Monday, October 3, 2011

LITA 2011 Day 2 - Lightning Talks


The lightning talks were interesting, although generally not applicable to my situation.  As lightning talks, they were very short, so at least I was able to hear a lot of different things that had limited applicability to my situation, than listen to one thing that had the exact same low level of applicability.
The first presentation was from Rice Majors from the University of Boulder who described his generally successful effort to loan out someone from his IT department to a different IT department on campus that had had a bumpy relationship.
Then Rebecca Fernandez from Midwestern State University discussed implementing a hosted service on Primo.
Next M Ryan Hess of DePaul University provided a talk that was somewhat intriguing to me about how he tested a theory about potential problems he was having with Google Analytics by implementing a browser cookie for tracking purposes for 3 months and then comparing that information with the information he was getting from Google Analytics.
Hannah Kim from Utah State University described her efforts to switch from a Drupal-based Intranet that wasn't being used and wasn't serving staff needs to an online course system that wasn't designed for Intranets at all but had the features she needed and, with some work, she was able to bend to her purposes.
Todd Vandenbark from University of Utah drescibed his using card sorts to update website navigation during a redesign process.
Finally, Annette Baily presented on the new release of a browser plugin called LibX that I hadn't heard of and that I thought sounded pretty interesting.  I think I'll have to look more into that and see if there's a way we can use it.

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