Handy Points

I thought the readings for this week were incredibly helpful. They were to the point and each identified several things to look out for and make sure to include when trying to sell social software to the library. I really liked the information about working with IT. I agree that it is important to include them from the beginning. First because they are the one's that know whether or not something will actually work and second because they will have ideas that we may not have thought of. Creating something new and useful for the library requires individuals coming together to share ideas and re-working the ideas once changes and problems have come up. Knowing the technology you are going to propose is important, but so is getting varying points of view from the library staff. Those different points of view will bring up things that no one has thought of and new ways to make something work, or overcome a roadblock.