McGovern Tools is where we build smart tools and applications for delivery as a service over the web.
The engine room to McGovern Tools is fed by our understanding and engagement with the read/write/collaboration space known as Web 2.0. At its core we believe Web 2.0 to be more than a nice marketing phrase. For us it means joining in the opportunity to build rich, interesting tools and frameworks which put the user at the centre of their digital world. We are keen to be part of this world of possibility.
Tools for Human Use
Blogging
We have developed extensive expertise with blogging tools. As well as incorporating them into our content management system we have also developed expertise with many of the main open source blogging tools and systems.
Wordpress
We can customise Wordpress to your requirements, design your own skin, and also make it act as a small web site with a content management tool set which makes it simple for you to add and maintain your own content.
Website for Jason Books built on the
Wordpress platform.
The Fitch
The Fitch is a combination of wiki, tagging, rss and web services designed to give a client group the ability to share and develop their own knowledge basis. As of May, 2008 we have developed three versions of this tool.
Library Fitch
This version of the Fitch gives the public library a tool to capture and share the questions and responses of the reference librarian and the customer. It models each question and answer in a wiki – collects keywords which describe the topic, and then converts the same into a rich tagging tool which shows the pattern of questions and answers as a folkloric cloud.
The Fitch is currently in use in the following New Zealand Public Libraries:
Auckland City Libraries
Christchurch City Libraries
Dunedin City Libraries
Hutt City Libraries
North Shore City Libraries
Puke Ariki
Any Questions Fitch (Many Answers)
The current Any Questions site (developed by the National Library) gives New Zealand students the chance to talk to a librarian in a real time chat session. The librarian can also take the student on a mediated journey though the web in search of the answers to their questions. The best of these sessions are stored as a FAQ Knowledge Base.
The Fitch has been customised for Any Questions requirements and branded as "Many Answers" to replace the current FAQ database of the Any Questions website.
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Enterprise Fitch
We have developed a version of the Fitch can be used as part of an intranet.