October 25, 2006
IL06, Day 3 Confgrunt
Notes from Day 3 of Internet Librarian 2006
More raw notes from the conference... to be filled in further later...
Morning Keynote: Shari Thurow
Search Friendly Web Design
an engaging speaker, but a topic too focused for a keynote
- user-friendly web site design that can be easily found on both the crawler-based and human-based search engines
- 5 Basic Rules of Web Design: Easy to Read, Easy to Navigate (provides 'sense of place' and 'scent of information'), Easy to Find (externally and internally), Consistent in Layout & Design, and Quick to Fownload
people will click as long as they believe they're making progress
search engines as 3rd browser
- Search Engines do 3 things: index text, follow links, measure popularity
if you do not place text on your pages and create a site navigation scheme that crawlers can follow, your library site will not rank well in the search engines
need high quality links from 3rd parties
- Primary Text: title tags, visible body copy, text at top of page, in and around hypertext links
- Secondary Text: meta-tag content, alternative text, domain and file name
- MPABS: "most people are basically stupid" - you have to tell people what you want them to do on your site
- site map should provide context, have an intro paragraph
- Yahoo + Wikipedia = good high-quality links to get
- glossaries and dictionaries - especially illustrated glossaries - are good for rankings
- Gerald Spool, usability expert
- cross-linking
Session One: Trends in Mobile Tools and Applications for Libraries (B301)
Megan Fox, Simmons
http://web.simmons.edu/~fox/pda
Session Two: Training Tutorial Tour and Tips (C302)
Greg Notess
http://www.notess.com/teaching/
Session Three: What's Hot & New with Social Software (D303)
Stephen M Cohen
A quick A-Z of some of the current hot sites -- most of which I use, but I will definitely by checking out the Muppet Wiki ASAP!
A - Ajax
B - Beta, Browster
C - CoComment
D - Digg
E - Econsultant
F - Flickr
G - Gmail
H - Hype
I - Image Editors (resizr.lord-lance.com, pxn8.com, snipshot.com)
J - Jenny Levine
K - ?
L - Library Thing
M - Moo, Meebo, Media Convert, Mojeek, Muppets Wiki
N - Netvibes
O - OCLC
P - Pandora, PureVideo
Q - ?
R - RSS
S - Snapper (two sessions mentioned snapper -- I don't understand the appeal -- I absolutely LOVE FastStone capture and was going to mention it in the comments section of the talk but their site is temporarily down -- its SO much better and more flexible!) , Slideshare
T - Typo of the Day
U - utube (oops - they apparently got hammered after the YouTube acquisition)
V - ?
W - Wikis
X - ?
Y - YouTube
Z - Zoho
Session Four: Blogging Update: Applications & Tips (D304)
Walter Nelson, Karen Coombs, and Aaron Schmidt
Closing Keynote: Social Computing and the Information Professional (renamed All the World's a Game...)
Elizabeth Lane Lawley