We successfully recorded the Information Management Workshop.  It ended up in two parts.
 Part 1
Part 2 
We covered using Google Reader and RSS Feeds generally, EndNote Web, del.icio.us, and Zotero.

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Shameless self-promotion.  Here’s a podcast I did at ELI with Veronica Diaz.  We talk Web 2.0, faculty support and education.  Enjoy.

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Google has announced the ability to use spreadsheets combined with a form to collect data.  Let’s try it out.  Here’s a link to my form.

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Via the Wired Campus Blog, I found Pronetos, a facebook-like app for sharing research and connecting with scholars. I like the look and feel of it. It’s missing some of the more fun elements of social networking, but it’s definitely got potential. Of course, I set up an account. Like I needed another social networking [...]

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First, there’s this video on the Information R/evolution:
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I’m in the middle of reading Everything is Miscellaneous, which I highly recommend to anyone who regularly creates, stores, uses, or interacts with information of any kind–which is almost all of us. This video in combination with the book are really hitting home. [...]

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Following up on Catherine’s post about Google presentations, here’s a video that explains the basic concept and why using something like Google docs is way better than emailing documents around.
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I am a devoted evangelist of free office applications that chip away at the hegemony of Microsoft Office. Last week while on duty here in the New Media Lab, a fellow student asked me if I knew where she could get the new Microsoft Office for her Mac- and I encouraged her to instead [...]

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I’m very excited to be bringing to campus some wonderfully innovative teachers and researchers to talk about social software, Steven Greenlaw, Jean-Claude Bradley, and Jim Groom.  I’ve been reading Steven Greenlaw’s blog, Pedablogy, for a number of years now. He writes about his thoughts on teaching, often right in the midst of a sticky situation [...]

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This week, Mark and I talked to Tim Burke from Swarthmore College and Collin Brooke from Syracuse University about various issues related to Academic Publishing in the web 2.0 world. They’ve both written in their blogs about these issues. Here are some of the posts that inspired the show:
Fun with Intellectual Property Issues
If [...]

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In this episode, we cover several bibliography tools and issues surrounding their use.
Episode 15 (mp3, about 16mb)
Links we covered:
My EndNote
Zotero
CiteULike
BibMe
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