Will be posted on Sarah’s site & SlideShare later.
- Everything is free, unless otherwise noted
- Free eBooks
- Project Gutenberg
- AudioBooksForFree
- Escholarshiop
- Google Books
- ManyBooks
- Memoware
- Online Books Page
- Oxford Text Archive
- Free Databases
- ArticlesBase.com
- Find Articles.com
- Free language learning sites (search for these)
- Free practice test sites (search for these)
- Free sites in all disciplines (search for these)
- Why not add this stuff to your website, or even your catalog?
- Reference Tools: patrons just want to contact the library; they don’t care what way.
- IM/Chat/Texting — LibraryH3lp
- Email — Gmail, Yahoo Mail
- Instant Messaging — AIM, etc, Meebo
- Chat — Meebo, Plugoo, Olark
- VOIP/Audio — Skype
- Video — some IM clients (AOL/Skype)
- Text Messaging — AIMhack; TextPlus
- Social Networks — Facebook IM
- Twitter — “ask us a question with @…”
- Put chat windows and Help links where customers are ANGRY (idea from David Lee King); put contact features where there are no results. Where patrons are angry, frustrated, that’s where you put free contact tools.
- Ohio University Libraries example uses a lot of these tools that Sarah just mentioned.
- Social Networking & Setting up a Network
- Username Check: checkusernames.com
- Usernames Claim/Log-in: OpenID & ClaimID
- Maintaining a Social Network
- Update Syncing: Ping.fm or Hellotxt.com, Facebook’s Twitter App
- Multiple Account Management: AtomKeep, Sessmic, or Hootsuite
- Metrics for Social Networks
- Social Networking Monitoring: Filtrbox, MyBUZZmonitor, TwitterSearch
- Stats: Twitter Analyzer, Twitter Counter, built-in Facebook page stats.
- Public & Staff Computer Software
- Operating System — Ubuntu
- Email/Calendar — Google Calendar/Gmail
- Web Browser — Firefox, Google Chrome
- Financial Software — GNU Cash
- Open Office: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, desktop publishing, and calculator
- Image Editing: GIMP, FotoFlexer
- Typing Software — GNUTypist or TypeFaster, Typing Tutor
- CD Writing — Brasero or InfraRecorder
- Firewall — PC Tools Firewall Plus
- Anti-virus — MS Security Essentials; Avast; AVG
- AdBusting — AdAware
- Anti-Spyware — SpyBot, MalwareBytes, Spyware Guard, Spyware Blaster
- Staff Scheduling Tools
- Droster
- AceShift (<20 shifts/day)
- or even OpenOffice’s “Calc”
- Team Meeting Tools
- Voice – Skype, Google Voice
- Video – SKype, Sightspeed, Tokbox
- IM – AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, & others
- Meeting Space/Chat – Today’s Meet, DimDim, Wiggio
- Meeting Scheduling: Doodle, When is Good, NeedToMeet
- Webcasts – Vyew
- Tech Support Tools
- Embedded chat — Meebo chat widget
- Voice or video chat – Skype, Sightspeed, Tokbox
- Screencasts on the fly – Jing
- Discussion Boards — Google Groups
- Remote Support/Computer Sharing — LogMeIn, Yuuguu, TightVNC
- Audio & Video Tools
- Voice/Video Chat — Skype
- Audio Recording/Editing — Audacity
- Video Editing — Avidemux, DVDx, Lumiera, Kino
- Video Hosting — YouTube, blip.tv, Vimeo
- Audio Hosting — OurMedia, PodBean, LibSyn
- eLearning Tools
- Screencasting Tools — Screencast-o-matic, Jing, Wink, Camstudio, Screencast.com
- Image Mark-Up: DabbleBoard
- Online Learning Environment: Moodle
- Conference Calls: FreeConferenceCall.com
- Webcasts – Ustream.tv
- Class Websites: WordPress, Blogger, PBworks, PageFlakes
- Computer Sharing – LogMeIn, Yuuguu
- Website Management
- Website recommender: delicious
- ILS: Koha or Evergreen
- Content Management System: Drupal
- Flickr slideshow w/o code – Pictobrowser
- RSS feed and Post Stats – PostRank
- Tag Clouds – Tag Crowd, Wordle
- Form Creator – Google Forms
- Free/OS/CC Photos — OpenPhoto, Stock.xchng, Image*After, Wikipedia Commons, Flickr image search, **my addition: compfight.com (Flickr search interface)
- Survey Tools: Zoomerang, SurveyMonkey
- Polls – Polldaddy
- Statistics – Google Analytics, OneStatFree, StatCounter
- Translation: Google Translate
- Website Hosting: WordPress, Bravenet, Bryght.com, Weebly, SquareSpace
- Online Book Clubs
- Google Groups
- LibraryThing
- Blogs for Book Suggestions
- Blogs (each entry is its own review): Blogger, WordPress
- Entry templates w/ tags/categories
- Webpage with links directly to mysteries, picture books, graphic novels, biographies, books for teens, etc.
- Encourage staff to participate in the web presence there
- Event Calendars
- Eventful
- Upcoming.org
- Going.com
- Craigslist
- Google Calendar (if you want something more separate)
- Online Book Displays: use flickr to tag photo of a book shelf
- Exploit Image Generators
- GeneratorBlog.blogspot.com
- ImageGenerator.org
- Imagechef.com
- More Free Web Tools, list on the screen of screenshots
- Be mindful: try not to reinvent the wheel. Lots of tools available from Google.
- Free Mashups
- Library ELF — account tracking & alerts
- Few More
- Cloud storage: box.net, drop.io adrive
- Book Jackets: Book City Jacket
- Open Source/CC Images: Wikipedia Commons, Flickr Image Search
- Charts: lucidCharts, Lovely Charts, Fliffy
- Text to Voice – Text 2 Speech
- EVEN MORE ON THE SLIDES
- PDF Creator & Editor? PDFCreator mentioned