EDUCAUSE 2014

Brian Farr and I will be discussing our library website rebuild and the ins and outs of successfully using Wordpress as a CMS at this year's EDUCAUSE conference in Orlando, Florida. We'll be presenting at 2:30pm on Tuesday, in Meeting Room W311F-H. [Tuesday schedule]

Our talk, Building Academic Websites (in the Real World) will also be webcast, so if you'll be attending the virtual conference, you can catch us there too!



As usual, I'll include links to any of the resources we talk about, and try to keep the list updated as new topics or questions arise:

• List of Helpful WordPress Resources
• Tutorial for using scripts to add functionality to Google Forms

And, because animated gifs don't work in slideshare, here's the run-through of the evolution of the new site. Agile development FTW!

Google Drive for Libraries @ SLA-NY

I'll be speaking at the 2014 SLA NY Conference & Expo (9:15, Social Media track) on Thursday, 9/18/14, at Baruch's Vertical Campus in Manhattan, on the topic of Google Drive for libraries and information professionals. The hashtag is #slany if you'll be there and want to share your experience on Twitter.



Some links and resources I'll be talking about include -

Google Drive "Hacks":

• About Optical Character Recognition in Google Drive
• Creating self-grading quizzes with Google Forms & Flubaroo
• Creating a Leaderboard using Google Docs
• Hacking Google Forms with Google App Script

Google Drive Encryption Tools:

• Boxcryptor
• Tresorit
• CloudFogger
• Viivo
• CryptSync

Google Drive and Privacy:

• Google Drive Terms of Service
• Google Drive Privacy Policy

I'll also be talking about Google Drive in my book, "Library Knowledge Bases Made Easy", which will be published by Rowman & Littlefield some time in 2015, so look out for that! ;)