{"id":40,"date":"2006-08-11T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/what-i-learned-during-the-multa-project\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T12:38:00","slug":"what-i-learned-during-the-multa-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/what-i-learned-during-the-multa-project\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned during the MULTA project."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at the MULTA<\/a> project wrap up meeting<\/a> I listed 10 things that I learned during the MULTA project.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>An image I used to encourage staff to take part in the project.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n


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\n1. Forums are probably not the answer to internal communications that I thought they’d be.<\/p>\n

<\/span>2. Blogs are not online journals. They are just a convenient way to make a web site and can be used as an OPAC, a review site or a regular web site.<\/p>\n

<\/span>3. Blogs are most useful if they have an RSS feed and are part of a network of bloggers with an interlacing comments culture.<\/p>\n

<\/span>4. Wikis are easy and useful, and make me more inclined to share what I know.<\/p>\n

<\/span>5. Wikis need wiki gardeners.<\/p>\n

<\/span>6. A large proportion of the people who will enter first year Uni in five years use MySpace today.<\/p>\n

<\/span>7. If you expect your site to be used one way, users will probably find a way to use it that suits their needs (eg. Flickr started as a photo sharing site, but is now used a place to upload images for blogging). I think this is true of our library web site – our users probably don’t use it in what we see as the best possible way.<\/p>\n

<\/span>8. If you know enough about the layer underneath your web site, there are great new tools that allow you to do amazing things if you have the skills.<\/p>\n

<\/span>9. Social tagging can’t be explained in just one session.
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\n10. Many library staff have secret talents that blogging brings out.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to see more about what happened each week at MULTA, you can visit our weekly recap<\/a> page.
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