WHAT
Web Technology has developed rapidly over the years. Major important thing is that it is giving normal users (and therefore also librarians) more power to create, edit, maintain, distribute, share etc where as in the past these features were merely possible for technical and (network) IT staff.
For almost any functionality or tools offered "in house" one can find several alternative on the web.
(roughly in order of discussion in the Workshop
- Online Document & Office Tools
- Google Docs
- From iCloud to Dropbox: 5 Cloud Services Compared http://bit.ly/jheMn9
- 7 Things You Should Know About Organizing Files in the Cloud
- Online Note-taking Apps:
- Publishing & sharing docs &; pics:
- Planning:
- Communication:
- Facebook (+Chat), Meebo
- Web Conferencing: Skype, Elluminate, WebEx
- Statistics:
- Surveys :
- Social Bookmarking:
- Bibliographic software : Citavi, CiteULike, LibraryThing, Mendeley, Zotero;
- Alering & RSS: Yahoo Pipes , Google Reader, Feed Informer
- Guiding resources (Trailfire, Jogtheweb, PearlTrees, Livebinders, ...)
- Social Networking ( Facebook, Linkedin, CILIP Communities, Quora, Yahoo Answers)
- QR Codes (and linking to : Videos, New arrivals, Treasure Hunt, Contact details etc
- "One trick Pony's"
- Mindmeister.com: a free mind mapping tool on the web
- Prezi.com: alternative presentations
- Host discussion groups on Homepagemodules.de;
- BasecampHQ.com for online project management and collaboration. I tried it not by myself, but there is certainly a big need for that;
- BookSeer
- Animoto
- BB FlashBack Express
- Tagxedo
- Wall Wisher, http://wallwisher.com
Extra Reading:
- example of Issuu Journal TEDxMaastricht or ZB MED Journal
- There’s an -oodle for that …
- Dr. Who and Libraries : 11 resources libraries should use more
Discovery Exercises
- Sign up (if you haven't already done so) for Gmail at Create an Account. When you sign up for Gmail, you get a Google Account that gives you access to all of the free Google products. Just enter your Gmail username and password when you're asked to sign in.
- Sign up (if you haven't already done so) for Facebook. Take a look at the Help Center to learn more.
- Go to Google Documents. Create a Document where you can take notes from the workshop. Try out editing, publishing & sharing (Google) Documents.
- Create a presentation. Make a few slides about what you already have worked with.
- Go to Flickr, you can sign in with your Gmail or Facebook account. See if you can find some picture on Flickr to put in your documents. Create a group NBAMHI (and /or your library) to collect and share pictures.
- Upload your presentation from Google Docs to SlideShare, you can sign up for an account, or sign in with e.g. your Facebook account.
- Try out Communication. - GoogleTalk or Facebook. Find people available and invite them to chat! You can also take a look at this Google Chat Tutorial or check the Facebook help Center.
- Plan a reunion meeting with your group next week. The meeting can take place in Skype or you can use Google Talk/Facebook. Use Doodle for planning
- Make a survey with Surveymonkey.com. Distribute with Gmail or on your blog.
- If time Try Scribd and Issuu, find out how they work and compare them.
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