1.iGoogle for Productivityand Outreach by PF Anderson Emerging Technologies Librarian April 21, 2009

2. IDEAS

Things you might do with iGoogle

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University of Michigan themed collection

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General Health

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Diet & Nutrition

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Fitness & Exercise

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Stress Tips

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Yoga & Meditation

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Autism &learning disabilities news & resources

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Public Health

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Medicine and Medical Gadgets and Tools

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Life Science Researchers

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Promote your unit here is the library!

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For fun? Astronomy Theme Semester

15. GETTING STARTED 16.

The beginning sign in to iGoogle, or create a Google account

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iGoogle login screen

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Choose topics

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Example iGoogle Home page

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Delete this gadget

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Edit settings

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Minimize gadget

23. THEMES 24.

Change theme

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Themes homepage

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Artist themes

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Game themes

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Causes themes

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Search for themes (history)

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Search themes results (history)

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Theme details

Creator details

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Search themes results (health, causes, marketing, fundraising)

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Theme details

Creator details

Comments and discussion community building

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Creator / developer information

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Theme details

Creator details

Comments and discussion community building

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Change theme

Easy undo option

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Notice the donate button

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Make your own theme

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Make your own theme almost done

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Done! (Sakura in Gold)

41. GADGETS 42. Want More Gadgets?Click Add Stuff 43.

Find gadgets

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You might also like

Useful tools like Google Tip of the Day, and Google Translate

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People who like Google Calendar also like other productivity tools

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Search for gadgets (health)

Search for gadgets (health)

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Search results for health

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Editors picks

And other categories

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Add feed or gadget

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Create your own gadget

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Make your own gadget

Sample forms:

• Framed photo

• GoogleGram

• Daily Me

• Free Form

• YouTube Channel

• Personal List

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Bens YouTube Station

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Building the gadget

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Add more content to your gadget

Remember to update content as you make changes to the YouTube site

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UMHS YouTube Gadget

Publishing options

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New gadgets are added to active tab

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But you can move them, edit the tab, or simply drag to another tab (very carefully)

58. ADDING RSS FEEDS TO IGOOGLE 59.

Examples of Public Health custom RSS feeds for journals, news, clinical alerts, and disaster response information

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Finding feeds

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Copy URL from location bar

Paste URL into feed selection window, click ADD

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Back to iGoogle, feed is there, move it where you want it.

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Adding a custom PubMed search as an RSS feed gadget in iGoogle

Send to RSS

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Customize your settings

How many articles do you want listed?

Click Create Feed

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Click on the XML button

67. Copy the URL 68.

Paste into feed/gadget form, click add

Voila! The RSS feed is added to your iGoogle tab.

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My own personal specialized PubMed search, right where I want it.

70. MANAGING YOUR TABS 71.

Make a new tab

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Auto-fill

• no relevant content was found

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Search results for Michigan

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Select your tools

• Click on Add it now

Highlighted examples

• Michigan Daily

• Weather

• Law Library

75. FINISHING TOUCHES 76.

Are we done? Lets take a look

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Lets move things around

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Hunh? How did you do that?

• 1. Grab menu bar of gadget

• 2. Drag to desired position

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Another way to change the look and feel of the page is in edit view

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Sharing your tab once your are done with it

• Select items you want to share

• Use email address of person you want to share it with

• Send it to yourself if you want aURL to put it in a blog or web page as a link

• Send settings if youve customized the gadgets in important ways, otherwise dont

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This is what it looks like to edit settings (fyi, every gadget is different)

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Sometimes things quit working right after a while

iGoogle maintenance 83. CONTACT INFORMATION

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian,UM Health Sciences Libraries, pfa@umich.edu

Slides will be at: http://slideshare.net/umhealthscienceslibraries/