Thursday, March 5, 2009

Welcome to the TI Blog

The first meeting of the Tech Illuminati group was held on March 5, 2009. Meeting minutes:

Tech-Illuminati Meeting Minutes - March 5, 2009

Attendees: Darren, Mary, Nancy, Tim

New Group's Goals

* Technology Interface: The group is to act as the conduit between the Library staff and the wider world of technology.
* Increased online presence: Raise the Library's Internet profile through social networking, targeted blogs, vlogs, podcasts, vlogcasts and wikis. Determine how to best incorporate user created content into the Library's online experience.
* Revamp the Library's databases: re-organizing, and promoting the Library's databases in functional categories.

Blog and Wiki

* The group's blog address is: http://techilluminati.blogspot.com/
username = techilluminati@gmail.com
password = koalabearhat
* The group's wiki address is: http://techilluminati.pbwiki.com/
username = techilluminati@gmail.com
password = koalabearhat
* Feel free to post to the blog and edit the wiki often, the more information and collaboration we have the better off we'll be.

Projects

* Mary will analyze databases and organization from a teen perspective.
* Nancy will work on re-categorizing databases and brainstorming Meebo.
* Darren will talk to Gail about Gale databases, and research an e-mail distribution list.
* Tim will review databases and attend a "Facebook in the Library" presentation on March 18.

Next Meeting

* Thursday, March 26 @ 2:00 p.m.

Next Meeting Agenda Items

* Review the Library's blog presence.
* Review databases and categories
* Social networking ideas.

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