'user experience' Category
GAFYD - early notes from an administrator
My organization of approximately 13o users has been “live” on the Premium edition of Google Apps for Your Domain for several weeks now. Overall, I’m pleased with our transition from another hosted mail service. We moved with minimal disruption. Though we provided less hands-on training than I would have liked, staff seem to have taken [...]
A busy week: fiber, GYFYD
I haven’t written much lately, partly because I have been very busy with some exciting new initiatives at work, and partly because I’ve been lazy.
Today we lit a fiber optic connection between our Hamilton buildings (Hamilton Lane Library and our Admin Center.) A building formerly limited in bandwidth by a single T-1 line (1.54mb) [...]“What are you, an arcade?”
Earlier this year, at our second-busiest building, the supervisory staff made a somewhat controversial decision to disallow access to “gaming” sites on our public computers. We accomplish this through our content filter, setting access to sites classified as GAMES to “disallow”. This seems counter to the “Library 2.0″ and “teen outreach” themes en vogue these [...]
Do you like people? Do people like you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrrZpbvI20
It would be fun if we could to make the music from this intro start playing every time a librarian approaches someone to offer assistance.
Time waits for no one in Tampa
A friend alerted me to an unintentionally silly newspaper column in Tampa about time limits on library computers.
“My heart began to thump, and I even felt my hands begin to tremble. I walked up to the lady at the desk to confess, and she sent me to a young man at the desk adjacent to [...]iPud
I recently purchased a 1st generation refurbished iPod Nano for about $100. I think it is my first Apple product since an old Apple II+ in the early 80s. I like it. It is loud, which is good for when I’m mowing. The click-wheel, I think I’m competent with it now. Pretty simple. I love [...]
