Comments on: Meebo Bar for Libraries

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:11:45 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:09:04 +0000

Emily, RSS is another option. You can set up an RSS button and have it feed from whatever source you want that has a feed, whether it’s your library’s blog or your new books.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:36:25 +0000

Is the Meebo bar customizable with RSS feeds? In other words, could I include a wordpress blog or something similar? Thanks for bring this to our attention, Andy.

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:47:00 +0000

Thanks Slaven! That’s really helpful. An optional toolbar could be a really cool feature for libguides. I can’t wait to hear if you decide to develop it.

By: Slaven Zivkovic

Slaven Zivkovic — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:22:00 +0000

Hello Aaron, Andy, and others;

Slaven Zivkovic, from Springshare (LibGuides/LibAnswers) here. Regarding embedding the meebo bar into LibGuides/LibAnswers, send us an email over at support and we will help you get it up and running.

Coincidentally, we have been toying with the idea of developing our own toolbar (very similar to meebo’s, conceptually) and while we haven’t made any decisions yet we are leaning in that direction so I think you can expect something from us in this regard in the next year.

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:18:00 +0000

I read your blog post Robin and it looks like a great experiment that you’re trying out! I hope that it allows you to help a lot of students and teachers at your school. It can be a really easy way to allow people to reach you instantly. Let me know how it works for you.

By: aarontay

aarontay — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 09:39:00 +0000

There are custom headers and footers that you can embed html on every page, so theoretically yes.

By: rcicchetti

rcicchetti — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:52:00 +0000

Thanks for posting. I found it really helpful and have added Meebo to our high school learning commons wiki (http://cchslearningcommons.concordcarlisle.wikispaces.net/) . Also blogged it to my school librarian network (http://concordcarlislelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/11/meebo-me.html)
Thanks again!

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 20:23:00 +0000

Oooh, I think that’s a great idea Aaron. A lib guide or subject guide would be a great place to use something like this. We are using wikis for ours. I may have to try experimenting with this there. Do Libguides allow that level of customization and control for adding a piece of javascript? I haven’t actually tried playing with them.

By: aarontay

aarontay — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:03:00 +0000

Yes very nice this Meebo Bar and similar tools, I’ve being toying with the idea as well. The obvious thing to do is to see if we can get this into our Libguides and LibAnswers page, currently I can’t figure it out yet.