Archive for March, 2006

Answers.com RSS

Posted by Nicole on March 29th, 2006 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Answers.com has a bunch of fun little RSS feeds available like Word of the Day and Birthdays Today. If you have the time to read one more feed give them a try.

WiFi Hotels

Posted by Nicole on March 29th, 2006 under Wireless
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After our experiences in Washington at CIL a bunch of bloggers are wondering what next year will be like at a new hotel. Well Lifehacker has a post about the Best and worst hotels for WiFi. I haven’t read the reports yet, but I’m sure they’re handy.

Don’t miss the Carnival

Posted by Nicole on March 29th, 2006 under Library
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It’s hosted at Open Stacks this week.

Another Tech Savvy Staff Tip

Posted by Nicole on March 29th, 2006 under CIL2006, Learning
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I was reflecting on what I learned last week at the conference and I thought I should share with you all one way that we’re trying to create Tech Savvy Staff – and it’s free! We (meaning I) look for free webinars offered through places like OPAL, SirsiDynix and KM World and invite the entire [...]

Us vs Them – Why??

Posted by Nicole on March 28th, 2006 under Library 2.0
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It makes me sad. Well it makes me angry first, but then when that passes I’m sad. I was debating whether to say anything or not – considering how upset my last (seemingly innocent) post made people, but no one is in the library yet – so I only have you guys to share with. [...]

Another Online Word Processor

Posted by Nicole on March 27th, 2006 under Online Tools & Tips
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Unlike Writely or ZohoWriter, ajaxWrite does not allow for collaboration, but it does look just like Word. There is no online storage, but you can save the file to your computer as PDF, DOC, or other popular formats. You need Firefox 1.5 or higher to give this little tool a whirl.

Blogging a conference

Posted by Nicole on March 27th, 2006 under CIL2006
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This is the first year I was a blogger at CIL – it’s my first year as a blogger at all – what’s the point? Well I was reading everyone else’s summaries (now that mine are finished) and I saw this bullet point from Amanda Etches-Johnson and I just had to share it here because [...]

The conference in pictures

Posted by Nicole on March 27th, 2006 under CIL2006
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A lot of people have been adding their CIL pictures to Flickr – but only one has sketches from the sessions! Derik Badman sketched what he saw while in sessions and around the conference. Very cool! And fun if you were in the same session because you know exactly what part he was sketching. Technorati [...]

The Wikipedia/Britannica Debate

Posted by Nicole on March 27th, 2006 under Wikis
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Back in December there was a lot of news coverage regarding an article in Nature magazine that stated that both Wikipedia and Britannica had a similar number of errors. Well Britannica has replied with a 20 page report (which I have not read all of – for reasons already stated – I’m way behind) In [...]

DigiTech Props

Posted by Nicole on March 27th, 2006 under CIL2006
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I mentioned that Darlene Fichter had great props for the DigiTech Forum – well Nancy Garmen from Info Today got a great picture. Make sure you check it out. PS. I’m catching up on my reading so I’ll probably have more CIL summaries to share with you from the other bloggers. Technorati Tags: cil2006, cil06