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We'll be migrating over the old content this week, but all new posts are now over there, so click on through!

I did a few slides explaining where we're headed with "MY ALA" for the Executive Board session on January 11 and then again for the Web Advisory Committee meeting on January 14. PDF of the slides available here. There isn't much explanation on the slides themselves, so if you have questions, please leave a comment or email me at jlevine@ala.org .

Matt has counted up some statistics for some of the services ITTS provides, and there's more of pretty much everything than we would have thought. Since all new blogs and wikis get parked on Dreamhost, those sites have come online just within the last five months.

Not all of these installations are fully live yet (some have just been requested and are being configured by the owning unit), but it gives some sense of the direction in which ALA is moving. This also doesn't count blogs and wikis hosted offsite, since we have no way of tracking those.

Staff, please don't forget to link your sites from the Read Write Connect wiki so that members can find them. If you need help figuring out how to do this, please us know.

Wikis
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On wikis.ala.org: 74
On Dreamhost: 27
Total wikis: 101

Blogs
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On blogs.ala.org: 39
On Dreamhost: 19
Total blogs: 58

Lists on Sympa: 926

Courses on Moodle: 30

Online Communities by category
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ALA General: 57
Divisions: 197
Round Tables: 20

Total Communities: 274

For the first time and at member request, ITTS will be holding training sessions at the 2008 Midwinter Meeting. The sessions will be taught by Louise Gruenberg, ALA's trainer, over a period of several days in order to provide as many options as possible. From Louise:

"I will be at Midwinter teaching Collage classes and providing help sessions in Collage, MediaWiki and Online Communities from January 11 through the morning of January 16.

Interested member-volunteers can register using the link below, and should do so ASAP, as sessions will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Those whose registrations are accepted will receive confirmation emails from me.

Please note that members must bring their own wireless-ready notebook computers to class.

If you are an ALA staff liaison, please forward this email with the registration link below to members.

http://creator.zoho.com/itts/2008-midwinter-registration

Please note that we used Zoho Creator for the registration form because we needed something fast, so this part is a bit of an experiment. It's not ideal, as we can't make the form as usable as we'd like, but so far it seems to be working well. The biggest issue is that upon submission of your information, the "success" message flashes too quickly, so check your email for a confirmation before resubmitting your data. If you encounter any problems with the Zoho-based form, please let us know.

I can't believe Midwinter is already here - see you soon.