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Paul Pival
Chad Boeninger
Outreach is fostering relationships with people unconnected with the organization
Why provide outreach?
We must be where people are…
Blogs,
WP Polls plugin for Word Press blogs
can use blogs as a knowledge base
Wiki
teach classes from wiki content
online “handout” of course materials
Facebook
use it to make yourself accessible/approachable
link to your profile
import info from blogs, etc. into facebook
occasionally gets reference questions in facebook
Chat
Meebo
Pigeon – plugin connects to meebo widget
embed same meebo widget in lots of places
embed different widgets to know where people are coming from (embed one in catalog, for example, listed as “catalog help”)
Skype – VoIP
share video and audio
screencasting
jingproject.com
capture still or video images with audio; save, embed, share
doesn’t allow editing
works with anything on your desktop
screencastomatic.com
similar, web-based tool
browser capture only?
Knowledge Base Publisher
open source
for FAQs, etc.
See stats on views of each FAQ “article”
user ratings
glossary
customers can submit a question
provides suggested answers as well as place to email questions?
Easily add questions from customers to the knowledge base
links to be added
Darlene Fichter
The eyes only see what the mind comprehends
web 1.0
people who knew html
programmers
web 2.0
everyone can participate
don’t need to know html (blog, wiki)
citizen journalists, stock photo sites
DIY Programming
5 minute customization of applications
no longer the purview of techno elite
Mashup: a web application that uses content from more than one source to create a new service
uses api or rss feed
term comes from pop music
ecosystem:
open data
open set of services & apps (APIs)
Us
programmable web – mashup dashboard
most mashups involve maps (also photos, shopping)
Web 2.0 implications
fastest growing ecosystems
don’t have to get anybody
s approval to provide a new API to the Internet operating systems
Content that can be repurposed and remixed gets used
mashup tools:
Yahoo maps
Frappr
Google Maps
Yahoo Pipes
Popfly
Frappr – map of blogging librarians – social applications, identifies communities
uses google API and community contributed content
community walk – good for showing tours
Google My Maps
go to maps.google.com
click on My Maps
add pushpins plus notes, photos, to create a map
Embed the code in your library site
library branches
historical buildings
locations in stories
chocomap.com
google API and Directory data
McMaster Aerial Photos
Google API and library photo index data
Western Springs History
easy for anyone who edit some html or xml files
Google API and location of historic buildings
need production API key or developer code
Yahoo Pipes
Powerful, but more complicated
Tutorial
http://mrspeaker.webeisteddfod.com/2007/…
Cambridge public library
Top 20 new books
Syndetics – book covers
data – top 20 new books
Unintended consequences
Garbage in, garbage out
client side scripts that modify pages
-al instances of Microsoft on any site are rewritten to say “…”
Visualization Tools
newsmap
Facets as elastic lists
Social sites for data visualizations
allows new kind of data analysis
both curious and serious, statistician and citizen
important new medium
in a nutshell:
an individual should get value from their contribution
contribtions should provide value to peers as well
organization that hosts the sites should derive some benefits and derviv aggregate data
Swivel
drill down to see data
Many Eyes
view and discuss visualizations, create visualizations from existing data sets
register to upload own data
Trendalyzer/Gapminder
links to be added
Slideshare
zoho show (can work offline)
google presentations
drupal chat – works around filters and firewalls
single party clients –
AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk
Group chat requires some knowledge
Have to have an account for specific platform
often blocked by firewalls
Third party clients
Can talk to multiple protocol chats
run AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber all at once
requires download
Meebo
multi-client
doesn’t require download
Group clients
Anyone can participate without login or account
can be made private if desired
Similar to IRC channel
easy to access
Often embeddable in website
Campfire
MeeboRooms
Blogs
Blogger – hosted, has added a lot of features
can have your own domain
Word Press
.com, .org, .MU
Open source
flexibility
Akismet
importing
posts to the future
auto saves
Movable type
non-hosted
free for personal use, but not multiple users
fees for support, etc.
integrates with your authentication system
junk mail file
tags and widgets
email notification
Screencasting
Camtasia
Can have
true video
PPT
Screencapture
blended together
Complex to use
Can export to
Flash
Quicktime
AVI
RealMedia
iPod video
Macromedia captivate
Simple to use
Exports as flash
not full motion screen capture
Camstudio
Free
Open Source
Windows only
Very simplistic
Exports as AVI of Flash
iShowU
Mac
Exports to lots of different formats
captures screen and voice
Blip.tv
place to store screencasts
can post to blog
allows you to archive at Internet Archive
Make a flash file for viewing
keeps your original
Webcasting
most expensive part of any project
tools are expensive – created for businesses
OPAL – online programming for all libraries
only works with PC and IE
DimDim
open source
installed, free (techie only)
hosted, $8/month
browser based
multi-user chat
records and archives
No mac, but works with IE and Firefox
Zoho meeting
free, while in beta
person who’s running it has to have install
works on everything
broadcasts presenter’s computer to attendees
Vmukti Meeting Place
free, open source
no install
open or private meetings
audio, video, web conferencing
must install and run on server with a MySQL database
support is free but there is installation support for $100
Podcasting
Audacity
create audio files
import existing audio
edit
trim, adjust levels, fade in and out
Create MP3
Set IDE tags
OurMedia
can upload audio or video
create a podcast feed
add content to the Internet, archive automatically if desired
Apply creative commons license to your work
Feedburner
create feed for podcasts
add information for iTunes
keep stats of subscribers
iTunes University
organize content by course
upload audio files
add/edit track IDE tags
Podpress
WordPress plugin
create a podcast feed off a wordpress blog
upload audio files
collect stats
add podcast to iTunes and other directories
embed audio in blog
www.librarywebchic.net
wanderingeyre.com
Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone
**update: links added**
Communicating ideas
sketchcast.com – drawing and audio
jingproject.com – capture and share images on screen
- use when showing works better than telling
- just in time demos – canned screens for common how-to questions
picnik – online photo editor, plugin for IE or Firefox
- allows capture of full page, not just what appears on screen
Just for fun!
Kerpoof – make online cartoons, movies, pictures
Other power point sharing sites;
- slideshare.net – presentation sharing
- scribd
- splashcast – combine ppt, mp3, images
- zoho show
- slideaware
thumbalizr.com
capture screen or page image
Visual pagerank
IBM Unstructured Information Modeler
- analyze unstructured data sets
- automatically classify and create categories
- works for 1000 – 10,000 records
Utilities
diffdaff.com
- compare differences in two different directories (e.g. Hard drive and thumb drive) using graphical interface
- logview
- testing and analyzing web services www.crosschecknet.com
- web services functional testing
- complex SOAP WSDL support
Evolved
text editor – adapts to a large number of programming languages; color codes different languages and elements
Fun with Images
- Flash Slideshow Maker
- Flashgallery Generator
- allows customization of slideshow based on context
Search and Indexing
- Google sitemap builder
- makes sure google indexes everything on your site
Open source federated searching
- Library Find (Oregon state)
- dbWiz (Simon Fraser University)
- Masterkey (index data)
- Supports up to 500,000 documents
- go from installer to searching in minutes
- easy to use graphical tools to configure look and feel
- configurable synonyms and featured links increase relevancy
- download and install on server
Google Coop CSE
good site integration
OpenURL referrer Toolbar
doesn’t go away when you delete cookies
Freedom
Pack your own browser
Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords
asterisk logger v.1.02 – reveal stored passwords
undelete – recovers deleted files, unerases lost data
unstoppable copier – recover all bytes from scratched cds
simple file shredder – securely delete files so they can’t be restored
KeePass – store all your passwords in one database, locked with one master key
I picked up a copy of John Ruskin’s On Art and Life
You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves….On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make him a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness, all his dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him.
