Category: Web/Tech
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Idea for Screencasting on YouTube
Well I couldn’t get it to work in the 2 minutes I had left at the end of the day to play with it, but YouTube now allows you to record yourself from within YouTube, using your own webcam. So what’s the next obvious choice? Allow you to record your own desktop directly to YouTube! …
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Your own personal repository
So you say you work at a smaller academic institution without an institutional repository, or even in a non-academic setting? But you still publish work related to Library and Information Science? Have I got a site for you! I know I’m not the first to find it, but I haven’t seen it mentioned as much…
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Get paid $100/hour to search Google
Wow, that really sounds like spam, doesn’t it! Hope I don’t end up on blacklists for anyone receiving my posts via email… Anyhoo, I don’t know how to land such a choice gig, but Jon Udell has an interesting post about what goes on in his mind as he works through internet searches that are…
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Citation Managers Galore
We have the web-based RefWorks here at the U of C, and are in the middle of a big marketing campaign for it. It’s pretty slick, but if you don’t have it at your school (or, gasp! don’t go to school), what are you to do? Lorcan Dempsy points to a long list of suggestions…
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Screencasting Q&A
OK, there will only be one more post referencing my SirsiDynix Institute presentation on Screencasting; I’ll let you know when the actual session recording is available to both watch and hear. Right now the mp3 is available; of course you’ll be missing the demos I showed. The real purpose of this post is to wrap-up…
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But what if I just bought the old version?
I’m slowly putting together the answers to all the questions that were asked during my SirsiDynix Institute session on Screencasting last week. One person asked if I was sure that version 4 of Camtasia was out, as she had just bought version 3.x the previous week. I am sure, and told her that if she’d…
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SirsiDynix Screencasting Links
These are the links that I referenced during my Introduction to Screencasting seminar for the SirsiDynix Institute. The archived seminar will soon be available online, and when it is I’ll replace this sentence with a link to it. The examples that I hope to show include: Book Title Search from Central Michigan University’s Off Campus…
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Dotto on Libraries
Here in Canada we have a TV tech show for the layman called DottoTech, and a couple of months ago Steve Dotto ran a brief segment about using your local Public Library to access licensed databases. That clip (about 3 minutes) is now available online. I hope you won’t learn anything as a librarian from…
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Good to know about Feed2JS and Spam
Hot on the heels of the talk Meredith Farkas and I gave at Internet Librarian on using Feed2JS (and some other tools) comes this post from RSS4Lib warning about the misappropriation of a locally installed version of Feed2JS. Basically, if you do choose to install the software on your own server, Ken points out that…