 I'm Scarlett, I work here at The Speak in Charny County Public Library. I'm going to tell you quickly about ChartGo. ChartGo is a free, online, very simple chart making tool. So, sometimes you don't want to mess with the complexity and power of Excel. You just want a little pie chart or a little bar graph, a little line chart. You just want to be simple. You have the data in front of you. You just want to plug it in. Boom. Have your little pretty chart that you can dump into a document or share with somebody. And this website will be able to do that for free. Sorry, I'm not really showing you a visual of it. But you just go, you can select pie, bar, graph, dump in your data, make your X and Y axes. You get some limited color options. Click the button that says create chart, and it'll make this pretty little chart for you. But you can then embed in a website or a blog. You can share, you can save it in a variety of formats. You can put it on Facebook. And you can just have a link to it. So you could actually just activate the link and send it out to your group. And you could have it for at least three months. They say if somebody doesn't use it for three months, then it goes away. But cool, free, easy, easy to use. Try it out. Hi, I'm Donna Eckert. I'm from K-State West Brace in Maine, Manhattan. I'm going to talk to you about vines, vines and app. Right now, it's only available for iPhones, but Android One is coming soon as well. It's a very short video app, and the easiest way to explain it is that vines is to YouTube as Twitter is to blogging. You have six seconds of video on any individual vine you make, and if you think that's ridiculous, think about the first time you read a Twitter and thought, what could I possibly say of value in a hundred and forty characters? Now you know what you can say in a hundred and forty characters. Vines, six seconds of video. I'm convinced you could use it to show people how to log in, how to renew their books, how to find things in the stacks. I'm visually convincing people at my library, so you do that now. It has social aspects that integrates with Twitter and Facebook, and you can share your videos out anywhere, so it's pretty simple to use. Annie Grosseneer, I'm the messenger for Raspberry Pi from my grandkids. Yes, I do have a library background and I'm on a library board, but Raspberry Pi is the thing that they are so enthused about. I tried to find information about it, came up here and found out there is a lot of information that I could not find that will be coming out. Alright, the next thing I want you to know, this is all you need, starts at $35 for the basic, what you see right there on the board. It's right here. You can use sticky tape, put it back on your TV, and you can load your movies that you've taken off the web and play them. It goes on and on and on and on. You can go ahead and pick, hook it up to one of your appliances at home and see how much electricity it's using. Tons and tons and tons of things that you can do. Now, my best tip is to go ahead and there's going to be a blog given to you and get on that and you can watch a four minute little video of exactly what you can do with this. They also sold me this, I don't know why. I purchased Minecraft for our library because Alfie and Tracy sent you. Well, they had good reasons. It has a lot of educational potential and helps kids develop a spatial and problem solving skills, collaboration and creativity. It also creates the opportunity for group and social learning. Minecraft is all about building on a lot of different levels. We talk a lot about makerspace and libraries these days and this is like a virtual makerspace. It should be a good investment as we use it for special beam lights. The first one is two nights so tonight is our test and also throughout the summer with programs for all ages. We feel like it really fits our theme this year. The cost for us was $95, $18 for each license for three public access workstations and $41 for the enhanced software or the server. And yes, we needed help setting it up thanks to Dan and we'll keep you posted about how it works. My name is Royce Kitts from Washburn University. The first thing I'm going to show you today is Tildy and what Tildy is is a step-by-step guide for creating online tutorials. It's like sharing recipes. It's one of these things that really walks you through step-by-step on how to create it and stuff. There's not a lot of bells and whistles which I think actually helps you focus in on the content. It integrates with Google Maps. You can put maps in there. You can give people some instructions on maybe you can stay here or if there's a good restaurant, those kinds of things. One of the things that I think it really comes in handy is when you're working in a reference desk you can create a quick tutorial that you can email to a student on how to get into a database and how to find an article. That's why I use it for most often. And I got 12 more seconds so I'll also add there's no sign-up required and each tutorial has its own unique short URL. You are fell sorry. Narrable. Okay, this one's awesome. Mother's Day is coming up. Maybe you don't want to buy or anything. Maybe you don't even want to talk to her, right? There's going to be some of this, right? So one of the things that's really awesome about Narrable is you upload some photos and you can add some voiceover and you can call in and do it. There's a phone number for it. You can also do it via the computer and what it does is it allows you to create a really narrated story, a little narrated story using pictures and it's awesome so you can put on all those baby pictures that you wanted to. And a couple of things real quick is you can sign in with just your email or password or if you want to sell your soul and there's souls of your friends you can sign up with Facebook. And you can know your friends with pop-ups. Which is why people on Facebook. All right, now this actually is one that I think can come in handy. I know a lot of us work with people who want to print everything off that they see and give to us. Printing is expensive. One of the cool things about PrintLiminator is that it's a bookmark that lives in your browser. You go to a web page and you want to print something off from and what it'll do is it'll come up with a series of buttons and you see these three buttons up here and what you can do is you can remove all the graphics from that web page and remove certain elements from the web page so that you can get this really nice clean print. One of the really awesome things about it is for some reason people lack a certain font or a certain font size and what you can do is you can click on the apply your own style sheet to it so that it'll print things off exactly how you want it. So this one's great. Hello, the tip I'd like to share with all of you today is visually. I know that Cynthia talked about this a little bit. Like she said, let's you create visual representations of your data or use existing infographics. I think it's really neat because you can convince people to do things they don't want to with infographics because nobody can argue with an infographics. A specific point of interest to me is the ability to take Google Analytics data for your website feed it in to visually and have it give you that data in a way that's easy to share and read and understand. And that's all I've got for visually. The next thing I'd like to talk about is WordPress mobile. Primarily because a lot of our cloud websites use WordPress as well as other library websites. WordPress mobile is an app that lets you work on your phone or tablet on your posts as well as do some of the administration of your website. To set it up, it's really really simple. You just put the URL on your website and then you're using any password that you use to log in to your website and then from there you can post your website on the go and work on drafts, upload media, whatever it is that you need to do for your website. And actually just now I'm on my tablet and I'm going to post these 30 tips to the website. Hi, I'm Alyssa Salia. We're here in Tequika. The first tip I wanted to share was about reading free digital edition copies of books, mostly fiction, but some non-fiction. It's open to many librarians. You write a little review about yourself when you sign up for the services so publishers can look at your review of yourself and say whether or not you might actually do something for reading their advanced digital copies, like review it for your website or make a collection development decision, those kind of things. NetGalley is currently my favorite but Idolize also has some great advanced copies that you can get. Basically, you go say I want this one and this one and this one and they give you approval from the publishers and then you download them for free months before they come out for the public and read them on your iPad or your iPhone or on your computer or on your tablet. It's kind of awesome. I personally only go back and review maybe 10% of them and they still keep approving for me. My next tip is Pixlr.com Specifically, it's an online photo editing service specifically what I like about it the best trick is to very easily change the layer style on text to make it stand out when it's typed over a picture. That's a tool that I go specifically to this program for so if they need to make a little graphic for your website and you want to put just a little wording over it to make it more effective for the person looking at it you can type the words in a new layer and change the style of that layer and it glows from outside of it and then no matter what picture it's going over your reader can read those words over the picture and I don't have any fancy editing software if that wasn't obvious because I'm not really in that field but I need to do these things all the time and there's a really quick way to do it. My next tip is to use your smartphone and take pictures of stuff in your library and share them. I know it's kind of an obvious tip but I typically will use my phone and take pictures of displays or take pictures of other cool stuff I see people doing. Put it on our website or put it on our Flickr and then try to label it while saying what it is it expands the reach of your library out more and then I actually get feedback from other libraries. People are searching for examples online of how libraries do things and they might say oh that book display was great can I use it in my book and I'm like yeah it wasn't mine but let me check I just put the picture up because it was cool. It acknowledges what your coworkers are doing and does that reach elsewhere of course you could do that on your Facebook also it's a great way to get the word out about what you're doing in-house you may do something awesome in a hallway and not everybody sees it not everybody went down that hallway while the awesome thing was happening I'm a big fan of passive technology so like you can go to a conference and tell everybody how to run your own trivia night but it only reaches the people even if I told you all how to run your own trivia night it only reaches you guys if you put up an eight page handout on how to run your own trivia night on your website people searching when they need that information on how to run a trivia night find it and I get an email a week from people around the country searching for that information because I say and I'll share our old questions with you for free just email me that's how I know that they're seeing it so whatever you're doing well that you're willing to share you can put that out there and I'm going to go put the same thing on the script site too because wherever people are looking for it if they can find your information it's way more effective than a conference even a cool conference like this for people to find the information at the time they need it so whatever you're doing well share it and then I'll be able to find it when I need it I'm Helen Clankerton from the Beckborkman library in Holton and this is a super simple tech tip and I give credit to Mike Shwell a patron of our library searching for free ebooks go to Barnes & Noble or Amazon and in their search window just type 0.00 as in zero dollars and zero cents and the result will be hundreds and hundreds of free ebooks we sent this in first we sent this in doesn't seem to be here I don't know a whole lot about Symbolu but that's why they made Google I guess it's a it's a home page that you can use and so Charlotte Anderson had sent this in as a tip but unfortunately she is not here today so we'll continue on with the rest of the tips so it was announced that I'm Alex Mann I'm a reference librarian at Emporia State it was announced that Google was going to take their Google reader out to the woodshed and so I was looking for an alternative to sort of integrate all the RSS feeds that I had set up and integrated in my Google reader and export it out and eventually I settled on Fevely which is available probably in the Android marketplace I have it on my iPhone and it also has a browser plugin for Firefox and Chrome and essentially all it is it's just another way to review your RSS feeds it looks really great on my phone and it also will import in all your RSS feeds into the service and once Google shuts down it says it will have seamless transition to their own platform so I'm giving it a shot I actually was sent in by one of the state library folks who was not able to make it today but this is Jane this is free screen capture from your browser it's basically a little plug-in that you install on your computer and you can record video of what you're doing on screen so if you're doing tutorials or if you are planning to do a presentation and you want people to actually see the cursor moving and the words showing up in the search bar and the stuff opening up Jane is a free option that you can use to make those recordings and it also does screen shots and I know there are a million screen shot and Bookmark let's some things out there but if you've got Jane you can do both static screen shots and you can also do the recordings of you talking and moving around on the web and the next one that I'm going to do is Evernote I chose to do the Evernote mobile Evernote is available on every platform seriously if there's a platform that the Martians use they probably have Evernote as well it is it is really really handy and I find it especially handy on my phone I have an Android phone this is a screen shot from my phone and you can see with a single button I can add a quick note in text I can add a voice memo so if I need to say something I'm in my car and I don't want to type it out I can just pull up my phone click on the voice memo and it records to Evernote and then later on I can listen to it and I can make a quick picture which I do all the time to remind myself to books I want to buy wine that I liked I have a nice little collection of wine labels in my Evernote and then the last button there is searching and Evernote does a fabulous job of searching Evernote is free and free bien there is a paid version as well Hello again Rafflecopter Rafflecopter is a way that you can set up a raffle a sweepstakes you can put it on your Facebook page or your personal page you can also embed it in your WordPress and lots of other ways anywhere basically you can embed HTML you can put in this little widget for Rafflecopter and then that allows people to enter your sweepstakes they can answer questions so it's a way of adding gamification to your social media site and your website so I know we all got really excited last year after Eli's talk about these virtual gamification ways so this is a really easy way to start that right away I set up a simple raffle just on the Neckles page just so I could see how it worked and I had four people I've never heard of enter the raffle for a free 3D printed object so I probably should make one winner you can pick whoever the winner you want you can also integrate this with your Jelly Bean contest in your library so it doesn't have to all be virtual next okay so save media Michael Welsh that's how you say it was two years ago mentioned this and I think it bears being repeated because I know my tech buddy that works for the KU libraries didn't know about this so when I go and I find a YouTube video that I want to embed into my PowerPoint rather than having to deal with shaking internet connections or something like that instead of where it says youtube.com I put in to the URL bar savemedia.com this then brings me up to a page where I can download a version of that video it can be then downloaded in Flash or M-Pay it doesn't do just music that is a separate plugin and probably something that's not free because of the copyright type issues but it's great for when you need to move some media around I know I've had people where they were having some bad wireless connection but they want to show their board a video this is a good way to be able to move that video from the device that you have working on the internet onto something else and even put it on your mobile device all time today and this first one is called Gliffy and it's similar to one that Cynthia showed earlier but it is free of course you can get a paid version that has four bells and whistles but the thing that I like was it has so many options and it's going to that's the main page I like that it was really clean it just shows what the options are like Venn diagrams if there's anybody out there still doing Boolean and Venn but there's floor plans there's flowcharts so there's an example of a Venn diagram the pirate, the ninja the zombie and right there in the middle is the IRS if you can see it and then here's a network flowchart and there's just all the little pieces you just pull them over if you're doing a layout for your office like if we were thinking about moving some of our cubicles around this is an easy tool to just kind of play with the walls and where the chairs are and where the computers are and the next one and it's free gliffy.com the next one is bamboo dirt if you haven't seen this it's just a nice tool if you're looking for some help this is a great place to start the front page is I need a digital research tool to find other researchers in my area manage projects collaborative right together all kinds of things so this first example is the collaborative editing and you just get a list of all the tools that they have available that they have found and this is a whole bunch of people just like Wikipedia or anything and then you can limit it by platform, by cost so for example Basecamp is in here but if you limit it to free tools then you'll see the next screen would be Basecamp goes away because it's not free but it gives you a really nice overview of all the different things that are out there to help you get your work done and you can limit it by lots of different ways so you can find one that works for you Hi everybody, Mickey Colwell with Neville, sorry I missed your introductions this morning, I was running a little behind the app I want to talk about is a mobile app that you all probably are familiar with Google Translate, it's about as close to Star Trek's universal translator as we're going to get in 2013 it lets you talk to all kinds of different people especially if you're at conferences or if you travel outside the country it allows you to type in text or to copy text from another language and translate it into your language currently it supports 64 different languages including languages like Chinese different dialects of Chinese Japanese, Gaelic not Klingon yet, there's a different app for that but the nice thing about it is that it also gives you some sound so it will automatically translate for you all librarians look alike in the dark Hey, I'm Lord Vaughn from Nichols I told you earlier I handled the money things we decided to go with Intuit GoPayment, which is very much like Square the reason we chose this was that they will register government entities if any of you abuse Square it's for an individual you have to give your Social Security member and your background we also use QuickBooks so it will also register QuickBooks as well it works on an iPad it works on your phone the quick tip would be that you need to make sure the volume is up on whatever device you're using all the way you can do actually swipe a card you can just if you forgot the reader you can still use the app and put the numbers in off of their card you can do that on the computer as well so that's this one the next one is because I help so many people I do tech support for money and it can get very confusing about what they're trying to tell you and so we use LogMeIn for some of the networks that Van maintains and he's giving me a very select little list of computers I can access but for those that aren't on that network of LogMeIn or don't have the bandwidth to support it we use TeamViewer and so they can call and say do they have a problem giving me a session their ID number and their session number and I put that password in I can see their screen you can talk on the phone and I can say no no no I'm trying to do this at least I can see it and we come to a productive conclusion that usually in those phone calls happy they're happy I'm happy I made their day so if you have any sort of discussion you need to see this is one of the things to use the first one I'm going to talk about is two apps WonderList and Mailbox WonderList is cross platform on basically any platform it's a to-do list app some others have been mentioned today it's the one I'm using I'm still the dirty still out on it but it's worked for me better than remember the milk or any of the others that are out there so definitely give it a look it's beautifully designed and I think that's why I like it more than any of the others the big screen shy is the Mailbox app right now it is iPhone only and only works with Gmail the Dropbox has actually bought it and I anticipate it's going to be developed and put on cross platforms it is a mail client for your smartphone that works better than any mail app I have ever seen I sometimes find mail as an inbox as a to-do list that's what my inbox is in this app I can swipe messages to just archive immediately I never want to look at them I can tell it set it to me again tomorrow next week you know never it's just a great way to organize your mail the next one is just an general idea about using PowerPoint to put pictures, programming announcements other things news about your library your community putting that in PowerPoint and then exporting your PowerPoint presentation as images and you can take those images and attach them to a digital photo frame to a television that has a USB port put on a thumb drive and have the television to slay all those images you can put them as a slide show on a computer screen but it's a way to do a digital sign board without buying the actual equipment to do that so it's a cheap and quick way to make announcements in your library the next one is on behalf of Nancy Joe at Salinas she said in the tip that when you're trying to look for obituaries and search engines and newspapers and other places type in the keywords survived by and the survivors and you can quickly get at some of those obituary information and that can get you to that information a lot faster the other one you know part of searching is just searching your screen there's a keyboard shortcut control F that if you've not discovered this write this down and use it especially in express libraries you're trying to look for a barcode on a screen of 150 items you can do control F type in your library name or type in the barcode you're looking for and it will jump immediately to that item or the keyboard that you're looking for on the screen that's a very helpful one this is a video library this is just a screen brief screenshot there's more on this site the Alaska State Library in Juneau put together a web page the link will be part of the links list that we're putting out but basically a web page that links to video libraries across the web that is content you can use in library programming for free it's either copyright free it's creative comments or public domain so if you're ever looking for video to use in programming this is a great place to start and take a look at and it's really got into a lot of work to put all this together a post that contains all of these tips the one that Ryan posted from the podium here that's the URL so if you want to get a list of the tips with all of the links and information that's where you'll go and that finishes up our 30 minutes so thank you very much