We didn't do these Things in 2007 so I've tried them out this year.
I started adding Firefox addons and found the problem was to stop myself from adding more and more of them. As Aaron said, it's easy to forget that what is an addon is an addon and not part of the way the basic Firefox works.
I did add - colorful tabs; Delicious bookmarks (I like Delicious so might as well make it easy to add to sites to it); PDF download (still working out how to use this); Zotero; and the 23 Things toolbar (thanks, Aaron, this is great!).
I also switched to the Red Cats (blue flavor) theme - really rather cute.
I'd already downloaded LibX.
I added some resources to Zotero - the Australian War Memorial Collection Databases, two books from the Murdoch catalogue, an article from JSTOR, and the 'From History to Her Story' website. Being able to create a bibliography looks useful. I never have warmed to EndNote.
What would I use?
The Colorful Tabs addon is great - when you have lots of tabs open it does help to work out which is which.
The Murdoch library toolbar is also good - it puts all the 23 Things 2008 Things on my toolbar. I think this would be very helpful for people doing the programme this year.
LibX has lots of possibities - how many times have users said, "I've found this journal online and I thought Murdoch subscribed to it. Why can't I access it?". Answer: "If you haven't accessed via the Library's website and you're off campus, then you won't be authenticated. With LibX, you just right click anywhere on the page and choose 'reload via off campus access'."
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Thing 9, 2008: Google Docs and iGoogle
In 2008 Google Docs was Thing 9 and it was my job to present the Thing. I added iGoogle as a fun thing to do.
So ... Google Docs? Would be great for sharing the editing of a document, especially when the editors are not in one physical location with access to a shared folder on an intranet. Docs and Spreadsheets have all the basic functions that the equivalent Office products have. Perhaps, though, for work-related documents, once a document is finalised, it would be best shared somewhere more under control of the organisation that you work for. eg shared folder on intranet.
BTW, you can publish Google docs so they're available to anyone on the web. My published document is here.
As for iGoogle - that's just plain fun. However, it's useful to be able to pull all your 'things' together in and around the one page - feeds, gmail, and also the library's google gadget. Here is an image of my iGoogle page:
So ... Google Docs? Would be great for sharing the editing of a document, especially when the editors are not in one physical location with access to a shared folder on an intranet. Docs and Spreadsheets have all the basic functions that the equivalent Office products have. Perhaps, though, for work-related documents, once a document is finalised, it would be best shared somewhere more under control of the organisation that you work for. eg shared folder on intranet.
BTW, you can publish Google docs so they're available to anyone on the web. My published document is here.
As for iGoogle - that's just plain fun. However, it's useful to be able to pull all your 'things' together in and around the one page - feeds, gmail, and also the library's google gadget. Here is an image of my iGoogle page:
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
LibraryThing
This is my LibraryThing catalogue with suitably non-literary titles. I'm trying to add the blog widget...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Why no new posts since November last year?
I've finished 23 Things. However, I'm still posting to my RecentlyRead blog.
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