WordPress and eBook Webinars

WordPress for Library Websites
Presented by Polly-Alida Farrington
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST

REGISTER:
http://bit.ly/v1h5aI

Does your organization need a new web site? One that is more dynamic, easy to update and can easily incorporate social media and other ways to communicate with your library’s patrons/customers? WordPress (free, opensource) may be the answer. WordPress is a powerful web Content Management System (CMS) that has grown far beyond its origins as a blogging tool.

WordPress can be used to power your library website and help you build a dynamic web presence for your library, school, personal web site, business or other project. Its ease of use and flexibility make it a perfect choice for libraries that are struggling to keep their websites up to date and/or looking for a more up-to-date look for their website. Its extensibility via plugins and other customizations make it a great choice for more complex sites as well.

This webinar will cover:

• Examples of sites built with WordPress
• Why WordPress is a great choice for schools & libraries
• Hosting options and requirements
• WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
• Making it look great: Themes
• Building blocks of WordPress: Posts & Pages
• and more!

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Ebooks, Discovery, and the Library
Presented by Kate Sheehan
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. EST

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http://bit.ly/tcUXP6

Publishers, authors, booksellers, and librarians have traditionally thought of discovery as something that happens in a physical place. A patron browses the shelf, a librarian offers some reader's advisory, a new author is picked up from an artfully created display. Online discovery lags behind, despite Amazon's best efforts. People still pick books up based on word of mouth. Libraries, with entire sections of staff devoted to helping people pick out books, are word of mouth engines, but struggle to prove our worth to the rest of the book ecosystem. Ebooks make that even more difficult when the library as place is taken out of the equation. This session will explore some possibilities for libraries as channels of discovery in an ebook-dominated market.

Archived Webinars: Georgia Library Association

The Georgia Library Association has renamed their Wednesday webinar series to honor Pat Caterette. The Carterette series of the GLA has put up an archive of previous webinars and has been added to the "Webinar Providers" list on this blog.

Some recent topics:

• Strategy for Blogging and Social Networking
• Branding and Influence: Establishing your Digital Identity and Reputation
• Building Library Websites with Weebly
• Choosing Technology: How We Decide What Technologies Work Best in Our Libraries
• Personal Knowledge Management: A Framework for Librarians
• How e-Books, File Types, and DRM Affect Your Library?

What Technologies Work Best in Libraries?

Wednesday, January 19, 10:00am

Choosing Technology: How We Decide What Technologies Work Best in Our Libraries

(Georgia Public Library Service)

In today's environment librarians are constantly bombarded with new and emerging technologies. These technologies can run the gamut from smart phone applications to enterprise-wide systems. How can we decide which technologies are the best, which ones to keep an eye on, and which ones to avoid? During this session we will talk about decision making and apply it to technology.