The Google Wave directory of helpful waves!

In my attempt to keep up with emerging technologies I could not forget Google Wave of course. Finally I got an account and am now exploring the possibilities. Helpfull in this were a couple of specific public waves:

1. The Google Wave Directory of helpful waves (you need a GW account to access the waves)
   
   
   Links:
   
   ABCs of Wave
   
   Comprehensive Google Wave Extensions List
   
   Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
   
   Google Wave From The Start - Tips for new users and beginners
   
   Google Wave on the iPhone/iPod Touch
   
   Google Wave: :SUGGESTIONS:
   
   How are you managing your inbox?
   
   How To Make *GROUP* Waves RELOADED/ RIP Public?
   
   HTML Gadget - Add HTML to your Wave
   
   iGoogle Gadgets That Work Inside Wave
   
   Keyboard Shortcuts for Google Wave.
   
   SHOW OFF YOUR GADGETS - provide the URL
   
   Official DC, VA, MD Wave
   
   Wave Extensions/Plugins/Whatnot
   
   Wave Guide Discussion 0.0
   
   Wave Guide: Waves Greatest Hits
   
   Welcome to Google \/\/ave  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Other useful or interesting links:

• Librarians Wave Directory 
• eResearch Community Wave 
• Research Collaborations in Wave 
• HTML Gadget - Add HTML to your Wave
  
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  #hcsmeu
  
  Gathering together all Europeans* interested in healthcare: patients, healthcare professionals, pharma, national/private health institutions, content providers, legal interests http://is.gd/4mlIh (4/8/09)  
  
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  EMTACL10 : Emerging technologies in Academic Libraries ( Public Wave )
  
  — the international conference for cutting-edge technological developments in libraries within higher-education.
   
  
  

A Getsatisfaction widget on your Netvibes public page

I really love the Google Toolbar Page Translate option ... This way I was abled to read the Hungarian Netvibes public page from http://www.netvibes.com/ovidspclassroom. The owner -Edit Csajbok
Semmelweis University Central Library- wanted to know how to put a GetSatisfaction widget in there, like we use at http://www.netvibes.com/cmb.
I have put the code in a Google doc to share.

Libraries leveraging Facebook and Twitter

#midwestmla09 is the hash tag for the Midwest MLA 2009 conference. I wish more of that conference was openly available (yet). Or at least to be found. Why not use the same tag in Slideshare?

Here are two talks for now:

Libraries Leveraging Facebook And Twitter

View more presentations from Michelle Kraft.

And:
M Health Sciences Libraries (M for Mobile) by Eric Schnell at #MidwestMLA09. Why not embed & share? http://bit.ly/113Hm5 It's a great presentation;-)

Netvibes powers Conduit : a strong partnership

Conduit Open
Just a few days ago I took a deeper look at Conduit Open. Not because I have any shares in the company, but because we as library are using the tool for years now, as well as Netvibes. And to my surprise, it now looks they both started working very closely together!
Conduit Open is a beta version of a marketplace for toolbar components.It was launched a couple of months ago.
For Toolbar Creators
Basically they implemented a way for toolbar owners [you cant call them developers as creating a toolbar is made dead simple] to SHARE not the toolbar itself, but the seperate toolbar elements, menu*s and buttons. (Hélas not the searchbox with all the library custom searches.)

• Admins find a share-option in the edit-mode of the toolbar  at each element. This way the component gets published in the Marketplace, available for all.
  
  
• Admins can also choose to search for new components in the Marketplace when logged-in. This Search service offers móre information about the components compared to the search version for "normal users & everybody else". Like the total amount of 64.114 components( October 4th 2009),  a rating system, some stats, a preview options and their origin. It was here that I noticed that a very substantial amount of the components actually come from Netvibes own widget "marketplace" Eco-netvibes.com, but not all , as Netvibes holds 185.047 widgets today.
  I would like to know how they selected those components ... To my surprise all my own created Netvibes widgets can be found in this Conduit Marketplace.
  Components added by admins are visible right away for all Toolbar users.
  
  
• In the Marketplace Tab you can also find the 2Go-option.
  "Each 2go button represents one piece of content or one application, which you can then add easily to any page of your website using basic code. When a visitor comes to your website they can click on your 2go button and your stuff will be added to their branded toolbar if it is powered by the Conduit platform. And if the visitor does not have a community toolbar, then they will be prompted to add your free toolbar to their browser" (See the example of the PubMed News Button from the Pubmed Toolbar in the rightmenu of this blog.)
  
  
•  Libraries can created search & news components easily with the Add gadgets function that accepts codes & scripts in an easy copy&paste way. The Conduit platform powered with Netvibes functionality offers a great way to ensure that library content and services can be offered and distributed in an easy and quick way for many other platorms.

For Toolbar Users
Users of the toolbars are offered a Add Stuff button [+] at the right end of the toolbar.
Marketplace 68.000 components by others toolbar admins and a very substantial amount of Netvibes widgets from Netvibes own widget marketplace Eco.netvibes.com
Search for Toolbar components (for toolbar users and other interested people)

All Netvibes component show, when opened in a Toolbar the Netvibes share button, and the text

powered by netvibes

It takes users to the eco-netvibes widget page where they can choose to install the widget in Netvibes, iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Vista & Windows Live.

Components added this way are only visible for the individual Toolbar user.

37 ways To Adjust Your Library Toolbar (or any Conduit Toolbar)

Re-post from : LibraryToolbar.blogspot.com.
Here are just a few ways you can ADJUST your Library Toolbar once you have chosen to use it.
I am making this overview because the people creating this free toolbar software (Conduit) keep improvingand adding new ways of adjusting the toolbars to give users more possibilities. The examples given are from the NLM Toolbar.

1. During installation you can choose to add 3 personalised buttons to your toolbar (See the picture):







1. Email-notifier (to get notified of new email on multiple accounts)
   
2. Weather button (To see current and predicted Weather in specific location)
3. Radio-button (To select your own preferences in web-radio ánd to listen to added podcasts via RSS). The NLM Radioplayer contains the podcasts of the NLM Director Comments on MedlinePlus & the NIH Podcast.
   (These buttons can at all times be de-activated or actived later on)
   





2.  You can choose to set the customized websearch from the toolbar as your default search. It makes any search entered in the top-right searchbox (and from the address-bar) run through a Google-powered searchengine. This sounds good, but my advice is NOT to select this option. In my opinion the Google-powered Conduit search is the weakest spot from their toolbar-solution.
3. You could also set your homepage to this customized web search page, but again, this is not as strong as the normal Google search.
   
   
4. The NLM Toolbar is currently a set of 9 toolbars focussing on NLM services. You can at time toggle between the following toolbars. (NLM, PubMed, PubMedCentral, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials, DrugInfo, AidsInfo, DailyMed, HouseholdProducts) This group-function saves a lot of screen space. You just see one toolbar, but can have the power of 9. An edit-options to remove toolbars is available.
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5. If you find any other Conduit Toolbar on the web, an easy Add To Your Toolbars function will ask you if you want to enclose the new toolbar together with the NLM toolbars.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Extensive options to adjust the Toolbar can be found right next to the NLM-logo
   Very useful is the SHRINK TOOLBAR toggle option. It takes away all texts next to the buttons, using less space.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Toolbar Options:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Personal Components
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Email-notifier
   2. Privacy Components
   3. Weather Forecast
   4. Online Radio Player
      
   
   
   
   
   
   2. Predefined Components : If you do not want to use some elements of the NLM Toolbar, you can simply de-select them.
      
   
   
   
   
   
   1. The Highlighter marker (highlight text and counts how often it appears on that webpage or document)
      
   2. News (16 selected NLM and related RSS-feeds with easy overview and access)
      
   3. ALL NLM (the NLM sitemap in a nutshell)
      
   4. For: (info for specific target groups)
      
   5. Journals & Books (quick access and overview)
      
   6. Messages (messages about the NLM toolbar with option to respond)
      
   7. About (general info on the NLM)
      
   8. QuickSearch (a searchbox to be added to your Netvibes, iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Vista or Windows Live)
      
   9. PillBox (new NLM feature to visually identy pills)
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   
   
   
   
   
   3. Useful Components
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   1.  Office Shortcuts Menu
   2. Windows Calculator
   3. Windows Media Player
   4. All Windows Office Tools
   5. Notepad
   6. MSN Messenger
   7. and more
      
      
   
   
   
   
   
   4. My Stuff
      
      
      
      
      
      
      To be abled to add `my own` stuff is one of the most heared request from our many toolbar users. And now Conduit offers this. They made it easy to create toolbar content (more on this, xml-menu's and html gadgets later on) ánd implemented a way to SHARE this through Conduit Open. These elements can be added and removed through the My Stuff-menu.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   5. Additional Settings (to select or de-select) : 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   1. Enable search Box History
   2. Suggest searches from Search History (and a clear options)
   3. Send user statistics (helps the company to improve the toolbar, but has privacy implications)
   4. Add selected text on web page to the search box (VERY useful!)
   5. Enable switchback to default search engine
   6. Show tooltip when community toolbar detected (detects other Conduit toolbars and offers add-option)
   7. Enable Search from address bar
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
8. To complete this long list of options to adjust your Toolbar two small but again useful tips:





1. you can adjust the size of the NLM search box (the most important toolbar element with 35+ search options from the NLM!) by simply sliding it to the desired size.
2. At all times you can make the toolbar disappear (or appear again) via the menu View; Toolbars.

New PubMed Design Preview (Search added to PubMed Toolbar)

 Today the url of the preview for new Pubmed design came out: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Enough changes to be very interesting, and to be added as search to the Pubmed Toolbar: http://pubmed.ourtoolbar.com



(re-post from NLM Toolbars)

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