[Webpub] Thalia needs usability volunteers

[Janet Riley Bowker]

Hi everyone,

The Thalia team would like to invite you to help us with testing Thalia.

Thalia is a great way to store, organize, and share images.  We're 
finishing the pilot phase next month, and will soon open the service to 
departments, labs, and projects. Many projects have images that don't 
fall in the categories of teaching/learning or scholarly archives.  
Thalia is a tool to manage those collections.

Could we interest you in donating an hour of your time to come in and 
test Thalia for us?

We are looking for 16 volunteers for usability testing.  Testing will 
take place this coming week on Tuesday, January 29th and Wednesday the 
30th at the Usability Lab in N42. Sessions last an hour. Time slots are 
available beginning at 10AM and ending at 5PM. This is a great time to 
get to really use Thalia and to tell us what you think should be 
added.   It's also a chance to  experience  usability testing, if you 
haven't worked with the Usability Lab before.

Please contact Cassandra Boell (boell at mit.edu),  if you'd be willing to 
come out to test Thalia for an hour and help us make Thalia better.

Lisa, do you take volunteers for monthly webpub topics?  I'd be happy to 
do one in May.  By then we'll have a few months experience with bringing 
customers in, and we'll have a sharper sense of what issues and 
questions customers should consider.  We've learned a lot from our pilot 
customers, but we'll learn even more as Thalia ramps up.

Regards-
Janet


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Janet Riley Bowker
617.324.5963 
ISDA/IS&T
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue,  W92-114
Cambridge, MA 02139