How To Go High-Tech On A Tight Budget

How To Be Your Own IT Staff

Maurice Coleman @baldgeekinmd

Robin Hastings @webgoddess

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Our Plans

Last Week we covered

Evaluate and manage open source

software solutions Use cloud services like Google and Dropbox to get the back-end tech work done for you Choose the technology will work for your library

This week we will show you how to..

Keep your technology running

smoothly and up to date with affordable resources

Find and use technology training at

little or no cost
Stay current with library technology in

efficient ways

Housekeeping

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IT Guy (or Gal) in a box

O u t s o u r c i n g

P r o s / C o n s

Save Utility Costs

P r o s

No daily on-site maintenance Can save money on licensing and upgrading costs

Give Up Control of Equipment Give Up Daily Control of Data Give Up Control of Customization And Upgrades

C o n s

Evaluate All The Things

Who is responsible? Where managed?

Email Document Storage/Backup Network Security

Do you need to keep these in-house?

Who is responsible? Where managed?

File Sharing Integrated Library System (ILS) Web Hosting

Do you need to keep these in-house?

Who is responsible? Where managed?

Training Hardware Network/Software

Do you need to keep these in-house?

Email and Storage

Data Security

Data Backup

Cloud/Partner Your ILS

Hosting Your Web Services

Training/Tutorials

Hardware Maintenance

Network Design

Network Maintenance

Changing To Gmail

Free (or cheap) Tech Ed

Networking with other IT Departments

Local Education

Regional/State/Multi-State Education

National Education

Virtual Education

How To Fix These From Your Desk

Managing Multiple Computers

Remote Access

Desktop Security

Best Practices

Evaluation Is Your Friend

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Maurice Coleman @baldgeekinmd

Robin Hastings @webgoddess

All images used by permission Resource Links: http://j.mp/alaht12