Tools for Drinking from a Fire Hose

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Session Description

May 6 at 2:00-3:30 ET
This session will be held at our Web Conferencing Center

With so much information, sometimes it seems like you are drinking from a fire hose. The most effective method of managing and filtering the flow of information is to use a combination of tools. Several people who attend the April 14 "Drinking from a Fire Hose" session will demonstrate how they filter the flood of information to a manageable stream. Google Alerts, iGoogle, Google Reader, NetVibes, FriendFeed by Kevin Gamble, eXtension; TweetDeck are the tools that will be demonstrated in this session. This Professional Development session is offered in partnership with the ACE Information Technology SIG. (all Extension)

Presenters: Google Alerts by Dave Palmer, University of Florida; iGoogle, Rhonda Conlon, North Carolina Cooperative Extension; Google Reader by Stephen Judd, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension; NetVibes by Floyd Davenport, Iowa State Extension; TweetDeck by Vince Verbeke, Penn State; and FriendFeed by Kevin Gamble, eXtension.

Tools

• Google Alerts
  • http://www.google.com/alerts
• iGoogle
  • http://www.google.com/ig
• Google Reader
  • Reader
  • Read it Later
  • a basic HowTo as an intro to Google Reader from Common Craft video
• NetVibes
  • http://www.netvibes.com/
• TweetDeck
  • http://www.tweetdeck.com/
• FriendFeed
  • http://friendfeed.com/
  • FriendFeed Beta Thoughts and Walkthrough (as of Apr 7, 2009) on bwana.tv