Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Notes

For those of you who are Firefox users, Firefox 2 has been released. It sounds like it has some cool new features, including: Links will be opened in new tabs instead of new windows Users can decide how to handle RSS feeds. If you don't like to use Firefox's built-in Live Bookmarks, you now have built-in support to add feeds to Bloglines, My Yahoo, or Google Reader. A built-in spell checker for web forms. You can read more about it here: Mozilla Firefox 2 Release Notes

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Five Weeks To A Social Library | The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software

This looks like it could be an interesting course for anyone interested in using things like blogs, wikis, and other social networking tools in their libraries. The application deadline for participaing in the class is December 1. "The application process is designed to ensure that the course will benefit those librarians who have the most to gain from learning about social software and who would not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education" The class will be held from February 12 to March 17. Five Weeks To A Social Library | The first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software