Just for fun, we thought it might be interesting to see the geographical distribution of the current NoodleTools subscribers in the United States. Each pin in this map represents one NoodleTools account (where an “account” could be a single school/university, a district, or even an entire regional consortium in some cases). Individual subscribers are not displayed on this map — these are only schools, districts, etc.

Debbie will be giving the keynote at this year’s Maryland Assoc. of School Librarians Conference, held on October 18th and 19th in Ocean City, MD.

http://www.mdedmedia.org/MASLConferenceFlyer2007Color.pdf

Debbie will also be presenting in a conference session: Beyond Cut and Paste (Session 2, conference room 5/6). In addition, Anita Anderson, media specialist at Thomas S. Wootton High School (MCPS), will be holding a session on… NoodleTools! That talk is being help during Session 3 in conference room 4.

While we’ve done a great job keeping the NoodleTools servers humming along even as Web traffic has increased exponentially over the past several years, sometimes something unexpected comes along that requires us to take the site offline. While infrequent, we know that this type of unexpected downtime can be frustrating (even on a Friday night, there is someone who needs access right now!).

When school sites are having trouble connecting to our Web site, they have difficulty determining whether the problem is on their side or ours. Even when planned maintenance was announced on the NoodleTools blog (make sure you’re subscribed, if you aren’t already!), users aren’t always aware of it (or just want to know when the site will be back online).

To solve this, we now have a separate Web site, www.noodletools.info, which indicates the current NoodleTools.com server status. NoodleTools.info is hosted on a different server than NoodleTools.com, so it will be accessible even when NoodleTools.com is not. If there is planned or unplanned downtime, the site will provide information and status details.

Bookmark it now!