Cool Tools for Library Webmasters - Internet Librarian 2007

Slide 1: Cool Tools for Webmasters October 28, 2007 Internet Librarian 2007 Frank Cervone Darlene Fichter Northwestern University University of Saskatchewan

Slide 2: Communicating Ideas Photo: Grant Neufeld via Flickr (CC)

Slide 3: Sketchcast.com http://sketchcast.com/view/9q1zvgj

Slide 4: JingProject.com • Little app that’s always ready to capture and share images or screen • Use when showing works better than telling – How do I change a setting? – How do I renew my books? – How do I “Mark and Email” a list of articles? From TechSmith who make Camtasia and Morare

Slide 5: Checking Due Dates http://screencast.com/t/pDcWyoTczks

Slide 6: Just in Time Demos

Slide 7: picnik

Slide 8: Just For Fun! http://www.kerpoof.com http://www.kerpoof.com/create?view=7l1941k134h19

Slide 9: Slideshare.net

Slide 10: Other PowerPoint Sharing Tools • Scribd – supports searching text • SplashCast – combine PPT, mp3, images • Zoho Show – edit online, jump to a slide • SlideAware – best stats, limit access

Slide 11: thumbalizr.com • Capture screen or page image • Default sizes: 150, 320, 640, 800, 1024 or 1280 or custom Screen Page

Slide 12: Visual PageRank www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank

Slide 13: IBM Unstructured Information Modeler • Analyze unstructured data sets • Automatically classify and create categories • Works for 1,000 to 10,000 records

Slide 14: IBM Unstructured Information Modeler • Examples – Feedback and comment forms from a beta site – Tech support requests – Virtual reference transaction logs – All blog comments – All book reviews in the catalogue • More info available in “Mining the Talk” by Scott Spangler, Jeffrey Kreulen

Slide 15: Customizing # of Classes

Slide 16: Drill Down, Create Reports

Slide 17: Utilities Photo by p2wy via Flickr (CC)

Slide 18: DiffDaff http://www.diffdaff.com/

Slide 20: LogView http://www.tucows.com/preview/504173

Slide 21: Development Photo by Purple Cloud via Flickr (CC)

Slide 22: SOAP Sonar • Testing and analyzing Web Services – Web Services Functional Testing – Complex SOAP WSDL Support – Identity Management http://www.crosschecknet.com/

Slide 23: Evolved http://www.home.no/evolved/

Slide 24: Perl Express http://www.perl-express.com/

Slide 25: Fun with images Photo by joyyagid via Flickr (CC)

Slide 26: Photo slideshow http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com

Slide 29: Flashgallery Generator http://www.flashgallerygenerator.com/main.aspx

Slide 30: Search and Indexing Photo by reclusivemonkey via Flickr (CC)

Slide 31: Google SiteMap Builder http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/ http://www.sitemapbuilder.net

Slide 32: Open source federated searching • Library Find (Oregon State) – http://libraryfind.org/ • dbWiz (Simon Fraser University) – http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/ • Masterkey (Index Data) – http://www.indexdata.dk/masterkey/

Slide 33: IBM Omnifind Yahoo Edition • Supports up to 500,000 documents • Go from installer to searching in minutes • Easy to use graphical tools to configure look-and-feel • Configurable synonyms and featured links increase relevancy

Slide 39: Google Coop CSE www.google.com/coop/cse

Slide 42: OpenURL Referrer Toolbar http://openly.oclc.org/openurlref/

Slide 47: Flog Blog http://apps.facebook.com/flogblog/

Slide 48: Freedom Photo by colodio via Flickr (CC)

Slide 49: Pack Your Own Browser • Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords

Slide 50: But wait…there’s more! • Asterisk Logger v1.02 - Reveal passwords behind asterisks (***) • Undelete – Recovers Deleted Files, Unerases Lost Data • Unstoppable Copier – Recover all bytes from scratched CDs • Simple File Shredder – Securely delete files so they can't be restored • KeePass – Store all your passwords in one database, locked with one master key