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Creating Great Web Content for Libraries

Creating Great Content for Library Websites

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A presentation on taking a professional approach creating and maintaining content for library websites given at the NSW.net Seminar on 25 Oct 2011. In this presentation I talked about what libraries can learn about improving their content from the web design industry.

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Creating Great Web Content for Libraries

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Seeing the lightor, the getting of wisdom

picture credit: The light /La luz by SantiMB on Flickr

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http://boagworld.com/season/1/

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why have a website?

picture credit: Close up of the thinker by marttj on Flickr

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Goals

picture credit: 85/365: In Soccer We Trust... by Socceraholic on Flickr

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Objectives can be measured

picture credit: FAIL by amboo who? on Flickr

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Sign up n new members online each monthRaise the usage of electronic resources by n%

Offer an online alternative for  all in library services

generate 100 likes on our face book page by November 2011

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Don't leave your audience out in the cold to meet your goals

picture credit: Waiting in the cold by David Hofmann on Flickr.

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how do people use the web?

picture credit: Eyetracking test from Feng-Gui on boagworld.com

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Focus on the action

picture credit: Crosshairs by e53 on Flickr.

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2 simple questions

picture credit: Questions by Oberazzi on Flickr

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What is being offered?

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What is being offered?

How do I get it? 

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apple

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a 3rd question for good luck

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do we really need this page?

a 3rd question for good luck

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Human Beings will use this

picture credit: Ohio University's Alden Library Alice Catalog, 1983 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! by Ohio University Libraries on Flickr

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many images used in this presentation were obtained from flickr.com under a creative

commons license.

many thanks to all who make their photos available to others to build upon.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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@boycetrus

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