Team Miro

Hello world! This is PCF Summer Intern Chris reporting in for duty As Vilja mentioned in her last post, I’ll be posting here on a regular basis with details on all the fantastic developments we the Interns are cooking up.

I’m sure you’re all familiar with our section in the about page on the website, but I thought now would be a good time to tell you a little more about myself. I’m somewhat unique in our group in that my background is primarily in Screen Studies with a heavy dose of filmmaking on the side. Beyond that, I’m also a huge fan of this Internet thing and one of those kooky Web 2.0 Librarians in training (obligatory shout-out to Simmons GSLIS).

As hinted in a number of forum posts toward the end of our most recent Chat Event, we’re about ready to switch to GetSatisfaction, a new breed of problem-solving community oriented Webware, to replace our previous forums software.

If you’re a user of Twitter, you might already be familiar with the system, but for everyone else here’s a great page that explains how it works. And if you’re really interested, why not check out this New York Times article on the company as well.

Don’t worry about your pending question or comment stuck in the old forum software! It will still be available to our team of moderators as we make the transition. Overall, we hope this switch will enable us to better answer your questions, comments and suggestions – and we hope you’ll agree. Mick Jagger would be proud.