Jim Rettig’s Travel Schedule for 2008/2009
My director, Jim Rettig, is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association. I had the idea of creating a mashup of his travel itinerary for the year to help the library community visualize where he’ll be appearing over the course of the next year. The result is below.
Here’s a link to the full version on Google Maps: http://snurl.com/29z6i
To accomplish this, I created a dedicated calendar in Google Calendar, fed the xml data from the calendar into a custom Yahoo! Pipe, and then exported the KML data back to Google Maps.
Props to the team at Lifehacker for picking up on a post of how to do this!
Friday TechTip - Digital Photo Rodeo, Pt. 1
This week’s tip that I’ve sent out to our staff focuses on digital photo management. Now that warm weather is here, I’m sure more people will be breaking out their digital camera for vacations, cookouts, family gatherings, etc.
Check it out at my *other* blog.
- Friday TechTips