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News updates - April 2012

• In the Palm of your Hand: the Future for the Hand-Held Librarian
• A Free Web Toolkit for the Modern Library – a MMIT conference workshop promo video

News updates - March 2012

• SEO, Google and search algorithms : a quick look under the hood
• MmIT National Conference 2012 – find out more about the plenary and workshop sessions

News updates - February 2012

• Engage, review, repeat: Using metrics to improve your Twitter engagement
• MmIT Journal February issue now available
• Open Source news: FOSS4LIB launch and more

News updates - January 2012

• Booking is open for MmIT National Conference 2012
• Coding for Librarians : Applied knowledge is the best kind

News updates - December 2011

• MmIT journal pricing – 2012
• Claire Bell debates physical vs online conferences
• Battle of the CMSs: Drupal for libraries

News updates - November 2011

• Library news: a place to discuss the latest from the library world
• About the Koha decision, open source and trademarks
• Would you like a free pass to the EDGE2012 conference? Edinburgh, March 2012
• Battle of the CMSs: WordPress plugins and tools for libraries
• MmIT journal November issue now available

News updates - October 2011

• MMIT winner of Internet Librarian International free place
• Internet Librarian (non-International) presentations available
• WebGL Bookcase – Google’s interactive bookshelf experiment

News updates - August 2011

• August issue of the MmIT journal available
• Discounted places for Internet Librarian International

News updates - July 2011

We have made Jon Fletcher's article freely available to download and hope you will also get a chance to see his poster based on this article at Umbrella.

Mobile web vs apps: what’s right for your user? (extract from MMIT journal)

Jon is an active member of the MMIT Group committee and he and other committee members Catherine Dhanjal (journal editor) and Andrew Cox look forward to meeting Group members at Umbrella.

From the blog:

• Group To-Do Management Tools
• MmIT journal in print
• MMIT group at Umbrella 2011 – presentations now available
• Open Library – striving to provide a page on the web for every book ever published
• Getting started with APIs: using the Twitter API
• ‘Skypebook’ hits back at Google+: what does this mean for libraries?
• The story so far: Google+

News updates - June 2011

• World Map of Social Networks updated for 2011
• Data visualisation with Google fusion tables
• Getting started with Yahoo Pipes

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