TechTips

The goal of this site is to inform and educate the students, staff, and faculty of The Ohio State University community about various emerging technologies that impact services provided by the Libraries.

TechTips: Customized Google Search

Posted on April 27, 2009 by eric schnell

Do you have a particular hobby or interest that you have compiled a collection of Webs sites and blogs for? Do you keep extensive bookmark lists for these collections? Are you frustrated that you need to visit each of those sites? Do you finding yourself sifting through pages of results that come with a generic [...]

Posted in Communications, Discovery, Information Management |

TechTips: Micro-blogging

Posted on April 6, 2009 by eric schnell

Most readers should have at least heard of Twitter by now. Twitter is one of many social networking micro-blogging tools which are available. Simply defined, micro-blogging is a form of blogging that allows individuals to publish brief text or multimedia updates. If you are a Facebook user,  you become a micro-blogger every time you update [...]

Posted in Communications, Discovery, Mobile |