28 Sep 06 Blogs & Wikis Updates – September 2006

Approximately 30 ALA staff attended a day-long two-part wiki presentation by Meredith Farkas of Norwich University. The morning session covered the “hows and whys” of using wikis to conduct ALA business. Three hands-on sessions were held in the training room in the afternoon. Staff practiced creating and maintaining wikis.

Recently added blogs include ACRL Effective Practices, Leads From LAMA, LAMA 50th Anniversary, and District Dispatch from the Washington Office. B2Evolution software is scheduled to be upgraded by the end of the month.

Recent wiki additions include Midwinter 2007, Online Communities Enhancements, Law for Librarians, and Interactive Web Applications (formerly Social Networking). We are looking into permissioning and bad behavior plug-ins for MediaWiki.