Only2Clicks - speed dial to favorite web site and make it your start page Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC] Among certain circles (my family, some of my coworkers, etc.) I'm known for my Googling skills. I can find anything, anywhere, in no time flat. My Google-fu is a helpful skill, but not one that's shrouded in too much mystery — I've just mastered some very helpful search tricks and shortcuts and learned to quickly identify the best info in a list of results. Sadly, though web searches have become and integral part of the academic research landscape, the art of the Google search is an increasingly lost one. That search process also included determining when to rely on Google and when to utilize scholarly databases, but on a fundamental level, it appears that many people just don't understand how to best find the information they seek using Google. Thanks to the folks at HackCollege, a number of my "secrets" are out. Infographic via HackCollege Image courtesy of iStockphoto, LICreate
Social Media Monitoring, Analytics and Alerts Dashboard Building a Facebook Timeline for Higher Education So what does the roll out of Facebook Timeline mean for higher education beyond bigger pictures and a new way of doing things? Plenty. Colleges and universities around the country are always searching for better ways to tell their story. Timeline streamlines the brand experience into a scrollable story. The trick is that building that story takes time and effort. Select a Sweet Cover Pic The cover pic is the most visible change to a Timeline-enhanced brand page. Remember the rules: Cover pics cannot contain contact information, calls to action or references to other Facebook features. Arrange Applications and Customize Appearance Custom applications used to be banished to a small list on the left of a page where they were hard to organize and harder to find. These highlighted applications take up some prime real estate and there is no reason not to capitalize on that fact. Pin the Most Important Content Seems pinning is the latest rage, even on Facebook. Get Visual with Content
Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces Wiki How does MediaWiki work? You probably know Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and may possibly be a little bit confused by similar, but different, words such as Wiki, Wikimedia or MediaWiki. To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained. General Overview MediaWiki can be used in large enterprise server farms as in the Wikimedia Foundation cluster. MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It's designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL. Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily. What MediaWiki is... MediaWiki is wiki software. MediaWiki is server software. MediaWiki is free software.
Wiki CMS Groupware The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of , the latest version of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. This release, with more than 1,000 code contributions by dozens of Tiki Community members, includes many new features, some architectural enhancements, and many bug fixes. Some of these new features include: Improved batch actions based on a URL with a token access. Extensive improvements to the Maps, Slideshow, Calendar, File Gallery and Drawings New plugins and modules Introduction of Timesheet functionality The Smarty template engine was updated to 3.1.x and much more! Refer to and the Tiki 9.0 Release Notes for details. As is the tradition in the Tiki community, most of the *.tiki.org sites have been upgraded to 9.x it was officially released. The release of Tiki 9.0 marks the close of the Tiki 8.x branch. The Tiki community has also decided to extend long term support (LTS) for Tiki 6.x support until May 2014. Please see: Version Lifecycle