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Mobile Hotspots

http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/223/B302_Rings.pptx

  Oak Park Public Library

    *Chicago public and New York Public are doing it on a huge scale

  Turned into a whole big ordeal, the FCC even got involved.

  Mobile Beacon

    http://www.mobilebeacon.org/

    10$ per month

    Unlimited 4G data plan

    A project of Techsoup

    There's some legal issues.  http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/nonprofit-groups-say-sprint-will-unfairly-throttle-data-after-wimax-shutdown/

Oak Park has an "experimental budget"

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Project Management Tools

Slack

  Team communication

  Group chat on steroids

  May reduce time lost due to meetings

    

“Meetings are by definition a concession to a deficient organization. For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.” -Peter F. Drucker http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237484

Asana

Task management

Progress tracking

Mobile app

"To do list"

Unicorns and Hearts

Trello

Task management

Visual layout

Progress tracking

Team communication

Similar to Asana

Basecamp

Basic planning tools

Simple project management

To-do list, (no task management)

Mobile app

Ganttic 

Resource management and scheduling

Reporting and predicting

Smartsheet 

Project planning

Project templates

More functional

Gameplan 

Mindmeister

Mind maps

Streak.com

Boomerang

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In The Stacks

http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/223/B302_Zaffino.pptx

Librarian book recommendations

This PowerPoint is brutal.  Here's someone to keep in mind when power pointing.  The program will detect the monitor style, in our case widescreen.  The program then changes the slide size to meet the widescreen shape.  Problem is, that most places still use the normal 3x4 screen, or the projector projects in 3x4, like we have in celebration hall at vg.  So then the slide show is in widescreen, but everything else is in 3x4 meaning there are blank spaces at the top and bottom of the screen, and the space isn't utilized correctly.  In powerpoint, you can go into the design settings and tell PowerPoint to create the slides to fit 3x4.

Meanwhile the App is free.

  Still in BETA

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XSLT and XML

http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/223/B302_Gunderson.pdf

(You can probably stop reading now)

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