Thursday, May 17, 2007

GUGM 2007 Presentation Links

Here are links to things that I talked about/ played/ showed during my talk "The World of Social Software" at GUGM 2007 in Fort Valley, GA. Take a look at my presentation page for more information including the PPT from the session.

The music I played before the session was by Hermon Hitson.

The Machine Is Us/ing Us

RSS In Plain English

Blogs:
North Metro Tech View From The Library
George Mason University Law Library Circulation Blog
Circ And Serve

Flickr:
Libraries and Librarians Group
Georgia State University Library Transformation
Flickr As A Training Tool (scroll down to section for presentation)

Podcasts:
Georgia Perimeter Decatur Campus Library
Ohio University Alden Library Audio Tour
WPI Audio To Go
Library Guide For Nursing (Cal State Fullerton)

YouTube:
The L-Team (Williams College)
Information and Circulation (Cal State Long Beach)
ENGbaseNET (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Playlist (Includes sleepy kitty and other videos I didn't show during the session)

Two For Fun:
Twitter
Pandora(Information about the fight over new royalty rates for online streaming radio is available on SaveNetRadio.org)

Try Me, I'm New:
Meebo Rooms

Thanks so much for coming to the session. I had a blast and hope you had fun and learned something as well.

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GUGM 2007: Lies, D@#n Lies, and Missing Teeth

UGA folks

pay stats/ free stats:
fedstats
first search
google gvt search
umich gov docs

ad driven metasearch:
nationmaster -mashup w/ wikipedia (content from wikipedia), limited search
statemaster - state version, comments under each page of stats, related sites links weird

open bible - bible/ google earth mashup, cool use of free info

impt to evaluate info from pay/ ad driven sites: purpose/sources/geography/years/content/viability/functionality

dataplace.org
- good site, housing stuff, nice run down of contents of sources, data from other sources in new interface

social networking + online stats:
swivel- shows source for stats, comments etc, see what other people are doing, can upload your own spreadsheet info or type in yr own data, very current

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