Carie Lewis has a great guide to monitoring your brand using iGoogle, it’s easy, free and most of us already have a Google account, plus it pulls all the information into one place. She includes 5 different categories: Brand – mentions of your name, including acronyms, misspellings, etc Current – issues that people are talking about that involve you right now Detractors – people you know don’t like you but talk about you Competition – people in the same space as you Staff – prominent people in your org, like your CEO And includes a great list of places you should monitoring: Google Alerts – I hope you know what they are and are already using them! Filtrbox – a paid monitoring service to make sure we catch everything Tweetmeme – tells you the most popular tweets about a subject Twitter Search – shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don’t use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately) Technorati – shows blogs that mention certain keywords Blogpulse – another blog monitoring tool Digg – shows most popular articles on the web Boardreader – shows forum posts by keyword Some additional readings 100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media Top
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Search Flickr by Color
I came across this cool tool from Idée on Circulation this morning. It allows you to search Flickr Creative Commons liscensed photos (or photos from Alamy) by clicking on the color or colors you want the photos to have. You then click on the thumbnail to get the photo and the liscense information. The only down side is the collage doesn’t list the url of the photos it generates so you can’t really use it as a whole and follow the attribution part of CC. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
The new MaintainIT cookbook is out – The Joy of Computing
MaintainIT cookbooks are a great (free) resource! “Planning for Success, a guide for the overworked librarian” one covers: Planning and Decision Making covers the ins and outs of creating a technology plan that ties to your strategic priorities and goals. Communication and Partnerships delves in the fundamentals of day-to-day technology communication from a “techie” and “non-techie” perspective. It also includes some important guidelines for working and collaborating with key stakeholders. Buying and Deploying Technology goes through some of the core actions and decisions you need to consider when planning deployments, installations, and upgrades. Maintaining and Sustaining Technology offers important insight into the daily management of public computers. Networking and Security covers some of the basic standards and practices for ensuring your library’s network security. Innovation highlights the true value of today’s libraries and the role in serving as the center of new community conversations via a much higher level of user interactivity and experiences. If you are ready for Web 2.0, this is a good place to start. You can find the new Cookbook here: http://www.maintainitproject.org/cookbooks/planning-for-success Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe
Photoshop Express
Looking for a free way to edit your photos online? There are lots of options but today one more joins they frey and it’s already got name recognition on it’s side. Adobe Photoshop Express allows you to load pictures from Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa. There are plenty of tools, but of course not everything that the paid version does, but still for a free tool, it’s pretty nice. Go check it out. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Lib Camp KS Session 1 – Free & Cheap
My first session was Free & Cheap, the idea was to share free and cheap tools we’re using at our libraries or for ourselves. Someone (I can’t remember who) made a good point, there is a difference between free beer and free kittens, kittens take a bit more work. Some of these might require some work on your end. I think I got all of them. Windows Live Sky drive Survey Monkey Ccleaner Spybot search and destory adaware Hijackthis Firefox web developer extension IrfanView Rockyou.com slide.com slideshare Open Office wordpress mykansaslibrary.org audacity List Garden – generate RSS feed - Google calender sync zoho.com - Time tracking for public PCs - Password safe - 1password – for Macs, not free libstats – to track reference questions Meebome – IM reference services All the Firefox add ons Personal Ancestral File - Geni - opensourcemac.org – open source tools for mac users lifehacker koha vizu. libraryelf - libx Last but not least PC Magazine has an article on 157 best free software tools If you know of a great Free or Cheap tool that isn’t on this list please let me know and I’ll edit and add them at the bottom! Bookmark on
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