New and Open Source Tools

Darlene FichterUniversity of Saskatchewan

April 14, 2010

Photo by takomabibelot (cc)

Let's get started

Establishthat you're

seriousabout your

job

Project Estimator

estimator.astuteo.com

gomockingbird.com

Mock up pages and link them

Image editing with Aviary

Aviary and Google Apps

http://jirox.net/AsButtonGen/

Test out your new style sheet

html-ipsum.com

Feed.Informer.com

All-in-oneRSS

toolbox

Add multiple feeds to one digest

Choose output format

Select a template

Add to your website/blog

SimplePie

RSS and Atom parser written in PHPeasy to use, plugins for WordPress, etc.

Are My Sites Up?

aremysitesup.com

Monitor up to 5 sites 25 times per day – free version

Need alerts more often? Check out premium edition.

Alerts by SMS

foursquare

Who? What? Where? plus a game

pleaserobme.com

Checking out the Buzz

socialmention.com

Real time search of: Blogs, Microblogs, Bookmarks, Comments,

Events, Images, News, Audio, Video, Q&A

Provides scores: Sentiment, reach, passion and strength

Offers: Alerts, RSS feed, scores export as CSV

Xmarksbeta

www.xmarks.com

Xmarksbeta +

Tap into the hive mind

Thanks

Darlene Fichter

darlene.fichter@usask.ca