My delicious bookmarks for 2009-06-28
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions by Mashable Six technologies soon to affect education More of my links
Archive | June, 2009
Twitter for Libraries
I have been asked to give a few workshops on the value of Twitter to libraries and librarians. So far, I have collected a series of articles and guides and wanted to share the list with you all. 5 ways for libraries to fail at Twitter 5 terrific twitter research tools How twitter will change [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2009-06-23
Mac4LinThe goal of this project is to bring the Mac OS X user interface to POSIX Operating Systems (GNU/LInux, FreeBSD, openSolaris etc.). FreecivFreeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. Lupo PenSuiteThe Suite includes over 200 highly selected portable programs and games (7-Zip, Audacity, CCleaner, eMule, [...]
LinkedIn SubGroups
Today I got an email from LinkedIn announcing that they will be adding subgroups! We’re happy to announce that later this week we are launching a long-requested feature for group managers: the ability to create subgroups. Subgroups are like a break-out session at a conference. They enable you to create more focused areas than in [...]
Libraries populate the Twitterverse
Librarian (and library) twitterers have been recognized by BookSeller.com: Libraries are seizing on Twitter, the micro-blogging phenomenon, as a new way to reach out to users and to network with colleagues and the wider book trade. An estimated 40-plus individual libraries and library services, including Manchester, Devon, Bradford, Edinburgh, Westminster and Leeds are now making [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2009-06-19
OmCollabomCollab is a powerful, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration product completely built on open source software. It provides a web portal environment to create, share and search Microsoft Office content, files, shared bookmarks, blog posts and wiki articles across the enterprise. omCollab integrates some of the most powerful open source software applications into a single collaborative environment. [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2009-06-18
InkscapeAn Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. GovFreshGovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place. Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver [...]
SLA 2009 Keynote: Colin Powell
Better late than never, that’s my opinion Sorry it took me so long to get this summary up. The keynote talk at SLA 2009 in Washington, DC was made by Colin Powell and I must say it was better than I thought it would be!! I need to start by mentioning that my notes will [...]
Joomla v. Drupal Survey
If your library is using Drupal or Joomla you might want to help another librarian by answering these 5 questions about why you chose the system you chose. I was going to answer the survey, but it assumes that I’m talking about my experience in a library – and I never used either in a [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2009-06-17
BackbarsBackbars on social link-sites is a GreaseMonkey script to turn the headlines and comments of social link-sites into ambient bar charts (of votes/diggs/views/users?) It works on Reddit, Delicious, Digg, Hacker News, and Stack Overflow (and MetaFilter now!). ProduleCreate Flash Widgets More of my links
