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Google Scholar is already a handy tool for quickly scanning the academic research landscape. I’ve found a couple of additional features that extend its capabilities even further than the vanilla version. These features can be activated and set from the Scholar Preferences link (login required).
Google has made available a new Friend Connect component called Conversations. It allows for threaded discussions that can take place on a single web site or across multiple web sites. Here’s a simple demonstration of a global conversation taking place on multiple web sites.
There are a number of ways of getting local community news without relying on the waste and delay that’s inherent in traditional newspapers. Paper still has some advantages in the area of distribution. But this advantage is disappearing quickly as usage grows in handheld, portable, and desktop devices. This article suggests a few options for [...]
Google Friend Connect has started a limited introduction of its features. This blog has been given the opportunity to pilot these social networking features. Three features have been implemented and are now active.
Google Docs provides an easy way to create rich HTML forms for collecting survey questions into a spreadsheet. Instead of soliciting feedback from multiple participants using email and then manually collating the (often disorganized) results, a Google Docs user can direct participants to an online form which they can fill out and submit. [...]
Custom filters can be created for Google Analytics so that web site owners can better identify the characteristics of the traffic coming to their sites. This article describes how to use user agent cookies for excluding internally generated traffic to a web site.
Documentation for Google Analytics is [...]
Many people seem to be under the impression that they need a Google email account in order to use any of the Google services, such as Google Groups. Worse, they believe that they have to abandon the email address that they’ve established for themselves in order to maintain a Google email account. Google [...]
Looking for the latest Manitoba Fall Suppers map? It’s here.
With the cold, wet weather it was difficult not to ponder the coming autumn. Here is another Google Maps application, this time using the locations of this year’s Manitoba fall suppers.
Fall suppers are a prairie tradition. Every autumn, residents [...]
On two previous occasions I’ve posted maps of Folklorama pavilions using Google Maps technology. The first time used information from Folklorama 2005, then again updated for 2006. Here’s my update for 2008.
I’m pleased that the Folk Arts Council of Winnipeg has implemented maps on their web site [...]
The schedule and venue information has been published for Folklorama 2006. Here’s an update of my earlier Folklorama pavilion map, based on Google Maps.
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Orest Kinasevych is a digital media and publishing technologies instructor and consultant. He currently holds a faculty position at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. Orest has worked as a publishing technologies consultant to clients in publishing, pharmaceutical, travel information and financial industries across the U.S., Europe and Asia.Feedback
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