Tag Archives: research

MagNet Presentation on Research Using the Web

Posted on May 1, 2010 by joanvinallcox
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Social Bookmarking – Diigo

Posted on June 18, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social View Post

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MagNet Presentation on Researching Using the Web

Posted on June 5, 2009 by joanvinallcox

I’ve noticed that when I speak, I have my deepest focus on what I’m saying and trying to communicate, but that I pay substantial subsidiary attention to the audience’s reaction. If they don’t respond, it doesn’t matter how good my material is and my intentions are, I feel like I’m tanking. So, yesterday, when I View Post

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MagNet '09

Posted on June 4, 2009 by joanvinallcox

I GO-trained into Toronto today to attend some sessions  at the MagNet ’09 Conference. I was really impressed with the excellent level of organization and with the high quality of the two sessions I attended, a session with a panel of literary agents answering questions and a session with Harry van Bommel on self-publishing. Both View Post

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Chunkit and Cuil

Posted on July 28, 2008 by joanvinallcox

In the past few days I’ve been alerted to two new search tools. A friend, knowing my web-fascination, sent me a link to Cuil – http://www.cuil.com/info/ – I have only briefly played with it, but the information has hit the Twitterverse, and it was created by Google alumni, so you might want to check it View Post

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Web Use Research

Posted on April 16, 2008 by joanvinallcox

If you have 2 or 3 minutes available, help out a researcher, Dan Zarrella, by answering his survey – http://www.polldaddy.com/survey.aspx?id=edd7004ad2c1de47 When he reports the results, I’ll link to them from this blog. A small additional suggestion, the image above was created using Skitch – http://skitch.com/ . I really recommend it for ease of grabbing and View Post

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Following The Thread – my Ph.D. Thesis

Posted on February 10, 2008 by joanvinallcox

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