- 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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- Autism &learning disabilities news & resources
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- Medicine and Medical Gadgets and Tools
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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
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- Example iGoogle Home page
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23. THEMES 24.
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- Search for themes (history)
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- Search themes results (history)
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- Search themes results (health, causes, marketing,
fundraising)
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- Comments and discussion community building
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- Creator / developer information
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- Comments and discussion community building
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- Make your own theme almost done
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41. GADGETS 42. Want More Gadgets?Click Add Stuff 43.
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- 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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- Add more content to your gadget
- Remember to update content as you make changes to the YouTube
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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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- 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
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- How many articles do you want listed?
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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
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70. MANAGING YOUR TABS 71.
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- no relevant content was found
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- Search results for Michigan
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75. FINISHING TOUCHES 76.
- Are we done? Lets take a look
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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
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- Another way to change the look and feel of the page is in edit
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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
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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/