harnessing new technologies to get things done

Harnessing new technologies to get things DONE

Ed BilodeauWeb Services Librarianedward.bilodeau@mcgill.ca

Digitization & Preservation Librariansarah.severson@mcgill.ca

Sarah Severson

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When considering new tech/tools, always start with a understanding of what you need to do

How are you currently doing this thing?

What aspects are working well?

What aspect do you want to improve?

Our philosophy

Choosing a meeting time (Doodle)

Managing multiple accounts (HootSuite)

Automate (some) of your interactions

Extend your interaction

http://www.youtube.com/user/whitehouse

Multiple Google identities

Capture everything

Taking notes – iAwriter/Notepad++, Dropbox

News reader, RSS Feeds - Feedly

News reader, RSS Feeds - Feedly

Scanning social networks for news – Flipboard (iOS)

Reading - Instapaper

Reading - Instapaper

Bookmarks - Pinboard

Scanning / reading / saving / sharing

Feedly

FlipboardInstapaper

Firefox

Hootsuite

Weblog

Pinboard

Manage and share your research

Generating ideas / sense making - XMind

Easy data visualization

Screenshot + Annotation

Sharing design ideas / mood boards - Pinterest

Google sites (sites.google.com) Integrates with Google universe…

Blogger

WordPress

Tumblr

Generic web publishing

Publishing ebooks - PressBooks

Real-time, collaborative note-taking

Real-time, collaborative note-taking

Real-time, collaborative note-taking

Show off what you have

Archiving your citations – perma.cc

http://perma.cc/

Embed some metadata

Portable file distribution - LibraryBox

In conclusion…

Have you fully explored what your existing tools can do? ex: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Often easier to accomplish a given task with an existing tool rather than have one more tool/app to worry about.

Don't forget about your OS and your computer! Getting better at the basics will have an impact on everything else you do

Try to regularly learn something about your existing tools.

Don't forget about your existing tools!

How safe is your personal information/data? Private? Secure? Can be archived? Preserved?

What kind of support do you have if something goes wrong?

Collaborative tools: are other users forced to sign up?

Remember: what is ok for you might not be ok for work!

Risks of using third-party services

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