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Gadgets, Widgets Other Embeddables: Microcontent for the Masses

Introduction. Microcontent has been around for years. Blogs ? short post excerpts, quoted text and post/comment feeds News sites ? slideshows, embedded videos, tickers PowerPoint slides ? pictures, video, the theme from Star Wars. Then came YouTube and all that 2.0 stuff. Embedded video

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Gadgets, Widgets Other Embeddables: Microcontent for the Masses

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    1. Gadgets, Widgets & Other Embeddables: Microcontent for the Masses WiLSWorld Conference 2010 – July 21, 2010 Allan R Barclay Ebling Library, UW-Madison

    2. Introduction Microcontent has been around for years

    3. Axioms, Caveats & Excuses These definitions are imperfect and broad - perhaps criminally so There is way too much content in these slides to cover in a presentation – consider them the handout, not the class (“CiL style”) These slides are dull – no images, code or diagrams – sorry! The examples should or will be more exciting

    4. Oh, alright…

    5. Some Examples of Microcontent RSS Feeds – the workhorse of microcontent

    6. Some Library Use Cases Websites

    7. Library Ideas – RSS Feeds Your content

    8. Library Ideas – Widgets Your content

    9. Library Ideas – Embeds Your content

    10. Library Ideas – Installables Your content

    11. Library Examples – Search PubMed & other literature database results

    12. Library Examples – Instruction Handouts and other documentation

    13. Tools – RSS Feeds Feed parsing and display

    14. Tools – Embeds

    15. Tools – Widgets & Installables

    16. Widget Focus – Google Gadgets

    17. The Future ?

    18. Wrapup & Conclusions

    19. That’s All Folks!

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