NEASIST event: Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: Megan’s talk
Megan Fox is giving an overview: Tools in Personal Environments: A Taste of New Technologies. Here are a few ideas that I’m interested in:
- there is a mobile edition of Bloglines (for phones)
- Personalized RSS: Library Elf (I’m using this one already)
- Podcast: Schoolhouse Rock
- use wikis for staff manuals (reference docs) (UWinnipeg Library)
- Wiki for the ALA Conference in Chicago, everyone can contribute, local restaurants, free wifi hotspots, etc.
- let your users create subject guides using Wikis, or book recommendations from users
- IM for reference (taking off)
- Dawgtel (Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale): text message service
- Google Toolbar (I just started using the A9 Toolbar myself).
- desktop search: she talked about Google Deskbar (for Windows), but now that the new Mac OS Tiger is out, I’ll be trying Spotlight as soon as I get my new Powerbook (coming soon!)
- Bloglines bookmarklet
- Yahoo MyWeb
- A9 toolbar: just got this myself yesterday
- idea: take a photo of the library’s new books, put it on Flickr, and link to the new book list on the library’s web site
There is a lot more, but I just wanted to capture a few thoughts for myself here.
