In Tearing Down Walls on Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog, Schwartz writes that IBM has decided “to permit company employees to blog.” Jonathan Schwartz is president and chief operating officer for Sun Microsystems. That was only one wall that was torn down: The headline is about the forging of a business relationship between Sun and Microsoft.
Schwartz provides a link to the Sun Policy on Public Discourse, which he encourages IBM employees to use as a guide. Since blogging is increasing among librarians who are acting as employees, these guidelines may be of interest to libraries and professional information organizations.
Someone asked me where they could learn CSS. The following have easy to understand, well-organized online tutorials.
W3Schools.com - http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
EchoEcho.com - http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm
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Everyone should have a little knowledge about Open Source. In Computers in Libraries there is a nice overview with links to organizations that are helping libraries understand Open Source software: There’s No Need to Fear Open Source. (2005, May). Vol.25 No. 5. Balas writes, “According to the OSI Web site, governments as well as public sector and nonprofit organizations are beginning to utilize OS software. Some libraries have already begun this process, and the oss4lib (open source systems for libraries) site documents these efforts.”
[Via O’Reilly OSDir.com, Linux & Open Source News from Across the Community]
