A Wandering Eyre

• now talking to my mom #
• @advinlib - well some people still like that #
• sushi reservations are made! YUM! #
• now talking to brother, family filled afternoon #
• finally got on the wireless, am now messing around until 11:30 #
• @dwfree - in cushy chairs on first floor #
• In Cohen’s RSS session hoping he will have something new to show me, he is always entertaining #
• j button on Google Reader will scroll feeds #
• Cohen - "RSS is neither simple nor syndicated, discussed." #
• http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/IL2007 - Steven’s presentation wiki #
• Cohen on redirecting domains "I do not know exactly how to do it, but you are librarians, look it up." #
• Cohen - "want to know what the next IE will look like? look at Firefox now." #
• dave free is the coolest person in the world. #

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• finished tomorrow’s presentation, chatting with online class #
• I should be joining the gang at the vendor thing, but I am blogging instead #
• ok, blogging done, powering down for dinner, l8r twits. #
• the toobes are slow at the Portola #
• answering email and going over presentation for 3:15 #
• packing up and heading to the Coombs and Boule show, hooray! #
• talking to my hubby #

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• @msauers - DMing you right now #
• drinking tea and answering email before heading to conference #
• ok, finishing getting ready so we can leave for the day #
• One guy raises his hand says he is the only person in his library that knows anything about the internet. WHAT!? In a library! headdesk #
• sometimes, libraries are irritating, no, librarians are irritating. can we all just please admit the internet is here and learn to use it? #
• @dwfree, @librarianmer - bwahahaha, rotflmao - that is Crown and Anchor worthy. Mer, I lurve you #
• sometimes, libraries are irritating, no, librarians are irritating. can we all just please admit the internet is here and learn to use it? #
• @librarywebchic - online marketing for libraries, Schmidt and Houghton-Jan #
• working on presentation for tomorrow at Plumes with KCoombs and joined by JClark #
• @griffey - what you going to next? we will be at cool tools for webmasters #
• whoa Twitter keeps double posting stuff for me today, or maybe it is me doing something weird #
• at hotel, doing stuff, until I have online class meeting #
• @Size23more - I confirm the cohen arrival, he will be at C&A tonight #

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Cool Tools for Webmasters

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This is a rough blog of the afternoon session from today. It is mostly a list of tools, so I figured you, dear readers, could live with this.

Cool Tools for Webmasters – IL2007
Frank Cervone and Darlene Fichter

Communicating Ideas
Sketchcast.com – a cast of you drawing and talking
JingProject.com – capture and share images or small screencasts, when showing works better than telling
Picnik.com – has Firefox and IE plugin, will capture the full web page, instead of only what you can see without scrolling, will send to flickr
Kerpoof.com – create online storybooks, comics, or movies

PPT Tools
Slideshare.net – shares PPT and Keynote
Scribd – supports keyword searching
SplashCast – supports PPT, MP3, Images
ZohoShow – allows editing
SlideAware – best stats, limited access

Thumbalizr.com – capture screen or image, can set custom sizes
Visual Page Rank

Utilities
DiffDaff.com – graphical interface alternative to a unix dif command
Tucows.com (Log View) –

Development
SOAP Sonar – testing and analyzing Web Services (http://www.crosschecknet.com)
Evolved (http://www.home.no/evolved/) adapts to a large number of programming language and will break out elements of a program, ex. Breaks would be blue, tags would be red
Perl express (perl-express.com) – integrated development environment for Perl, syntax highlighting, will help you run database queries and test things on a server

Fun with Images
Photo slideshow – (flash.dvd-photo.slideshow.com) – creates a monie from a series of pictures
Flashgallerygenreator.com/main.aspx – uses XML

Search and Indexing
Google SiteMap Builder (sitemapbuilder.net)– XML file that will allow Google to index all the things on your site

Google.com/coop/cse – will now integrate directly into webpages and make it look more seemless then before
OpenURL Referrer Toolbar – openly.oclc.org/openurlref – user can download and use it to access your open URL resolver to connect to your resources
FlogBlog – apps.facebook.com/flogblog – integrates blog content onto a facebook page

Freedom - USB
Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords and will run on a USB
Asterisk Logger v1.02 – reveals passwords behind passwords
Undelelete – recovers deleted files
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

Booties!

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I know, not conference related, but Jenica made these for me. They are so adorable, I had to share them with the interwebs.

–Jane, needs to be heading down to the vendor recpetion

• presentation lacks one slide of examples which will be happening after dinner and the Crown and Anchor #
• @dwfree, @davidleeking- good luck with the Daves Show #
• last minute tweaks to presentation, I need to leave it alone already! #
• ok, getting ready to leave to grab breakfast and get to precon! #
• whew, my part is done. Chad is up now, talkin’ wikis #
• @etches - u r too nice, but i’ll take it #
• chad did great #
• jason is talking about social bookmarks, first he shows the Common Craft Video http://tinyurl.com/yvdezp #
• @akearns - in hotel lobby #
• @griffey is del.icio.us! #
• slides for Blogs and RSS from the morning http://tinyurl.com/2f38a3 #
• wiki for precon http://academiclibrary2point0.pbwiki.com/ #
• @griffey talking about del.icio.us is going very well and they have a good questions. how did we live without del.icio.us? #
• @stevencohen - guess we won;t see you till tomorrow, then #
• The Farkas is talking about going where our users are #
• @stevencohen - haha, without u, why would we? we’ll sleep up for tomorrow #
• @cheekyattitude - sending you a DM #
• according to Meredith - Vistoria’s Secret has a MySpace page #
• @lichen - I ate chocolate cake with my lunch! #
• looots of questions about facebook and myspace #
• Amanda is talking about getting buy in for 2.0, very important #
• @stevencohen - I see you are warming up for us #

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Academic Libraries 2.0

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I have been teaching a preconference with Amanda Etches-Johnson, Chad Boeninger, Meredith Farkas, and Jason Griffey all day today. I am actually typing this while Meredith is wrapping up her talk on Social Networking. So far, it has gone well, good questions, and no one is asleep, that I can see.

At the end of the day, we are having a free form round table discussion time that will be open and informal. We sort of took the BIGWIG Showcase idea and applied it to our preconference. I am looking forward to seeing what kinds of things come up in the small groups.

We have a wiki for this presentation with all of our slides and contact information. How 2.0 of us.

–Jane, a day of 2.0 fun

• checked into hotel in Monterey, working on prettifying my slides for tomorrow #

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• well, did not get near enough done today, but it is time to go pack for monterey #

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3rd Year Review Binder

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This very full three inch binder is the cumulation of three years of academic work. At MPOW, we have what many academic libraries have and what I refer to as “pretend tenure.” It is not tenure, but we are not staff. We go through a review process at 3 and 6 years, but we do not face the faculty panels, just a committee of librarians.

I started out enjoying the process. Remembering projects I worked on, some good, some that were excruciating, poke my eyes out bad. It was interesting. After a couple days of printing out screenshots (yes, printing, we are not allowed to submit electronic things) I was tired of it. Your work life should never be able to be properly represented by some pieces of paper. Those papers do not speak to the people I met at conferences. The conversations I have had with librarians from whom I have learned a great deal.

It is also a very prescribed process. All the papers must be in a certain order, prescribed by the governance documents of the library. The only creativity I was able to squeeze in was my theme and some clip art. I felt very confined by the process. There was no room for leeway. I am not a lover of rules, but you already knew that.

I am just glad it is turned in and over.

Now I have to go pack for Internet Librarian. Tomorrow, at this time, I will be in lovely Monterey, CA.

–Jane, safe travels fellow ILers