New to LinkedIn

March 4th, 2008

Looks like LinkedIn didn’t only add a new look, but new features. You can now update your status:

And you can join and create groups!
LinkedIn Groups

All looks fun – no groups that are right for me yet – but maybe soon.

Another Satisfied Customer

March 3rd, 2008

I had a great chat with a friend today:

Anne: I LOVE LIBRARIES
Nicole Engard:: lol
Nicole Engard:: why?
Anne: because i just found all the awesome stuff that my library card will get me at my local library
Anne: as far as on the internet stuff goes
Nicole Engard:: hehe
Nicole Engard:: great!
Anne: i can get MCSE training materials for free on the internet
Nicole Engard:: awesome
Anne: and audiobooks which im sure i’ll be able to hack
Anne: and programming references
Anne: and im sure a bunch of other stuff
Anne: OH
Anne: awesome
Anne: apparently O’reilly’s Safari was bought by ProQuest
Anne: and i have access to ALL of that for free
Anne: AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
Anne: man, libraries need to publish this crap!
Anne: this is such a resource
Anne: thousands of dollars worth of information
Nicole Engard:: hehe – totally copying & pasting to blog
Anne: yeah yeah
Anne: i figured
Anne: but man
Anne: this is a MINT
Nicole Engard:: LOL
Nicole Engard:: I know
Nicole Engard:: and it’s true
Nicole Engard:: libraries have to advertise this stuff
Anne: i feel like i should write an article for slashdot
Anne: or something
Anne: maybe ill write a life@icrontic article about libraries
Anne: and how awesome of a resource they are
Nicole Engard:: yes
Nicole Engard:: do that
Anne: i think i will
Anne: it’ll just be a short snippet i suppose
Anne: but it’ll get me started
Anne: im sure alot of counties libraries’ have safari access
Nicole Engard:: i’m not sure
Nicole Engard:: safari costs a lot
Nicole Engard:: ….
Anne: oh wow…i dont even have to log in
Nicole Engard:: LOL
Nicole Engard:: that’s awesome
Anne: it’s just according to the referring URL
Anne: it’s awesome
Anne: im very psyched
Nicole Engard:: good
Anne: YES

The moral of the story is – advertise your services your patrons will be grateful and find it “awesome”!

LibraryThing adds Status

March 2nd, 2008

When did this happen? I feel like I’m missing out on so much! I was adding a couple of new books to LibraryThing this morning and saw “status” so I said “what is that?” and clicked it. It’s a way to keep track of which books you’ve read and haven’t read! Finally – no more tagging books with “read” and “notread”!

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My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2008-03-01

March 2nd, 2008

25 Useful Social Networking Tools for Librarians – College Degree.com
As a librarian, you want to be able to share information with patrons and students in the easiest way possible, and social networking offers a great way to do just that.
Digital Life
Borders Personal Publishing helps you to create your own professionally bound book. By combining exclusive author services with today?s best publishing tools, it?s the perfect way to put your dreams in print.
Wordclay — Self Publishing, Self Publish, Online Publishing
Wordclay is a DIY, or "Do-it-Yourself," self-publishing company, with a mission to supply writers with tools that are both innovative and accessible to fulfill their publishing needs.
iUniverse – Self Publishing Company
Together with the bookselling expertise provided by a strategic alliance with Barnes & Noble, iUniverse offers a unique mix of self-publishing products and services and the skills of a professional team dedicated to enabling authors to see their books in
AuthorHouse
Since 1997, AuthorHouse has helped more than 30,000 authors put their voice in print and self publish more than 40,000 books.
PrintOnDemand.com: Printing made simple
Powered by Lulu, the leader in self-publishing, PrintOnDemand.com makes it easy – and affordable – to print anything from a single presentation to a small set of employee directories, to thousands of brochures that need to be shipped all over the world.
CreateSpace – On-Demand Self Publishing, DVD on Demand, CD on Demand, Books on Demand
Provides inventory-free, physical distribution of Books, CD and DVDs on Demand, as well as video downloads through Amazon Unbox.
LinkBunch – Put multiple links into one – http://linkbun.ch
Lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS
BookletCreator – create a booklet from any PDF document
A free online tool that allows to create a booklet from a PDF document. It reorders pages so that after printing and folding the pages you get a small book.

Online Presentation Apps

March 1st, 2008

When I was taking my classes online, I could have used a list like this so that I could work with my classmates on projects. Mashable has a list of 13 online presentation apps.

I have only used a couple of these and haven’t event heard of most of them! Check out the list and see which on is best for you.

No more Netscape

March 1st, 2008

AOL has announced that yesterday was the last day they would support Netscape Navigator – “the first mass market graphical Webrowser”:

At one time, Netscape was the de facto Internet browser, but due to some nefariousness on the part of Microsoft, Internet Explorer took over. Now, the spiritual successor to Netscape, Firefox, is chipping away at IE’s market dominance.

I can clearly remember my transition. Our school supported Netscape and so that was the first browser I used. It was only after I got my first computer that I started using IE – just like Matt at CrunchGear said – it was because I was inexperienced and it came with my computer.

I can’t say I’m sad to see Netscape go – it caused me all kinds of trouble when I was designing web pages – but I mention this because of its historical nature.

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