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Top Ten Links Week 9

March 5, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 9

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 2/26/2010 thru 3/04/2010 1 . Are We Becoming Our Own Puppetmasters? – a thought-provoking post from Venessa Miemis asking the questions “What do our online personas do to our physical-world identities? As we invest more time into developing our digital selves, is something taken away from who we are? Or something added?” 2. Librarian Essay Contest: 22 Essays in 28 Days via @LISNews: - go vote on your favorite essays and keep an eye out for the winner. 3. Do You Make These 3 Common Mistakes When Trying to Improve Your Self Confidence? – I know I have been guilty of all of them at some point. You sit around and hope that you can solve it in your mind somehow. You focus on the wrong things. You don’t prepare. 4.  Online Content Should Never Have Been Free via @libraryriot @Newsweek:- an interesting look at what we expect to pay for content changes based on the format in which we access it. 5. Has Digital Media Changed American Youth? what effect is the connections of social media having on the young? 6. Brainwashed: Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself via @VenessaMiemis: Awesome Manifesto by @sethgodins

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Lib Camp KS Session 1 – Free & Cheap

March 20, 2008
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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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