Category Archives: publishing

Mini presentation on Web 2.0 technologies

robinna/ August 21, 2007/ software, Libraries, publishing, social media, semantic web, Design, my projects, Scripting, XHTML/XML/CSS, Training, web 2.0+, networking/ 0 comments

Overview What we are doing IM External (Chat Ref) Internal (Serials, Ref) Blogs Del.icio.us The cataloging del.icio.us page has been up for about a month. We have 7 users linked to this page and we will be in a list of libraries using del.icio.us in Library Journal http://del.icio.us/url/db7b6b3059612ca00876d4a393f3747c Wikis External (FAQs) Internal (Reference, Serials Cataloging) Looking to the future Higher

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creating a e-zine — software choices

robinna/ August 13, 2007/ software, publishing, Design, CMS, my projects, webdesign, opensource, XHTML/XML/CSS, Training/ 7 comments

So you want to create an online newsletter, a magazine or e-zine? What should you use?There are many choices, some of which depend on budget size. My budget size= ZERO dollars.My investigation actually began in May with Drupal. These were reviewed as of August 2007. System requirements for most of these (but not all): Apache or IIS server; MySQL or

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creating a e-zine — lessons learned to date

robinna/ August 12, 2007/ software, publishing, CMS, my projects, webdesign, opensource, XHTML/XML/CSS, my art/ 0 comments

1. Have a vision.Check. I had that one a year ago (a regional arts magazine with topics both about art and by artists) 2. Funding.The amount of $ you have to spend will affect everything else 3. Hosting? Find a place to host it.I used some extra webspace I have. 4. A software list of features that you need (and

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looking for contributors

robinna/ July 22, 2007/ publishing, my projects, my art/ 0 comments

Okay, so I totally hope this is ACTUALLY going to greenlight this time. Sigh. Let’s not talk about the technical issues that have plagued this problem, mmm? ..looking for contributors for a new online arts, literary, & music magazine, moonshine (details follow).—————- … a few people who would be willing to write articles, essays, reviews, op ed pieces, entries,comics, whatever,

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the end is near? (well for web 2.0, etc.)

robinna/ July 7, 2007/ publishing, social media, twitter, life 2.0+/ 2 comments

On one list I read (sorry, I forgot which one) a user posted that they thought the term Web 2.0 would slowly fade away. As we all become more comfortable with the dynamic, interactive and user oriented technology on the web (my paraphrasing), Web 2.0 would just become the “web.” Thinking over all of the various technological advancements in modern

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my projects

robinna/ May 14, 2007/ publishing, Design, my projects, XHTML/XML/CSS, web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Ok, I realize I haven’t done a project update here in a while. so here goes (in addition to managing staff, project management, resolving complex problems, etc. in other words the day to day): Continuing work with the CRDL (Civil Rights Digital Library) in the portal design. I think the metadata issues have been resolved which now means it’s time

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