Postcards from the Cracker Coast

Is your organization struggling with policies for social media applications? Check out the post on Mashable entitled “Social Media Policies From 80+ Organizations.” If your governing body hasn’t brought this up yet, now would be a good time to start investigating.

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In the Open Source workshop on September 17 Nicole Engard provided dozens of free open source alternatives to software that libraries normally could not afford to buy. Here are just a few:

OpenOffice - office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more; great alternative to Microsoft office for your public access [...]

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September is Library Card Sign-up Month and the Bay County Public Library wants to make sure that all children in Bay County have the smartest card of all — a library card.
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Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more [...]

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Those of you who write blogs for your organization or your individual pleasure may want to check out this post from the Dragos Roua blog. This list of “100 Ways to Improve Your Blog” contains many valuable suggestions.

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