Demofuse.com – Create Interactive Website Tours And Demos Create a tour of your website that will walk your visitors through it, while it highlights features of the site and tells them what they need to know to get the most out of your site. No software to download and tours start with a click on [...]

If you’re giving a talk and you aren’t sure if there will be Internet access, powerpoint slides are a popular alternative/backup plan. However, I don’t like powerpoint because I tend to show a lot of websites and the transition from powerpoint to browser is distracting and usually an uncomfortable break in the talk. Screenshots work [...]

COPPUL Animated Tutorials Sharing Project Recognizing that creating and updating Tutorials for each online resource is a daunting task for any library to undertake on its own, librarians in COPPUL got together to find a way to share in their development. This project is an outgrowth of that initiative and our goal is to create [...]

What’s Jabber? It’s an open instant messaging protocol. Huh? You don’t need to know. So I Care Because…? Kids and Teens prefer IM to email. IM is interesting in that it’s more casual than email, you know whether or not the person is there by the away message so you can get an immediate response. [...]

This was the answer to a problem of mine. I like it because it keeps the website dynamic and interesting while also providing a service to my users by aggregating content of interest to them. The Problem I manage the website of a local non-profit group. There is a section of the frontpage set aside [...]

Stephen Downes writes about blogs as educational tools in Educause. I highly recommend you read it for yourself because it’s very well-balanced and insightful. I couldn’t resist including some of my favorite bits below. …the events of September 11 brought home to me the immediacy of blogging. We ran ongoing coverage, submitted via SMS to [...]

You’ve no doubt heard of them on your email lists, you may even have seen them in your favorite print publication. But what is a blog and why are they such a big deal?

Syndication is the direction web information management is headed in. Just by starting my aggregator I can check over a hundred websites, including those for the intranet at my library, the news section at my school, several organizations I am member of, and my friends sites, to see if any changes have been made and [...]

There was a request on one of the mailing lists for examples of well-designed library pages. I thought that I would put the links up here for further inspiration along with my own comments as a web-surfer.

RSS stands for either “Rich Site Summary”, “RDF Site Summary” or “Really Simple Syndication,” depending on who you ask. There are long, technical explanations for RSS but it’s more easily explained by what it can do than what it is. Essentially, you can download an aggregator and use it to keep track of the updates [...]