UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: July 2007 Archives

eXtension is offering a session entitled, "Designing for Web 2.0: The Visual Ecosystem."

This session has been touted as being of high quality. It should be of value to anyone who works with, or creates content for the web.

The event, "Designing for Web 2.0: The Visual Ecosystem" is coming up this Wednesday, July 18 from 3:00 - 5:00 ET (2p CT; 1p MT; Noon PT; 11a AT; 9a HT). The session features Luke Wrobleski of www.lukew.com. For more information see the session announcement: http://about.extension.org.

Total Training, the company that makes the Adobe training DVDs we have available for loan, have now started to offer the same training online.

For details, see their site: http://www.totaltraining.com/online/subscriptions.asp

One of the core technologies behind the Web 2.0 "revolution" is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Most websites that are updated with any sort of regularity have feeds of at least their headlines, and usually of full articles. Some sites also have secondary feeds listing their comments, videos, links, and other updates as well.

Because RSS is so common these days, keeping up with the rush of information that shapes our lives has become pretty easy ("really simple", even). Instead of jumping from one site to another, you can keep track of all the content of the sites you visit regularly in one central place.

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While there are desktop applications that collect your syndicated content, reading RSS feeds is one task that justifies the buzz around "Web 2.0". For reading news, keeping up with blogs, even tracking packages, little can compare with Google Reader -- its easy to add feeds, easy to read them, and easy to organize them.

Read How to Get Started with Google Reader at lifehack.org

Great video showing some google search tips:

Ever want to search all of the Cooperative Extension sites around the country at once? Now you can, through a custom Google search set up by the folks at eXtension.

Just go to http://extension.unh.edu/cesites.htm, our listing of the other states' Extension sites, and use the search box at the bottom of the page.