File IconsThis is a community project. The aim is to create a large file icon collection with a coherent style.

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TodoistTodoist is a new task manager that’s useful, fast and easy to use.
SLA Knowledge Management Division
EgoFeeds by Stephen Abram
15 Minutes a Day: A Personal Learning Management Strategy

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I just learned about Todoist - an online task manager. Nothing fancy there, but Lifehacker also points me to a Firefox extension that will allow me to integrate Todoist into Gmail. That would work if I actually used the Gmail page - what I’d like to see is a to do list integrated [...]

Discovery Tools: Social Software, Privacy, and Libraries
Google Cheat Sheet (Version 1.06)This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.
Small Business Technology Magazine
Comprehensive list of 980+ Free WordPress 1.5 [...]

Okay, here’s a little bit about me that you probably didn’t know. I am not a big gamer - I never was. In fact, until college my favorite games were Sim City (the original) and Oregon Trail (also the original). In college I met my husband and, gamer that he is, he [...]

If you haven’t already figured it out (based on other posts) - I love StumbleUpon! Today I read that eBay wants to buy this awesome tool - but why??
Stan Schroeder at franticindustries reports:
What is eBay going to do with it, it's hard to say; it's not exactly the most logical acquisition ever, [...]

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Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft - Social Design for the Web
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Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0January 20, 2006 - Casey Bisson
Sources of Free News & [...]

David Weinberger makes an interesting point (and teaches me something new).
I’ ve been showing a screen capture of USA Today’s redesigned site. It includes a button you can click on to give a Digg-like thumbs up to an article. Great, except, um, where’s the thumb down? We want to be able to say to the [...]

I heard about this at CIL this year, but hadn’t been following the news. I just read a very interesting article over at Information Today about OCLC’s WorldCat Local project.
In a Web-dominated world, where Amazon, Google Book Search, and other Net newbies labor hourly to identify every readable tome, all librarians face the challenge [...]

That’s right - for today only - get a sale on your Ebay fees - I’m headed home to pull out that pile I’ve been meaning to list!! This $.20 price applies to all auctions no matter what your starting bid!
When is it? One day only, starting Tuesday, April 24, 2007 between 00:00:01 PT [...]

At CIL David Lee King gave an amazing talk on Guiding Information Pros Through Change.
I mentioned in my summary that David started out with a few questions for the audience:
First, I asked if attendees had learned something innovative or new at the conference that they'd like to take back to their libraries. Almost everyone raised [...]

A little over a month ago I posted that I saw no purpose to Twitter … I was wrong. I don’t really have a day to day need to post what I’m doing, but while at Computers in Libraries I signed up because everyone around me was communicating and I felt left out.
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At CIL I promised that I’d create a screencast for those who couldn’t see the screen - and those who weren’t there at all. I have just created my first 3 screencasts!! There is no sound and nothing fancy, but you can at least see what I did in my presentation. This is [...]

iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study
45 Essential Knowledge Management Sites and Weblogs by Lucas McDonnell
lynda.comAll you can learn training (free options)

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Helene Blowers has a great post summing up what she learned at CIL - and it’s not pretty.
My CIL experience this year was bittersweet and I find myself personally leaving with a lot more unanswered questions and frustrations than new ideas and inspirations.
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This type of frustration I heard echoed in almost every conversation (but thankfully [...]

I’ve been writing about change a lot lately - and while at CIL this year I was informed of an article by Stephen Abram titled “Change - Arrghhhhh!.” I shared the article on my Facebook page and was promptly pointed to a post that links to all of the people who weren’t happy with [...]

Change ? Arrghhhhh!
SRU: Search and Retrieve via URL (Standards, Library of Congress)SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Common Query Language), a standard query syntax for representing queries.
Wikis, Blogs, RSS Aim for WorkplaceAs businesses worldwide debate the pros and cons of using wikis, tagging, Web mashups, syndicated [...]

So today I switched to Google Reader. My husband has been raving about it - and a bunch of librarian buddies were using it at CIL. Here are my first impressions.

I can’t share my subscription list - just individual posts (unless someone tells me otherwise)
I can’t widen the left column to see full titles [...]

Borrowing uni books falls as students turn to internetNUMBERS of books borrowed from universities in Wales are falling as students and staff turn to computers for information.

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Tennant and Spalding on the Future of the Catalog
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Tim Spalding of LibraryThing started out with his talk entitled “The Fun OPAC”. Tim quotes Casey Bisson who said that the OPAC was broken in three ways: usability, findability and remixability. Tim argues that that is [...]

Over at The Compass there is a post about blogging a conference:
I found that knowing my notes/blog would be publicly accessible motivated me and helped me focus more critically than if I had been a passive listener, recording notes privately on a notepad.
This prompts another hypothesis. Blogging was promoted as a teaching tool at [...]

Rob Cagna from University of Pennsylvania came to talk to us about PennTags. The last time I saw this it was a bit rough - it has grown up a lot since it’s birth!!
PennTags is like del.icio.us for members of the Penn community. They can save pages from anywhere on the web, [...]

David Lee King gave an amazing talk on handling change within our libraries. He started by asking a few questions and reading a few quotes. The first question was how many of us have had a hard time changing things in our libraries - lots of hands were raised. Then what kinds [...]

Project ForkProject Fork is the most powerful and flexible project management solution for Joomla! CMS. It is open source, multi-lingual, and easy to use.
SirsiDynix: Bring the User In
Syndetic SolutionsSyndetic Solutions is the premier provider of specialized, quality bibliographic data to enhance library online catalogs, and is the only company dedicated exclusively to that end.
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Before even starting her talk, Helene Blowers posted her presentation information on her blog - check it out here.
Helene walked about the room using her new presentation remote (the same one I have) and talked to us about core competencies and learning 2.0 at her library. She told us a story of librarians in [...]