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So I’m sitting in the presentation about Flickr & Libraries and I realize I wanted to see John Blyberg’s talk on mashups - so I run to the other side of the conference center and sit down right in front. Of course I missed the introduction - so I had to jump in in [...]

My husband - who usually learns everything from me - knew that Firefox 2.0 was released before I did - I’ve been so busy with the conference and school work that I didn’t realize - anyway, I’m downloading it now - are you??
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Well, I’m all done and it went well. I had to provide an intro because 2 of the panel speakers were unable to make it. I didn’t get to show everything I wanted on the Intranet, but that’s okay because I uploaded a bunch of images and they can be found in my Flickr [...]

The description for this talk read:
Web site redesign used to be a chore, but no longer! By using a process that combines evidence-based design, user-driven planning, and extensive user testing, you can create a site that practically designs itself. Wisnewski will map out how a bottom-up design process is both easier, as well as [...]

I know that I’m behind on my reporting - but I’ll catch up on the plane - I hope
Today I give my first national conference - and I’ve been up since 4am CA time! Last night I was having too much fun with everyone to come back here and prepare - [...]

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Darlene Fichter Cool Tools :: Library :: Apps Archive

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Glenn Peterson from engagedpatrons.org started out this presentation with template that read “Libraries Change Lives Through Lifelong Learning” - I LOVE IT!!
Glenn reminded us of some big OPAC developments in the past year:

ILS Customer Bill of Rights
PatREST (more about this later)
NCSU/Endeca Catalog
NGC4Lib Mailing List
Catalog searches everywhere (Amazon, Google, MySpace)

One of the things that we do [...]

Cool Tools for Webmasters from Darlene & Frank:
Site Maps

eXactMapper Lite
Google Sitemap Builder

BlingCreate Flash animations

WinkNot very sophisticated - great for tutorials

Powerbullet PresenterA bit more sophisticated

Maps

Communitywalk.com
yourgmap.com
mapbuilder.net
googlemapbuilder.com (not free - but powerful)

Yahoo! User Interface Library
Flickr

Captionr!
ColrPickr (search for pictures by color)
retrievr (search for pictures like yours)

More Photos

Web Gallery Creator (goes through directories on your computer and creates pages with [...]

Karen Coombs started out the session on Innovative Uses of Web 2.0 Technologies by sharing some basic principles of Web 2.0.
Radical Decentralization
An example of centralization is people sending content to one web person and that person making the necessary web edits. Decentralization is the opposite - letting the people change the necessary [...]

OpenLibrariesOpenMinds
Library Grants

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Today I had the pleasure of getting to hear Paul Miller from Talis talk again. You may remember my enthusiastic post from CIL last year. His talk was not titled Shared Innovation - but it was a lot about Shared Innovation (and the talk had the same title as at CIL so I didn’t [...]

Judy Jance was the speaker for today’s Keynote - and while I haven’t read her books (or heard of her before today ) I’m so glad I got to hear her talk!! When I have time to read something other than a textbook (a year from now) I’m going out to buy one [...]

Chad at Library Voice pointed out the Second Life Travel Guide on Wired. I did a quick look through and the library isn’t listed It’s a neat guide - if you can actually log in - which I still can’t do).

I have just paid for my Flickr account - that’s right - up til now I just stayed within my limits as a free member, but today when I couldn’t create a new set for IL2006 photos I decided it was worth it to make the leap! So now you can see my pictures [...]

I have just gotten back from the SLA reception (and after party). I had such a great time I got to talk to so many people about so many things I’m passionate about! The reception was hosted by InfoToday for the SLA members because they had just held their board meetings here in [...]

So I have arrived here in Monterey (with more bags than I care to tell you about). Turns out that Monterey has the smallest airport I have ever been in! You get off the plane by walking down these scary steps and then you have to walk a while (outside - it was a [...]

Well - not if I don’t finish packing today But I thought I’d let you all know that I’m leaving tomorrow morning for Internet Librarian. My talk will be on how we’re using Wikis on our Intranet and will take place in the first half of the 2 part Wiki session (come see [...]

I just want to post a quick sorry to everyone who tried to get to my blog the last couple of days. I got a few emails and IMs asking what the deal was - turns out a spammer was hitting the server through my site and so they suspended my account. I [...]

I don’t know if this is Bloglines or me. Yesterday, I imported the IL OPML a few times and deleted the folder over and over - I might have accidentally deleted my mailing lists folder!! Or Bloglines got rid of it - who knows. I’m a little annoyed either way because I [...]

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Embedded Media HTML GeneratorEasy-to-use web service that will generate the HTML needed to embed QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, and Flash files in your web site
I want a Freeware Utility to … 450+ common problems solved : eConsultantExtremely useful free utilities that do specific jobs really well and save time and money.
opmlmanager.com
PDF PadLets you download [...]

Well, I was waiting for someone else to do this - and no one did So here we go. This is the first OPML file I have ever created - I hope I did it right. Share this file with your friends so they can keep up with what’s happening at Internet [...]

A new (or new to me) Firefox extension that makes error pages much more handy.
Rather than the lone “Try again” button, ErrorZilla adds buttons to the error page that allow you to do things like view the Google Cache of the page, find a snapshot of the page from the Wayback Machine, ping [...]

I just got a great comment from someone at work. She added me to her buddy list yesterday and today she said to me “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that you’re a good person to have on my buddy list - you just have such a wealth of knowledge to share.” [...]

I’m writing up a report for one of my classes. I have to compare 2 library associations and I chose SLA & AALL since they’re both close to what I do. One way I can gather info is to ask others - so if you’re a member of either or both and want [...]