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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing # 8: Wikis
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10 Things or So Exercises. Monday, February 4, 2008. Thing # 8: Wikis. From Wiki, a Hawaiian word for “fast”). According to Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham. Who is credited with developing the first wiki, a wiki is “ The simplest online database that could possibly work. Which ought to be definitive on the matter, defines a wiki as “software that allows users to create, edit, and link web pages easily. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites.". In the UCI Librari...
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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing 4: Tagging Using Technorati
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10 Things or So Exercises. Saturday, November 10, 2007. Thing 4: Tagging Using Technorati. Blog- and tag search engines (such as Technorati, TagJag, Google Blog Search, Yahoo! My Web, IceRocket, Feedster…), then, search these assigned tags (as well as keywords in the text of blog entries) to produce their results. But how do blogs, which might be updated several times a day, address the issue of having their content found by these search engines? To manually ping Technorati. Then go to Ping-o-Matic.
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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing 10: Chatting with Skype & Meebo
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10 Things or So Exercises. Monday, April 21, 2008. Thing 10: Chatting with Skype and Meebo. There are many different ways to “chat” online using Internet telephony software (voice chatting) or. Instant messaging software (text based chatting). In the lesson, we’ll explore voice chatting with Skype and. Text chatting with Meebo. Chatting Online with Skype. Skype is easy to install software that, in essence, turns your computer into a telephone. Skype initiated conference calls are free, with no long dista...
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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing 5: RSS Feeds & Readers
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10 Things or So Exercises. Thursday, November 15, 2007. Thing 5: RSS Feeds and Readers. Is a file format for delivering frequently updated and dynamic web content directly to the reader like a newspaper. It is used for news, blogs, journals, databases and more. It delivers headlines from which you may choose to read a full posting. It is typically represented as an orange. This week’s exercise focuses on learning about RSS. News feeds and setting up a Bloglines. If you prefer to use Google Reader. Use th...
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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing 9: Getting Personal with iGoogle
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10 Things or So Exercises. Friday, March 7, 2008. Thing 9: Getting Personal with iGoogle. In response to user preferences for having custom content delivered directly to their doorstep, Google launched a product called iGoogle. Google press release, 2005. On this self-designed page, you choose and organize your content, so instead of seeing the default interface:. You have a personalized page that provides quick access to your favorite information:. What kind of things can you do with widgets. Also suppo...
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10 Things or So Exercises: Thing 7: Social Bookmarking and Folksonomies
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10 Things or So Exercises. Friday, January 18, 2008. Thing 7: Social Bookmarking and Folksonomies. In the past, annotating information resources was pretty much the exclusive pursuit of librarians - well not anymore! In the Web 2.0 landscape, users are applying their own natural language to describe, organize, and facilitate retrieval to and discovery of online content such as photos, articles, podcasts, and web pages. These user-generated annotations go by many names, including. Why are people doing this.
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UCI Libraries 10 Things: Welcome!
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UCI Libraries 10 Things. Welcome to the UCI Libraries’ Learning 2.0 Program. Building on the Public Services summer series of brown bag discussions, "Continuing the Conversation about Libraries and Librarians in a Web 2.0 World.," the Public Services and Collections Divisions are sponsoring a program, UCI Libraries’ List of 10 Things or So. For staff to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people and libraries access information and communicate with each other.