The quarterly publication of the International Legal Technology Association
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format — which we are able to provide to our members on-demand. The free plan enables you to build up to three databases and two reports and to keep 1,000 records. Beyond that, if you want to store historical records (rather than exporting them), their plans are reasonable, starting at $25 per month. creator.zoho.com 2. ANIMOTO FOR SERVICES VIDEOS Animoto is a quick and free way to create snazzy video slideshows of photos, videos and captions — complete with soundtracks. Simply upload your photos or point to them on Facebook or other social networks, choose from 50 video styles, select your music track from a library of over 300 songs and Animoto does the rest. Your 30-second video can be shared on social networks and embedded into websites and blogs. Longer videos can be made with the paid plans that start at $30 per year, which also allow you to download video files to your computer. In our library, we created a video compilation of photos representing many of the services we offer at The New York Law Institute, and we have embedded it into our website at www.nyli.org/membership.aspx. www.animoto.com 3. MAILCHIMP FOR EMAIL LIST MANAGEMENT AND NEWSLETTERS MailChimp is an online application that allows you to set up robust email lists, complete with social profile information and historical data. You can create custom email campaigns or use predesigned templates. Each month, we send an email blast to all of our members about upcoming webinars we'll be giving. One of the best features of MailChimp is its extremely detailed reporting. After each mailing, MailChimp creates a report through which you can watch as individual people open the message and click on the links you included — in our case, links to the event registration page, our Facebook page and our Twitter profile. You also see how many of the messages bounced. The bounce report MailChimp provides lets us know who didn't receive our email and the reason why, such as a full mailbox or an incorrect or defunct email address. We're then able to determine whether the patron is still with their organization. We also use this email list as a way to keep track of how many active users we have, so when we negotiate for 60 Peer to Peer electronic resources licenses, we only pay for patrons actually using our resources. MailChimp is free for lists of up to 2,000 subscribers and for 12,000 email messages per month. www.mailchimp.com 4. CORAL FOR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CORAL is a free, open-source electronic resource management system created by the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries. It comprises four core modules which can each be separately installed: Resources, Organizations, Licenses and Reports. The modules are interoperable, so information can be linked between them (licenses for particular electronic resources, information about parent organizations, etc.). We chose to use this solution at NYLI because we wanted a way to keep track of all our electronic resource licenses and subscriptions, as well as have an automated email notification system for when licensing agreements were going to expire. CORAL allows you to keep track of acquisitions information, access details, contact information and issue history. You can also upload contracts, licenses and expressions — and keep track of routing or workflow for each resource. You can set up alerts to be issued any number of days in advance of subscription end dates. All data can be exported to an Excel spreadsheet. Since we did not have an in-house Web server that could be used for this, we signed up for a shared hosting solution for about $80 per year. CORAL offers a live demo for those interested in trying out the software before downloading and installing it. erm.library.nd.edu 5. YOUTUBE FOR TRAINING VIDEOS One of the best ways to teach someone how to use a website, database or software program is to show them in a screencast, which is a video that records all your actions on a computer screen. We have created several such videos at The New York Law Institute, some of which are meant only for our internal use (such as "Copyright Clearance and NYLI" and "How To Post to the NYLI Blog"), while others are meant for our patrons, such as "Finding Full-Text Committee Reports Online" and "All About eBooks at NYLI." We decided to use YouTube to host our videos because we were unable to host them ourselves and because we wanted to keep some of them private, while still having them online and easily accessible. YouTube allows users to upload both public and private videos that can be embedded into websites and intranets for free. They also provide statistics about views, engagement and demographics. See our public videos at www.youtube.com/user/ newyorklawinstitute. www.youtube.com 6. PBWORKS FOR A STAFF INTRANET PBworks is an online and easy-to-use wiki software program that lets users set up both public and private wiki spaces for free. A