Comments on: ALA invites member participation, sort of

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:04:21 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for that throwaway comment about Open Office – I Googled it, found it, and am now downloading. Very cool!

By: Jenny Levine

Jenny Levine — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:09:22 +0000

Okay, I made a bunch of changes that should improve usability on the blog, but please let me know if you think I’ve missed anything.

Also, I thought I should point out that while your concern about Word is valid, Windows folks can also download the Microsoft Word browser plugin for viewing documents. Not ideal, I know, but one more possible workaround that they’d have to manually install.

I think the major search engines do index Word documents and provide a “View as HTML” option in the results, which is good. It does not, however, help when searching using the blog’s search engine, which is bad.

However, I think you’ll see most, if not all, of the discussion take place on the blog now that it is ready.

By: Jenny Levine

Jenny Levine — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:52:50 +0000

Unfortunately, the blog went live before I was ready for it to. I just threw up a default skin, planning to make some changes, including the ones you list plus a couple of others. Now that the blog is being publicized, I’ll move that work up on my to-do list. :-p

Good to know my intent was on the right track. Thanks.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:28:54 +0000

It would also be nice if there were an “about” page, or a link to a static page that would tell me what the Member Participation Task Force is and how (and whether) I am supposed to participate. It would also maybe be nice to have the top part read “ALA Member Participation Task Force,” since at the moment the only place to find out that the page is related to ALA is by looking at the url.