Access to information is no longer a problem—managing the information onslaught is! The Web offers great tools for increasing your efficiency, but only if you know where to look and how to use them. This helpful and informative crash course in information management will introduce you to both the “standards” (RSS feeds and social bookmarking) and the cutting edge (My6Sense and Greplin), and take you from white belt to ninja in an hour and half.

1. Tips & tricks for managing
information onslaught
Kimberley R. Barker, Emerging Technology Librarian

2.  White belt: learn how to make information
come to you
 Blue belt: learn how to manage the ifnormation
once it’s streaming in
 Ninja: learn how to meta-manage & customize
the information

3. Warning!
It usually takes more than one session to become an
information management expert.
Individual consults with librarian-ninjas are available, so don’t hesitate
to contact us if you would like to schedule a time to meet.

4. Let’s get started!

5. White belt training includes:
•RSS feeds
•Search alerts
•Social bookmarking

6.  RSS Feeds/Atom
 “Really Simple Syndication”
 Visiting websites is like going to a restaurant;
subscribing to feeds is like getting delivery.

8. http://www.google.com/alerts
*Alerts are a standard feature of
most search engines. Google is
but one example.

9.  Social bookmarking
 “… a method for Internet users to organize, store,
manage and search for bookmarks of resources
online.” – Wikipedia
 Accomplished through tagging: “…the process by
which many users add metadata in the form of
keywords to shared content.” (Golder & Huberman)

10.  Allows you to:
 access your bookmarks from anywhere (device &
internet connection)
 easily share information
 perform more focused searching (but beware the
folksonomy!)

11.  Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
 Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return
 Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the
web
 http://www.delicious.com/help/about
 My favorite features:
 Easy-to-use interface
 Browser add-on makes tagging quick and easy
 Ability to create tag bundles, tag subscriptions, and networks
 Delicious is very popular (the more people who use a site and tag
content, the better it is)

13. Let’s get started!

14.  Evernote
 Citation management software
 Annotation software

15.  Program that allows you to:
 Gather information (photos, e-mails, websites, notes,
screenshots, etc)
 Organize it (automatically processes, indexes and
makes searchable; you can further organize with tags
and folders)
 Retrieve info via tags, titles, and keywords– even
within images
 Share your information with others: all of it, or some
of it

16.  Three ways to access
 Log in at Evernote.com
 Download Evernote to your computer and open the
program
 From your mobile device
*Warning: the three interfaces are fairly different, and
not as intuitive as they could be.

17.  “… software for scholars and authors to use for
recording and utilising bibliographic citations
“– Wikipedia
 Examples
 Mendeley
 Zotero
 Refworks
 Endnote
 Papers

20.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of
_reference_management_software

21.  iAnnotate-iPad
 PDF Xchange Viewer- Windows PC
 Preview- Mac

24.  “Freemium”- Free version includes:
 Add comments and annotations
 Mark up pages
 Type directly on the pdf
 Extract text
 Send pdf’s via email from within Viewer
 Compatable with Windows 2000 & later

25.  Mac
 “…offers essential editing capabilities, such as
resizing, rotation and cropping, and even lets you
annotations to share your comments.”
 Annotate, add keywords, and documents are
automatically indexed- find with OSX’s Spotlight
search engine
 Comes standard on a Mac, just as Safari does (Within
Preview, Tools menu -> Annotate)

26. Greplin
My6sense
Know About It

27.  Indexes information that you create in places
like Gmail, Twitter and Facebook, and provides
a search engine for it
 Keep everything in one place- no more
multiple log-ins in search of a piece of
information

30. “…a mobile RSS reader that syncs with your Google
Reader account (all of it, not just the first one thousand
feeds like so many imitations!) and then watches how
you interact with the items. It knows when you are
reading, it knows when you’ve shared a link. It then
offers two views of all your subscriptions: their most
recent posts and the My6Sense recommended posts. The
service learns from your behavior over time and offers a
quality mobile feed reading experience.”
-- ReadWriteWeb

31. How it works
collects links found in your social “streams” and sends them to you
makes recommendations based on what you are already doing
within social networks

34.  You have wrestled the bears of information
and stood in the icy streams of organizational
management.
 YOU ARE NOW AN IM NINJA!

35.  Please get in touch!
 Kimberley R. Barker, Emerging Technology
Librarian, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
 krb3k@virginia.edu
 434.243.4806