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							    The My Own Café project is a regional library
system information & entertainment portal for teens
          that offers one-stop service to:


•Statewide, Regional and Local Electronic
Databases
•Regional Announcements of YA Library
Programs & Local Community Events
•Immediate Access to Network’s Catalogs
•Online community
                         •
         MyOwnCafe.org Goals
• To more effectively publicize library resources to
  teens and families.
• To offer member libraries who lacked the funds
  or personnel to maintain a website that served
  the educational and recreational needs of 13-18
  year-old youth in the Southeastern
  Massachusetts Region.
• To create opportunities for teens to interact with
  library staff, initiate youth service program ideas
  and work with other local teens to develop a
  dynamic library community.
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The web developers
Teen participation
A Teen Advisory Group
 teens continued
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 a team blog.
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  Pixel Bridge Recommendations for
             My Own Cafe
• Messageboards as
  medium for teen
  interaction
• Downloadable music
• Community
  information
• College and job
  information
              Questions for us

• Would a library card be required for
  registration?
• How will local music be selected?
• Who will monitor the messageboards?
• Who will have administrative access to the
  site?
 The Name Game




MASSFeed
Initial Logos
     Technical Requirements
• Hosted off site on Windows 2003 server.

• DotNetNuke – open source content
  management system using ASP.NET

• 40 GB Hard Drive, 512 MB RAM, 50 GB
  maximum data transfer per month.
www.myowncafe.org

  It’s the library—only better.
                February 11 2006

Saturday Kickoff Festivities at Independence Mall
                in Kingston, MA
Librarian & Teen Collaboration
 in the Administration Process
Communication between librarian and teen
administrators is ongoing and frequent through
the use of our Administrative Forums sections.
Suggestions from My Own Cafe Users
 Have Led to Exciting New Features
Publicity Tools Developed by Teens
            Recent Statistics
• 326 registered teens as of April 16.

• 76 users (both teen and library staff) logged in
  702 times during March 2007.

• Nearly 11,700 posts on the boards since
  October 2005.

• Our top messageboard poster – Bookworm –
  has more than 1,600 posts.
     Participation Inequality
From Jakob Neilsen www.useit.net
• 90% of users are lurkers.

• 9% of users contribute from time to time,
  but other priorities dominate their time.
•
• 1% of users participate a lot and account
  for most contributions.
The Teen Perspective
My Own Café 2.0

   What next?
           Lessons Learned
• Teens are comfortable in an online form,
  but face-to-face is still important.

• Teens will take responsibility for their own
  community if you let them.

• You can never budget too much money for
  publicity.
                Questions?

          www.myowncafe.org
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