the my own café project is a regional library system information & entertainment portal for...
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The My Own Café project is a regional library system information & entertainment portal for teens that
offers one-stop service to:
•Statewide, Regional and Local Electronic Databases•Regional Announcements of YA Library Programs & Local Community Events•Immediate Access to Network’s Catalogs•Online community
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MyOwnCafe.org Goals
• To more effectively publicize library resources to teens and families.
• To offer member libraries who lacked the funds or personnel to maintain a website that served the educational and recreational needs of 13-18 year-old youth in the Southeastern Massachusetts Region.
• To create opportunities for teens to interact with library staff, initiate youth service program ideas and work with other local teens to develop a dynamic library community.
Teen participation has been critical at every stage of the project
The web developers conducted teen surveys and focus groups before making recommendations.
Between meetings, teens continued participation through a team blog.
A Teen Advisory Group met in person and via chat during the site’s development.
Pixel Bridge Recommendations for My Own Cafe
• Messageboards as medium for teen interaction
• Downloadable music• Community
information• College and job
information
Questions for us
• Would a library card be required for registration?
• How will local music be selected?• Who will monitor the messageboards?• Who will have administrative access to the
site?
The Name Game
SkoopJolt
MASSFeed
Frizz
CranialCaffeine
CerebralCafe
Teenology
Initial Logos
Technical Requirements
• Hosted off site on Windows 2003 server.
• DotNetNuke – open source content management system using ASP.NET
• 40 GB Hard Drive, 512 MB RAM, 50 GB maximum data transfer per month.
www.myowncafe.org
It’s the library—only better.
February 11 2006
Saturday Kickoff Festivities at Independence Mall
in Kingston, MA
Librarian & Teen Collaborationin the Administration Process
Communication between librarian and teen administrators is ongoing and frequent through the use of our Administrative Forums sections.
Suggestions from My Own Cafe Users Have Led to Exciting New Features
Publicity Tools Developed by Teens
Recent Statistics
• 326 registered teens as of April 16.
• 76 users (both teen and library staff) logged in 702 times during March 2007.
• Nearly 11,700 posts on the boards since October 2005.
• Our top messageboard poster – Bookworm – has more than 1,600 posts.
Participation InequalityFrom Jakob Neilsen www.useit.net
• 90% of users are lurkers.
• 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.
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• 1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions.
The Teen Perspective
My Own Café 2.0
What next?
Lessons Learned
• Teens are comfortable in an online form, but face-to-face is still important.
• Teens will take responsibility for their own community if you let them.
• You can never budget too much money for publicity.
Questions?
April Guest Login
User Name: guest
Password: daffodil
www.myowncafe.org