February 14, 2007
Library Community Toolbar
Libraries Leap onto the Webtop with Conduit-powered Community Toolbars, Press release (Feb 13)
Here's a fantastic idea - provide a toolbar to your community to facilitate search, provide news feeds, open up chat with you, show the weather. Conduit makes it possible for free. About 300 libraries (presumably in the US) are using it.
"Conduit , a breakthrough marketing platform for creating community toolbars that drive traffic and loyalty, today announced the availability of Conduit for libraries. Libraries can launch a free community toolbar that delivers constant browser access to resources and services, and connects patrons to create vibrant online communities. Conduit is the first free, branded solution available to help libraries promote their services and resources all via users' browsers. Now patrons, including research professionals, students and enthusiasts, are interacting with libraries in a whole new way."
Colorado State University library is given as one example.
The Management and Economics Library at Purdue University calls theirs MyMEL.
There are more examples of organizations using the Conduit toolbar under testimonials at Conduit .
The toolbar searches Google and has Google ads.
Posted by Gwen at February 14, 2007 11:55 AM