CIL2009: links, thoughts, and presos of note
Earlier this week, i went to the 24th annual Computers in Libraries conference with the intention of absorbing as much information as possible and networking my voice raw. Mission accomplished:==Websites / webtools to check out==
This list is the best (in my opinion) from Aaron Schmidt's "Best of the Web, Steven M. Cohen's "What's Hot in RSS," and the 40+ cool tools for webmasters presos:
Information Resources
- search.twitter.com - search the knowledge of the people, the hive mind
- YouTube's EDU channel (great for searching, too!)
- A "youtube" for PDF docs
- Washington Post's Votes Database
- Feed for bills, issues, committees, etc
- Federal Disctrict Court filings and docets
- Documents that lawyers put up on the Web
- SendUIt - temporary doc storage for our customers who need stuff and dont have (or want to give us their emails)
- Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page. Great for getting someone to pay attention to something specific instead of saying, "go to this url, go halfway down the page, check out the 2nd paragraph..."
- Backup URLCreates a cached copy of a URL in case it goes down
- Jing - still and video screen capture software (i <3>
- Today's Meet - creates a temporary online space where people can meet and chat. huge potential for library customers
- Google Forms - create a web form easily with this tool and copy and paste the code into your own site, and the data goes to a Google Spreadsheet. Aaron has used it to create a quick and easy sign-up form for Summer Reading. We used it to capture the stories for our Story Campaign.
- http://www.mindmeister.com Online collaborative mind mapping
Webtools for Webmasters
- Layouts for websites/blogs
- web accessibility eval tool
- http://www.lovelycharts.com - make charts, easy
Analytics
Personal/Professional Development
- TED Talks - free access to great thinker's the world over
- Journal Table of Contents service: get a feed of a journal's newest TOC
Creating a Knowledge Commons
Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution was the keynote on Wednesday morning. He spoke of creating a commons; the sharing and collaboration of human knowledge and innovation. Check out the Travelin' Librarian for video and ppt slides of Michael's keynote.
Michael Edson, Director of Web and New Media Strategy at the Smithsonian Institution was the keynote on Wednesday morning. He spoke of creating a commons; the sharing and collaboration of human knowledge and innovation. Check out the Travelin' Librarian for video and ppt slides of Michael's keynote.
Friending Libraries: The newest nodes in people's social networks
Lee Rainie- Director of the PEW internet project.
New Strategies for Digital Natives, Helene Blowers, Digital Strategy Director, Columbus Metropolitan Library. link to slides on slideshare.
25 Ideas for Collaborating in 40 Minutes, Kathy Dempsey
Webdesign Pitfalls, Jeff Wisniewski
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