....and we're BACK!

Well, after a LOONG...we'll call it a sabbatical...I'M BACK!  Lots to talk about so stay tuned!

Designing the Digital Experience and David Lee King

In David Lee King's book, Designing the Digital Experience: How to Use Experience Design Tools & Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love, he talks about designing websites that easily facilitate interaction, whether it be for for shopping, looking for information, researching or social interaction like many of us do on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. He talks about how to to design with the user in mind to easily facilitate a great (and we hope SUCCESSFUL) experience through intentional design. "Experience design", a concept described by Nathan Shedroff, as the "sensation of interaction with a product, service, or event, through all of our senses, over time, and on both physical and cognitive levels." David Lee King introduces us to this concept through the digital experience in his book, where he also talks staging experiences and customer focus, and how to counter negative and neutral experiences into positive and memorable ones by turning ordinary websites into award-winning ones. You can buy his book from Amazon.com.


(Cover image from the davidleeking.com website)

SLA 2009, Washington, DC

SLA will hold its Annual Conference in Washington, DC USA at the Washington Walter E. Washington Convention Center 14-17 June 2009. The conference will create an environment for networking, communication, learning and other developmental opportunities for information professionals.

Keynote speakers include:

Colin L. Powell - Sunday, 14 June 2009
Opening General Session

Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Closing General Session Panel - Judy Woodruff will be moderating this closing session, with Robyn Meredith, Neil deGrasse Tyson and John Patrick, discussing leading topics of the future of their fields and information professionals.


Registration Information (see website for registration and fees)


See website for hotel information
(image courtesy of the SLA website)

Looking for a hotel in DC for SLA? Check out my Google Map with WMATA metro points for traveling on metro!

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Computers in Libraries Conference 2009

Computer In Libraries 2009 Conference begins this March at the Crystal City Hyatt Regency. The dates of the conference are March 30th- April 1, 2009. For groups rates, contact David White (800-300-9868).

March 30 - April 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway • Arlington, VA

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Check out the Conference at a Glance (pdf), and Register online

Flickr Goes Mobile

In a posting on the Flickr blog, Flickr announced accessibility several features and functions to Flickr from smartphones. This is the new version of their mobile site . Users will now be able to view Flickr videos on your mobile phone from today forward. These vids will be immediately viewable through the mobile site. As of today this particular feature is available to iPhone and iPod Touch users only, but it is expected to rapidly expand the number of devices that are supported by Flickr.

The activity stream now has more information in it, all synched to the settings you specify on the main Flickr site. You will be able to comment on and add as a favorite, photos from your mobile phone. Users will also be able to add and and manage contacts from their devices as well.

Flickr also has enhanced emailing photos from mobile phones to your Flickr account. also gets a little easier. Flickr upload email addresses are now a cinch to find and use. Just enter it in your address book under the name “Flickr”, then email Flickr whenever you shoot something interesting.

They've also made it very easy to browse recent photos added on Flickr, with search capability! Hows THAT for a Christmas gift! Thanks, Flickr!!!

(photo courtesy of Flickr.com