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One thing that Ning lets you do is add RSS feeds to your network. Currently, I have added two: 1) Library Journal news and 2) Del.icio.us bookmarks for the "Library 2.0" tag.

While the former is probably familiar to most of you, the latter may not be. Basically, del.icio.us is a social bookmarking tool where people can share bookmarks publically and/or read the book marks of other people who have chosen to share their bookmarks.

People can also "tag" a bookmark with a name fami… Continue

Thanks to Donna Bourne-Tyson, we have a new look. A nice foggy picture of Hubbards, NS is a great way to add an east coast flavour to the site. Thanks Donna!

That said, I don't want to be accused of being "Nova-centric." So, if you got a good picture you want to share, let me know and I'll create a banner out of it for a while. Or if you don't want me doing a hack job of your photo, why not just add it to your "photos" and share it to the front page.

I see that people have alre… Continue

If any of you follow my blog, you already know that I invite people to my test server to "play around" with Joomla, a popular open-source Content Management System. Basically, Joomla is a quick way to get alot of your functions typically desired in websites these days (RSS, blog-like posts, polls, other do-dads etc.).

It's also pretty neat that you can integrate MediaWiki into it as well.

Anyway, drop me a line if you want to play around with a CMS and see how it works fro… Continue