Monday, March 30, 2009

CIL 2009 Day 1 - Omnipresence Without Spending a Dime

This was a nice presentation with a few good ideas. Nina McHale from University of Colorado-Denver talked about putting "steal this code" blocks on your website for people to be able to drop catalog search boxes, chat boxes, etc. on their own pages to expend your online presence.

Curt Tagtmeier from Fremont Public Library District presented on how he used a free service called mobiSiteGalore to create a cell-phone friendly version of their website. It's certainly an idea worth considering for our own site, although we'd need to limit it to the core of the site and what someone would want to do on a phone. This mainly has traditional cell-phones in mind. Smart phones, like the iPhone, generally do a capable job of browsing normal websites.

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