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Technological Tools and Tricks

Jessica Baumgart
SLA Rhode Island Chapter
Saturday, November 11, 2008

Ask:

1. Is anyone bursting at the seams to share a fabulous tool?

2. Does anyone have a particular, urgent need for a tool that does something particular?
3. Is there a particular site or kind of site you’d like me to discuss or explain?

Social news sites and their magic

Why should librarians care?

Digg: digg.com
Reddit: reddit.com
Babbledog: babbledog.com

• Oovoo: www.oovoo.com — multi-way video conferencing
• Brightkite: brightkite.com — location-based social network (invite only)
• Dopplr: www.dopplr.com — social networking for travelers
• Plazes: plazes.com — keep tabs on where people are
• tumblr: www.tumblr.com — “Post anything. Customize everything.”
• meebo: www.meebo.com — instant message from anywhere
• feed43: feed43.com — scraping for rss feeds
• Friend Feed: — create one feed to follow people through various online services, weblogs, etc.
• http://search.twitter.com, formerly summize — a way to search twitter
• Utterz: www.utterz.com — start a discussion from your mobile device
• seesmic: seesmic.com — video search thingie, video twitter
• Chandler: chandlerproject.org — personal information management {show video}, downloadable software and online component
• Evernote: evernote.com — downloadable software that remembers what you highlight and select for a note {show video}
• picnik: www.picnik.com — online photo editing
• Jottit: jottit.com — Aaraon Swartz — instant wiki  http://jottit.com/e6qry/
• Jott: jott.com — Call 1-866-JOTT-123 for it to capture your voice, turn what you say into text, and send it where you want it to go
• scribd: www.scribd.com — YouTube for documents
• Slideshare: www.slideshare.net — share presentations, host a webcast
• Awesome Highlighter: awesomehighlighter.com — Highlight and save text on Web pages
• Cuil: www.cuil.com — new search engine that’s competing with Google
• If Google is so great, then why not …
• Wordle: wordle.net — Word/tag clouds from documents
  • Square dancing:  Advanced definitions: wordle.net
  • C-1: wordle.net
  • C-2: wordle.net
• Shared, collaborative white boards:
  • skrbl: www.skrbl.com

  • Thinkature: thinkature.com
  • twiddla: www.twiddla.com
  • dabbleBoard: dabbleboard.com
• SLA Innovation Lab: www.sla.org — SLA’s online space to learn about various tech tools
• Cool video about what Web 2.0 is
• How do Web 2.0 tools get their names, anyway?
• Base Camp: basecamphq.com — mix of collaborative tools
• TinEye: tineye.com — image search based on file bits so you can find similar images on the Web
• Many Eyes: services.alphaworks.ibm.com — data visualization
• Periodic Table of Data Visualization: www.visual-literacy.org — shows lots of visualization methods
• Baby Name Wizard — an example of a visualization tool
• Prefuse: prefuse.org — visualization tool
• FreeMind: freemind.sourceforge.net — Cross-platform mind mapping software

From the floor:

• Fraps — a way to capture video on Windows computers

• SnapzPro — record what is on a Mac’s screen as a QuickTime movie or image
• Yahoo! Babelfish — an online translation tool
• LibraryThing — a way to organize materials like books and videos and share information about what you own with other people while learning what they have in their collections

Thank you!

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