{"id":4079,"date":"2012-04-14T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2013-09-05T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T13:28:02","slug":"ala-connect-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/ala-connect-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA Connect and You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you checked out ALA Connect<\/a> lately?\u00a0 If you have worked on a committee for ALA or ALSC, you may have posted documents online or posted comments but are you aware of some of the other possibilities offered?<\/p>\n

On ALA Connect you can create a profile, find co-workers, friends, and colleagues and network, too. You can also find committees, round tables, or communities that may be of interest to you.\u00a0 By choosing to follow communities or interest groups, you can receive updates to their posts as well as share information.\u00a0 The Children and Technology Committee have decided to begin posting websites, apps, ideas and other items of interest on our Interest Group<\/a> page.\u00a0 Anyone can choose to follow this page, so if you have an interest in technology as it relates to children\u2019s services, or if you have a question or ideas for the committee, become a voice in this useful forum.\u00a0 Another fun community to check out is Library Boing Boing<\/a>.\u00a0 Not finding what you want?\u00a0 You can always create your own member community.<\/p>\n

If you are working on a committee, ALA Connect<\/a> is also a good place to collaborate or set up online meetings.\u00a0 Not only can you upload documents, spreadsheets, pdfs and many other tools, you can also create online docs that can be collaborated on.\u00a0 Another useful feature is the online chat.\u00a0 The Children and Technology Committee have been using this feature to meet twice a month.\u00a0 Chats are then archived so you are able to go back and review what was talked about.\u00a0 You can also create polls for members to vote on.<\/p>\n

This post is by no means a comprehensive list of the functionality of ALA Connect.\u00a0 Rather, a hope that it gives you some ideas about how you can begin to work with your fellow colleagues on Connect.\u00a0 Also, it should be mentioned the there will be an update soon with the layout that will make the site even more user friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you checked out ALA Connect lately?\u00a0 If you have worked on a committee for ALA or ALSC, you may have posted documents online or posted comments but are you aware of some of the other possibilities offered? On ALA Connect you can create a profile, find co-workers, friends, and colleagues and network, too. You can also find committees, round tables, or communities that may be of interest to you.\u00a0 By choosing to follow communities or interest groups, you can receive updates to their posts as well as share information.\u00a0 The Children and Technology Committee have decided to begin posting websites, apps, ideas and other items of interest on our Interest Group page.\u00a0 Anyone can choose to follow this page, so if you have an interest in technology as it relates to children\u2019s services, or if you have a question or ideas for the committee, become a voice in this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[155,141,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-children-and-technology-committee","category-children-technology","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}