October 31, 2007
Cool Tools for Library Webmasters (Internet Librarian 2007)
Cool Tools is a repeating Internet Librarian session, and always one of my favorites. Darlene Fichter and Frank Cervone do a great job and who doesn't want to know about cool tools! By the way, the usefulness of many of these sites and/or utilities aren't limited to web masters.
Most of these tools are fairly self-explanatory, so I'll simply list them with an occasional comment and you can browse.
Images
Sketchcasting – blog using sketches instead of words.
Jing Project – capture and share image or videos.
Picnik – Online photo editor, can use as a plug-in for IE or Firefox. Send your page to picknik and crop-it, etc. Handy for screencapture and editing. Can capture the whole, full, page. Can save the file locally or send to Flickr or Facebook.
Just for Fun
PowerPoint Sharing Tools
Slideshare.net – Presentation will be on slideshare.net. Can comment, ask questions, etc. Can add audio.
Scribd – good for very long Powerpoint
Splashcast – combine ppt, mp3 images, multi-media
Zoho Show – edit online, jump to a slide.
SlideAware – limited access for free, best stats,
Thumbnails
Thumbalizr.com – capture screen or page image, creates thumbnails.
Visualization
Visual PageRank – shows content along with the rankings.
IBM Unstructured information Modeler - Analyze unstructured data sets, automatically classify and create categories, works for 1,000 to 10,000 records.
Utilities
Diffdaff – compares directory listings
SOAP Sonar – testing and analyzing web services.
Evolved - text editor that adapts to whatever language you’re using
Perl Express
Fun with Images
Photo slideshow – take photos and creates a flash show.
Get a directory structure with web page and flash files.
Flashgallery Generator – xml based . Change the slideshow depending upon the context.
Search and Indexing
Google SiteMap Builder – an xml file you upload to your server, sitemap specifically for google, so they can index your site. Harvests all the information and creates the xml file.
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
Put in web sites to crawl.
Download and load on your server
Google Coop CSE
Can integrate the search engine directly into your web pages and make it look more like an integrated whole. The search engine results are integrated into your page, doesn’t look like google, but looks more like your site.
Open URL Referrer Toolbar
If you have an open URL resolver in your organization, you can download this and whenever they go into Google or Google Scholar, it will give them the option to resolve it with your URL resolver. Gives specific buttons that will direct the user to the local information. Can configure with Google Scholar.
Flog Blog
Easy way to integrate blog content into your facebook page.
Portable Browsers and Password Trackers
Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords.
Asterisk Logger v1.02 – Reveal passwords behind asterisks
Undelete – Recovers delete 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.
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Inspiration for Your Web Site Redesign (Internet Librarian 2007)
There were plenty of good tips to be had in this session on redesigning your library web site. But the most interesting idea was to include a "surprise!" link. They included this link on one of the library web sites (sorry, I don't remember which one) and apparently a lot of people click on it, and are happy with the tidbits of information about library services that they find there. It probably wouldn't work for lawyers, I don't think they tend to like surprises, but it's a fun idea, nonetheless.
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