InfoSoup Development Blog

What do you think about creating a MySpace page for InfoSoup? Lots of libraries are creating pages there (see examples below), and even Wisconsin's AskAway has joined the fray. The average age of MySpace users is 25 and older, with only 12% of their users representing the teen population these days. Seems like a demographic we should be connecting with!

If any InfoSoup libraries have their own MySpace accounts, we could add them to our "Friend Space" to get more traffic to their pages and services. Let me know what you think, so I'll know if I should experiment or not. Thanks!

MySpace Library Examples:

• Hennepin County Library


• Winnefox Library System


• AskAway Wisconsin


• Thomas Ford Memorial Library


• Nancy Pearl

As many of you may have noticed already, Community Reviews was installed in InfoSoup by Innovative last Tuesday. The design and styling have been applied and patrons can currently add reviews. HOWEVER, we are currently unable to access the reviews to moderate them and add appropriate reviews that have been contributed. We are working with Innovative to get access to the management info, but are still waiting for help.

Because of this, we did not announce Community Reviews to you or to patrons via InfoSoup, as we don't want a lot of people trying to add reviews that we can't get to and have them getting frustrated that their reviews aren't showing up in the catalog. Once we have access to the management info, we will announce the new service on the InfoSoup homepage and will also provide a brief screencast for how to add reviews.

If you have any questions about this, please contact Beth. Thanks for your patience!

Unfortunately, the problem we have with not being able to access the community reviews management info (where submitted reviews get approved for posting) is a bigger problem than we thought. Innovative is working on it, but is having trouble figuring out what's going on.

So! We had to temporarily disable the community reviews feature in InfoSoup, as we don't know when this issue will be resolved. Our apologies for this inconvenience to you and your patrons!

Please contact Beth if you have any questions.