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A quick introduction to iGoogle for personal, professional, and enterprise use. Included: branding, how to create and edit gadgets, adding customized RSS feeds and database searches.
Transcript of iGoogle for Productivity and Outreach
- 1.iGoogle for Productivityand Outreach by PF Anderson Emerging Technologies Librarian April 21, 2009
2. IDEAS
- Things you might do with iGoogle
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- University of Michigan themed collection
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- General Health
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- Diet & Nutrition
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- Fitness & Exercise
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- Stress Tips
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- Yoga & Meditation
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- Autism &learning disabilities news & resources
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- Public Health
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- Medicine and Medical Gadgets and Tools
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- Life Science Researchers
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- Promote your unit here is the library!
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- For fun? Astronomy Theme Semester
15. GETTING STARTED 16.
- The beginning sign in to iGoogle, or create a Google account
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- iGoogle login screen
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- Choose topics
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- Example iGoogle Home page
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- Delete this gadget
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- Edit settings
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- Minimize gadget
23. THEMES 24.
- Change theme
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- Themes homepage
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- Artist themes
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- Game themes
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- Causes themes
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- Search for themes (history)
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- Search themes results (history)
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- Theme details
- Creator details
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- Search themes results (health, causes, marketing, fundraising)
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- Theme details
- Creator details
- Comments and discussion community building
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- Creator / developer information
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- Theme details
- Creator details
- Comments and discussion community building
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- Change theme
- Easy undo option
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- Notice the donate button
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- Make your own theme
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- Make your own theme almost done
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- Done! (Sakura in Gold)
41. GADGETS 42. Want More Gadgets?Click Add Stuff 43.
- Find gadgets
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- You might also like
- Useful tools like Google Tip of the Day, and Google Translate
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- People who like Google Calendar also like other productivity tools
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- Search for gadgets (health)
- Search for gadgets (health)
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- Search results for health
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- Editors picks
- And other categories
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- Add feed or gadget
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- Create your own gadget
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- Make your own gadget
- Sample forms:
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- Framed photo
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- GoogleGram
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- Daily Me
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- Free Form
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- YouTube Channel
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- Personal List
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- Bens YouTube Station
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- Building the gadget
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- Add more content to your gadget
- Remember to update content as you make changes to the YouTube site
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- UMHS YouTube Gadget
- Publishing options
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- New gadgets are added to active tab
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- But you can move them, edit the tab, or simply drag to another tab (very carefully)
58. ADDING RSS FEEDS TO IGOOGLE 59.
- Examples of Public Health custom RSS feeds for journals, news, clinical alerts, and disaster response information
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- Finding feeds
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- Copy URL from location bar
- Paste URL into feed selection window, click ADD
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- Back to iGoogle, feed is there, move it where you want it.
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- Adding a custom PubMed search as an RSS feed gadget in iGoogle
- Send to RSS
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- Customize your settings
- How many articles do you want listed?
- Click Create Feed
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- Click on the XML button
67. Copy the URL 68.
- Paste into feed/gadget form, click add
- Voila! The RSS feed is added to your iGoogle tab.
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- My own personal specialized PubMed search, right where I want it.
70. MANAGING YOUR TABS 71.
- Make a new tab
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- Auto-fill
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- no relevant content was found
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- Search results for Michigan
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- Select your tools
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- Click on Add it now
- Highlighted examples
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- Michigan Daily
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- Weather
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- Law Library
75. FINISHING TOUCHES 76.
- Are we done? Lets take a look
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- Lets move things around
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- Hunh? How did you do that?
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- 1. Grab menu bar of gadget
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- 2. Drag to desired position
1. 2. 79.
- Another way to change the look and feel of the page is in edit view
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- Sharing your tab once your are done with it
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- Select items you want to share
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- Use email address of person you want to share it with
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- Send it to yourself if you want aURL to put it in a blog or web page as a link
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- Send settings if youve customized the gadgets in important ways, otherwise dont
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- This is what it looks like to edit settings (fyi, every gadget is different)
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- Sometimes things quit working right after a while
iGoogle maintenance 83. CONTACT INFORMATION
- PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,UM Health Sciences Libraries, [email protected]
- Slides will be at: http://slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/