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Agenda for Aug 20 meeting with Jeff

Note taker? Time keeper?

Recommendation Highlights  – 10 minutes

1. Parature recommendation

2. Key concepts as shown in contents

3. One blog concept with trust and openness as design basis

Developments in media services and their impact on our project – 5 minutes

Recommendation discussion – 30 minutes

What message is Jeff going to take to ADs? Identify, clarify. – 10 minutes

Agenda 8/19

Proposed agenda for 8/19 (feel free to edit as needed)
Meeting to start at 10:15 in Lib 221 (if available)
Meeting notes:?
Moderator: Elin
Doreen will be out

Updates or announcements?
Web makeover – Drupal training
Timeline
Library Forms
Student Survey
IA – Offices and Surveys
AD meeting report

Team approves Recs doc, prepares for meeting with sponsor
Possible further discussion of meetings with PCs

Curricular Technology on LIS site: A Proposal

Bryan and I were chatting after the last CT meeting.  Bryan had an interesting idea for how Curricular Technology documentation could be aggregated on the LIS site.  We both agreed that we need more than simply a list of links to documentation sites.  Instead of just links, we should have some explanation of the resource/site being linked to, some sort of abstract describing that resource/site.

Bryan suggested that rather than writing abstracts just for the CT landing page, we could pull in actual content from those resources using the Drupal Views module.  Essentially, if I follow Bryan’s explanation (see whiteboard diagram), each CT resource would defined as a particular content type which the views module could be configured to fetch from that source, be it WordPress, Segue, eRes or Drupal.

Eating our own dogfood… yum

The current tagline for the Curricular Technology blog is “eating our own dogfood… yum.” I recently changed this from “That’s Team with a capital T, baby!” in consultation with Bryan Carson.

The phrase, eating one’s own dogfood is frequently used by technology companies to indicate that employees in these companies use the software they are developing.  This is done for various reasons including helping to test the software, gain familarity with the products being developed, expressing confidence in the product and so on.

Responding to the Curricular Technology Blog Tagline survey is a good example of eating one’s own dogfood.  The survey was created with Google Apps which we have used quite a bit in our team work.  The survey is essentially a form that is linked to a spreadsheet.  It’s a great way to quickly gather information from others and can evolve as responses come in.  For example, as others submit tagline suggestions, the form can be updated to include these new suggestions and also people to rate them.

Reseach: Twitter plugins for WordPress

The Helpdesk received a request for a WordPress Twitter plugin.  If we decide it would be good to have such a plugin, what kind of functionality would useful for the Midd community.  See:

http://blueprintds.com/2009/01/19/top-twitter-wordpress-plugin-roundup/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/04/10-best-twitter-tools-for-wordpress-blogs/

Offices & Services Information Architecture

You can read the full first draft of the O&S IA in this Word document. This section is where most of the links to LIS and LIS related services will be. There will very likely also be a link to the LIS landing page in the Quick Links section of the footer, since Mike Roy wants there to be. Look over the full list in the document and add to the comments if there are any sections (with regard to LIS) that you think are misplaced, missing, or should be removed. For example, I see a link to “Web Services” in the list. My workgroup has a site on the website, but there’s very rarely any useful information for us to add to the site. I don’t think Web Services needs a web presence, since the whole site really is my group’s web presence. Also, I think the LIS link under Technology is redundant since every other link under Technology goes to an LIS maintained site about Technology.

What else?

Here is a list of the LIS related links I found in each section:

Academic
Library & Information Services

Campus Life
Digital Music

News & Information
Web Services

Technology
Banner Web
Help & Support
Library & Information Services
Segue
Telephone Services
WebMail