[Web4lib] suggestion box/blog

[Menk, Robert]

We use a MovableType plugin called MTEntryPost (http://mt-hacks.com/entrypost.html) which lets users without a blog login, (and no one but library staff have blog logins), to create an entry in a suggestion box blog. The entries are vetted by library staff before they appear. Responses etc. are done using the normal entry commenting tools.

Since we're a secure government site and everything is behind a firewall, we don't have to worry too much about frivolous posts.

Using a blog dedicated to being a "Suggestion Box" gives users a place to comment on any aspect of our library, whereas just relying on comments on any given blog entry tends to tie the context to the subject matter of that entry .

Bobb Menk
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Library

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ranti Junus
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:44 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] suggestion box/blog

I'm curious to know the purposes of the suggestion box/blog compare to the already available comments/feedback form.


thanks,
ranti.


On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:06 PM, McHale, Nina <nina.mchale at cudenver.edu> wrote:
> Hey, all,
>
>  I've beeen charged to create a "suggestion box/blog" by my admin folks.
>  Anybody doing anything cool along those lines? We already have a news
> and events blog, and patrons often post comments to this. We also have
> a  somewhat rarely used (twice a month?) comments/feedback form.
>
>  Nina
>
>  Nina McHale, MA/MSLS
>  Assistant Professor, Web Librarian
>  Auraria Library
>  http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~nmchale/
>
>  Serving the University of Colorado Denver,  Metropolitan State
> College of Denver,  and the Community College of Denver
>
>  1100 Lawrence Street
>  Denver, Colorado 80204
>  303-556-4729


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