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Cool Tools for Webmasters October 28, 2007 Internet Librarian 2007 Frank Cervone Northwestern University Darlene Fichter University of Saskatchewan

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Cool Tools for WebmastersOctober 28, 2007

Internet Librarian 2007

Frank CervoneNorthwestern University

Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan

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Communicating Ideas

Photo: Grant Neufeld via Flickr (CC)

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Sketchcast.com

http://sketchcast.com/view/9q1zvgj

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JingProject.com

• Little app that’s always ready to capture and share images or screen

• Use when showing works better than telling– How do I change a setting?– How do I renew my books?

– How do I “Mark and Email” a list of articles?

From TechSmith who make Camtasia and Morare

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Checking Due Dates

http://screencast.com/t/pDcWyoTczks

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Just in Time Demos

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picnik

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Just For Fun!

http://www.kerpoof.com

http://www.kerpoof.com/create?view=7l1941k134h19

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Slideshare.net

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Other PowerPoint Sharing Tools

• Scribd – supports searching text

• SplashCast – combine PPT, mp3, images

• Zoho Show – edit online, jump to a slide• SlideAware – best stats, limit access

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thumbalizr.com

• Capture screen or page image• Default sizes: 150, 320, 640, 800,

1024 or 1280 or custom

Screen

Page

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Visual PageRank

www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank

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IBM Unstructured Information Modeler

• Analyze unstructured data sets• Automatically classify and create categories• Works for 1,000 to 10,000 records

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IBM Unstructured Information Modeler

• Examples– Feedback and comment forms from a beta

site– Tech support requests– Virtual reference transaction logs– All blog comments– All book reviews in the catalogue

• More info available in “Mining the Talk” by Scott Spangler, Jeffrey Kreulen

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Customizing # of Classes

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Drill Down, Create Reports

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Utilities

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http://www.diffdaff.com/

DiffDaff

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http://www.tucows.com/preview/504173

LogView

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Development

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SOAP Sonar

• Testing and analyzing Web Services – Web Services Functional Testing – Complex SOAP WSDL Support

– Identity Management

http://www.crosschecknet.com/

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http://www.home.no/evolved/

Evolved

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http://www.perl-express.com/

Perl Express

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Fun with images

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http://flash.dvd-photo-slideshow.com

Photo slideshow

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http://www.flashgallerygenerator.com/main.aspx

Flashgallery Generator

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Search and Indexing

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Google SiteMap Builder

http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/http://www.sitemapbuilder.net

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Open source federated searching

• Library Find (Oregon State)– http://libraryfind.org/

• dbWiz (Simon Fraser University)– http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/

• Masterkey (Index Data)– http://www.indexdata.dk/masterkey/

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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

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Google Coop CSE

www.google.com/coop/cse

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http://openly.oclc.org/openurlref/

OpenURL Referrer Toolbar

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Flog Blog

http://apps.facebook.com/flogblog/

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Freedom

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Pack Your Own Browser

• Portable Firefox – bundled with portable apps to take bookmarks, extensions, passwords

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But wait…there’s more!

• Asterisk Logger v1.02 - Reveal passwords behind asterisks (***)

• Undelete – Recovers Deleted 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