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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Educause has just published another of its all-in-one guides to technology. This time providing a list of 7 Things You Should Know About Location-Aware Applications. The article addresses the following questions:
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Anyone who is presenting or attending an event this conference season will want to stop by Chris Brogan’s blog and peruse his checklist of 27 Things To Do Before a Conference. The post suggests a list of goal-oriented activities in the areas of research, content preparation, and promotion to get you ready for your event.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
If you’re curious about how peer-to-peer file sharing works, who’s using it, and why it may be useful for educators, check out 7 Things You Should Know About P2P. As with its previous “7 Things” guides, Educause addresses the following seven questions about this technology:
Friday, March 13th, 2009
The folks at Online Best Colleges have compiled a list of 100 Twitter Tools to Help You Achieve All Your Goals. Each application in this handy guide is divided into the following categories:
And for even more check out the Apps section of the Twitter Fan Wiki.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Libraries and other organizations that are working to create effective Facebook Pages will want to check out How To Develop A Facebook Page That Attracts Millions of Fans from AllFacebook. This guide details the changes in the new Facebook Pages and includes a section discussing 10 Facebook Page Strategies Every Brand Should Know. Here are their top five recommendations:
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
This is the first of a two-part series of posts at Hongkiat.com covering 100 Free Useful Applications for Mac. The article categorizes the applications into the following sections:
Coming up in Part II next week:
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Andrew Maier at UX Booth has written an excellent primer on IA titled Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture. If you have any interest in the field of info architecture, you will want to check out this guide. Here is the Table of Contents:
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The blog search engine Technorati issues the Technorati Attention Index which reports the top mainstream media websites that bloggers link to the most. This report will be updated each month. Here are the top ten, be sure and check out the full article for the full list.
via TechCrunch
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
This helpful article by Eric Griffith at PC Magazine will let you know How to Delete Accounts from Any Website. The author provides step-by-step instructions, phone numbers, fax numbers, links, consequences and tips for how to opt-out of the following websites:
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Jason Fitzpatrick at LifeHacker has compiled a list of the Six Best Video Editing Applications. Each list entry includes a screenshot and a discussion of the program’s strengths, price, and platform. Here are the top three, be sure and check out the full article for more.
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Julia Angwin writes about How to Twitter: The social rules and tips for gaining ‘followers’; why opinionated people win for the Wall Street Journal. This is a nice introduction which discusses the distinction between followers and friends, retweets, and @replys, as well as third-party apps.
“When I first joined Twitter, I felt like I was in a noisy bar where everyone was shouting and nobody was listening.
Soon, I began to decode its many mysteries: how to find a flock of followers, how to talk to them in a medium that blasts to lots of people at once and how to be witty in very tiny doses.”
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Are you looking for a few high-quality images to use in an upcoming presentation or art project? Take a look at this guide to 40+ Sources To Download High-Quality Royalty Free Stock Images by Daniel Adams of InstantShift.
And if you’re looking for free vector objects to use in your designs, you can check out 25 Best Sites to Download Free Vector Files from dzineblog.
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
If you have over half a dozen social media profiles and you’re starting to feel overwhelmed, you may want to check out Ben Parr’s latest post on Mashable which discusses How To: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles. He breaks down the process of getting organized into the following steps:
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
Sarah Houghton-Jan, Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library, also known as the Librarian in Black, has pulled together a list of Recommended Online Drupal Resources. The list includes handbooks, whitepapers, videos, and tutorials which are sure to come in handy for anyone getting up and running with the open-source content management system.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
A new online portal called Academic Earth has aggregated the video lectures available from universities such as MIT, Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley. According to The Bivings Report they plan to roll out many social features for users over the next couple of months. Another good place to look for open courseware and lecture materials is the Open Courseware Consortium where you can browse or Google across the collections of the 200 international universities who provide OCW.
