Wicked Cool

Fifty Ways to Take Notes

Via Rebecca's Pocket, the Solution watch blog has posted Fifty Ways to Take Notes. Try some out the next time you're at a conference or meeting, or find a favorite to recommend to library patrons to save their research.

My favorite new find is ShortText: it's incredibly fast and easy, and requires no registration. You can set a password ("key") if you want to keep notes private.

The author also lists a few neat personal start pages - like Netvibes, PageFlakes, Protopage, Fold, and Google Personalized - where you can gather your daily info (like various RSS feeds & weather) and handy tools.

Wacky Website: Stare Down Sally

Stare Down Sally is a game from Stairwell Studios that has been around for a dog's age in Internet time - but that doesn't make it any less unsettling!

Blazing New Trails at the SCLS Annual Meeting

It was great to see many of you at the SCLS Annual Meeting in Devil's Lake last week! Jean Anderson and I gave a 10-minute talk about "Blazing New Trails" to kick off the discussion about how to stay on top of change in the library world. Below, for your convenience, is our bibliography. Jean rounded up all this great information, so all the credit goes to her; be sure to check out her new Continuing Education blog, Know More, and leave a comment saying hi!

Benefits of RSS
WebJunction’s Weekly Tips article from April 23, 2007

If I had just 15 minutes each day by Meredith Farkas

Keeping Up when you Don't Have the Time by Jenny Levine

Keeping Up with Keeping Up. Gordon, Rachel Singer and Michael Stephens.
Computers in Libraries 26, no. 9:52-53. 2006.

Keeping up with Really Simple Syndication (rss). Goldsborough, Reid.
Teacher Librarian 34, no. 3:51. 2007.

Kelly Watson's Bloglines Tutorial (pdf)

Librarians Keeping Up and Making Time

DwarfURL

Tana @ MPL brought my attention to DwarfURL, a tool with which you can shorten monster URLs to include in email addresses, etc. It works like TinyURL, except that it also lets you track how many times people click on the link you create. Nifty!