Comments on: november round-up http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157 Laura Crossett on the LIS domain Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:35:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: laura http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3291 laura Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:28:29 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3291 Part of the reason I volunteered to make a website for the cap tax is that I come from places where the web is now the first place I look for information. I also thought it might reach a demographic that maybe wasn't looking at newspapers. I'm not sure if that's true--it's hard to get demographic data from website statistics--but at least a few people checked it out. We all read these reports from the Pew Internet & American Life project and think, "we must be online! everything must be online!" While the numbers certainly suggest that the majority are online, I think there are still a substantial number of people in the minority (which you realize if you live in places where that's true). And yeah, word of mouth is <i>huge</i>. I'm thankful that I work in the library, where many people come to socialize. I got a lot of local election information that way. Part of the reason I volunteered to make a website for the cap tax is that I come from places where the web is now the first place I look for information. I also thought it might reach a demographic that maybe wasn’t looking at newspapers. I’m not sure if that’s true–it’s hard to get demographic data from website statistics–but at least a few people checked it out.

We all read these reports from the Pew Internet & American Life project and think, “we must be online! everything must be online!” While the numbers certainly suggest that the majority are online, I think there are still a substantial number of people in the minority (which you realize if you live in places where that’s true).

And yeah, word of mouth is huge. I’m thankful that I work in the library, where many people come to socialize. I got a lot of local election information that way.

]]> By: Meredith http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3289 Meredith Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:51:21 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3289 Hey Laura! Where I live in Vermont is very similar in terms of their use of technology to access local information. Basically if I wanted to get information on candidates for our local elections, I'd better be looking in our local newspapers because there was next to nothing available online (the candidates didn't even have Websites). This is the sort of place where lots of information is still passed by word of mouth/town meetings and everyone still subscribes to the local newspaper. It's good to know your audience... this definitely isn't a bloggy sort of town either. Hey Laura! Where I live in Vermont is very similar in terms of their use of technology to access local information. Basically if I wanted to get information on candidates for our local elections, I’d better be looking in our local newspapers because there was next to nothing available online (the candidates didn’t even have Websites). This is the sort of place where lots of information is still passed by word of mouth/town meetings and everyone still subscribes to the local newspaper. It’s good to know your audience… this definitely isn’t a bloggy sort of town either.

]]> By: Scott http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3251 Scott Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:35:33 +0000 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/157#comment-3251 Well, what an honor to be your sole incoming link! Thanks for the pingback to the post. I always enjoy local feedback (rare as it is :-) ) I was at the Park County GOP Election night party at the Holiday Inn and there was a good applause when it was announced that the Cap Tax had passed. It took some time for me to decide up or down on the tax, but I did ultimately decide yes (in spite of not being a fan of taxes), for the good of the library (did four years of library work at the college I graduated from). Well, what an honor to be your sole incoming link! Thanks for the pingback to the post. I always enjoy local feedback (rare as it is :-) )

I was at the Park County GOP Election night party at the Holiday Inn and there was a good applause when it was announced that the Cap Tax had passed. It took some time for me to decide up or down on the tax, but I did ultimately decide yes (in spite of not being a fan of taxes), for the good of the library (did four years of library work at the college I graduated from).

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