Cool Tools for Library 2.0

Brainify is a social bookmarking tool intended for students and faculty at colleges and universities. Brainify users bookmark web sites relevant to college courses and academic subject areas and (ideally) share those bookmarks by forming and joining course-specific or subject-specific groups. Bookmarks on Brainify are not only tagged -- they are also categorized within a browsable taxonomy of academic subject areas. In this podcast I describe a few of Brainify’s features and discuss reasons why students might want to try using Brainify.

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Shelfari is an online social cataloging site that allows users to build a virtual bookshelf. They can rate, review, tag and discuss books with online friends. Users can join groups and discuss topics with other users of the Shelfari website. The site can be linked to your blog, facebook page, and myspace page. Listen to the following podcast to learn more.

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Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text -- and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their entire organization, or the world. All you need is access to the Internet, a google account (gmail) and a small chunk of time. It's free and easy to use.

SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. With SlideShare, you can upload your Power Point presentations to share privately or to publish to the entire SlideShare community. You can use SlideShare to find presentations that interest you and network with other users. This podcast explains ways in which SlideShare will be useful for librarians.




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