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Exercises: #9 (Week 4). Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 9 (Week 4). Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds. Listen to this podcast. Now that you have a newsreader (your Bloglines. Account), you can begin adding other newsfeeds that interest you. There are several ways you can locate newsfeeds:. When visiting your favorite websites - look for news feed icons. That indicate the website provides it. Often a feed icon will be diplayed somewhere in the navigation of the site. Use Blogline's Search tool. Explore some o...
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Exercises: #19 (Week 8). Take a Look at LibraryThing
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 19 (Week 8). Take a Look at LibraryThing. Are you a booklover or cataloger at heart? Do you enjoy finding lost and forgotten gems on the shelf to read? Add a widget to display titles that are in your catalog (see sidebar. For sample), or install a LT Search box. Not just for personal collections, libraries have started using LibraryThing as well. “Small libraries are using LibraryThing to catalog their collections. Libraries are using the LibraryThing widget. 183; MoBuzzTV Review.
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Exercises: #15 (Week 6). Read a few Perspectives on Web 2.0. Future of Libraries
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 15 (Week 6). Read a few Perspectives on Web 2.0. Future of Libraries. Listen to this podcast. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today. OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? Into a new world of librarianship. To more powerful ways to cooperate. To a temporary place in time.
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Exercises: #6 (Week 3). Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites.
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 6 (Week 3). Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites. Like many web 2.0 sites, Flickr has encouraged other people to build their own online applications. Using images found on the site. Through the use of APIs (application programming interfaces), many people have created third party tools and mashups. That use Flickr images. Here is just a sampling of a few …. Take Flickr images and allows you to paste them on a map. 183; Flickr Color Pickr.
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Exercises: #14 (Week 6). Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 14 (Week 6). Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts. So now that you’ve been blogging for awhile, you might be wondering just how big is the blogosphere? Well according to San Francisco based Technorati. The leading search tool and authority for blogs, there are “ over 175,000 new blogs. So how do you get your blog listed as part of the blogosphere and how can you tag your posts with keywords to make them more findable through a Technorati search? This is eas...
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Exercises: #20 (Week 9). Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 20 (Week 9). Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos. Listen to this podcast. Within the past year online video hosting sites have exploded allowing users to easily. Upload and share videos on the web. Among all the web 2.0 players. In this area, YouTube. Is currently top dog serving up over 1 million video views a day and allowing users not only to upload their own video content easily, but also embed clips into their own sites easily. Other...
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Exercises: #21 (Week 9). Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!)
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006. 21 (Week 9). Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod! The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the " word of the year. Account as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.
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Exercises: #10 (Week 5). Play around with an online image generator.
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Monday, December 4, 2006. 10 (Week 5). Play around with an online image generator. Listen to this podcast. No, I’m not talking about those gas powered back-up things. The generators I’m talking about are websites that allow you to easily manipulate images. See examples:. For this discovery exercise, we want you to have even more fun than you're already having! If you’re having difficulty getting your image added to a post in your blog, ask a co-. Worker for help or a Virtual Services Task Group member.