"How blog reading can make you look brilliant"
She mentioned many blogs in her presentation including Shiny Shiny, Indexed and Lifehacker.
She stated that our role is "chief information officer". (Which I agree with!)
Some sites she mentioned:
AAA Fuel Cost Calculator
Jot-it (where you can leave yourself an electronic note)
Even a texting translator!
She proceeded to define what a blog is: "A website with entries in reverse chronological order with catagories."
There are 3 different kinds of blogs:
- Personal/ point of view (covering events and impressions)
- Practical/purposeful (new resources/links)
- Philosophical/polemical (exploration/big ideas)
You can use blogs to further your professional development. They provide:
- Instant information
- Hot topic in the profession
- Lifelong learners
- Conversation/collaboration among professionals
She mentioned:
a wiki on Children's book series
Something that allows you to send messages back and forth called Twitter
California Dreamin' (Rob Darrow's blog)
An excellent resource on Fair Use: Tales from the Public Domain
Periodic Table of Visualization
RSS on any page will allow you to subscribe to the blogs you are interested in. These subscriptions are put into a reader such as Yahoo! or Google Reader
RSS gathers in the information, puts it into a virtual file cabinet, and allows you to share the resources you have found.
RSS tutorials:
RSS in plain English http://blip.tv/file/205570
Other websites mentioned:
Flickr (World's largest location for photographs)
Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)
Ted talks (audiocasting of a design conference done by the top people in various fields)
Directory of open access journals http://www.doaj.org/
America's favorite architecture
How to make things with a single sheet of paper http://www.instructables.com/
She also said that you can set up webfeeds in Ebsco and Proquest to send updated information on subject searches. (I will need to check this out!)
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