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40 Alternatives To Microsoft Word

Tue, 13 May 2008 16:23:11 -0400

The News in Print compiles a listing of 40 word processing applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Online use, with reviews for each. And while you’re there, you might check out …

A Guidebook to Virtual Worlds

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:04:00 -0400

A Guidebook to Virtual Worlds:

The Association of Virtual Worlds has published The Blue Book: A Consumer Guide to Virtual Worlds. This free, downloadable book provides a guide, with links, to over 250 virtual worlds…

9 Ways to Get Better Comments

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:49:52 -0400

9 Ways to Get Better Comments: Todd Zeigler at the Bivings Report comes up with 9 Ways to Improve the Quality of Comments on your Website. If you have a blog or website on which you allow public commenting, you may want to…

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Sat, 10 May 2008 16:09:00 -0400

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Portable Data on MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter, and More

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:59 -0400

Portable Data on MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter, and More:

Imagine making a change to your profile on MySpace and having it automagically update on the other social website communities to which you belong. According to an announcement made by…

How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:58 -0400

How to Analyze your Site with Del.icio.us:

Ann Smarty at Search Engine Journal has come up with a guide to analyzing your website using the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us. By following her suggestions, web authors will benefit…

Marketing the Library to Teens

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:26:20 -0400

Marketing the Library to Teens:

Illustration by Max Scratchmann

Anastasia Goodstein offers some pretty sound advice for attracting today’s tech-savvy, multi-tasking teens to the library in her article What Would Madison…

10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:26:20 -0400

10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast: Marketing Vox has come up with a how-to guide for podcasters including 10 Tips for Launching a Solid Podcast. They note that podcasts are projected to reach an audience of 65 million users by the…

8 Top Alternative Search Engines

Wed, 07 May 2008 16:10:57 -0400

8 Top Alternative Search Engines:

Looking to go beyond Google for Web search? If so, you’ll want to check out these eight search engines listed by Web Worker Daily as viable alternatives to the search heavyweight including…

Open Source Software in Education

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:07:43 -0400

Open Source Software in Education: Shaheen E. Lakhan and Kavita Jhunjhunwala write about open source software in online learning for the April-June 2008 issue of Educause Quarterly. They discuss the history of open source, its…

Building Online Community

Tue, 06 May 2008 23:23:11 -0400

Building Online Community: Aliza Sherman at Web Worker Daily discusses the rules for Building Online Community Brick by Virtual Brick and then provides some suggestions for social networks and other online destinations…

Web 2.0 Expo Presentations

Tue, 06 May 2008 23:23:11 -0400

Web 2.0 Expo Presentations:

The speaker presentation files for the recent Web 2.0 Expo which was held April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA are now available. If you weren’t able to attend the popular O’Reilly…

Borrow a Person from the Library

Fri, 02 May 2008 05:37:06 -0400

Borrow a Person from the Library:

A Scandinavian event called the Living Library which lets patrons borrow human “books” is making its way around the UK according to the Times Online. During these special events, library…

50 Awesome Open Source Resources

Thu, 01 May 2008 10:43:31 -0400

50 Awesome Open Source Resources: Bloggers and librarians alike will be interested in checking out this list of 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers which links to loads of free/low-cost applications to help you…

5 Questions for Encyclopaedia Britannica

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:39:04 -0400

5 Questions for Encyclopaedia Britannica: In response to the new WebShare initiative which is offering free access to the complete online Encyclopaedia Britannica to bloggers and Web publishers, I had a chance to ask Jorge Cauz, President…

Web 2.0 and the Parallel Information Universe

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:11 -0400

Web 2.0 and the Parallel Information Universe: Mike Eisenberg writes about The Parallel Information Universe: What’s out there and what it means for libraries in the May 1, 2008 issue of Library Journal. In his article, Eisenberg discusses…

Libraries Unleashed

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:39:24 -0400

Libraries Unleashed: The U.K.’s Guardian, in association with the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc), has published a special supplement titled Libraries Unleashed featuring 18 articles on libraries and…

Next Gen Researchers at the British Library

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:02:24 -0400

Next Gen Researchers at the British Library: The London Journal of The New York Times covers the controversy having to do with the British Library’s new generation of researchers, and the philosophical debate over who should be allowed…

Whom Do You Trust?

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:02:24 -0400

Whom Do You Trust?:

This chart from Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, written by analysts at Forrester, illustrates some interesting trends dealing with who people put their…

Top 100 Tools for Learning

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:02:24 -0400

Top 100 Tools for Learning: The Spring 2008 edition of the Top 100 Tools for Learning has been published by Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT). Earlier this year, they gathered the top 10 tools used by…