My Firefox Extensions

My list of Firefox extensions continues to grow. In preparation for my library staff development Web 2.0 workshop series (#6 of 6), I've reorganized the page as well as updated it with the extensions I have started using in the last month.

Yesterday afternoon, I e-mailed 3 colleagues to ask if they had other extensions they'd either just come across or had been using for a while. And I immediately got an additional 2-3 from each of them, which I've added at the bottom until I get a chance to give them a test run.

Add This Widgets (RSS/Bookmarking)

I guess these have been around for a while, but I only noticed them this week on Time.com.

The Add This widgets are fantastic way to offer subscription and bookmarking features on your blog without having to create separate buttons for each RSS reader or social bookmarking system you want to include.

The widgets are easy to set up and customized, and then you just copy/paste the resulting code. Clicking the button takes your user to a page where they can select one of 22 web-based or desktop reader. The widget is available in two versions: bookmark the entire site or bookmark a particular entry--with 30 social bookmarking sites to choose from.

The code for the RSS and "Bookmark this site" widgets was placed in the Subscribe HTML/Javascript page element in New Blogger. The code for "Bookmark this blog entry" got pasted into the template with no problems.

With an account, one can: 1) get some user statistics for each page that uses one of the widgets, or 2) customize the Add This screens to bypass the prompt pages and go right to subscribing to the feed or bookmarking the page.

Google Spreadsheets - Testing

Testing Google Docs & Spreadsheets to see if I can embed a presentation here. Linking to the public view of it certainly works.

If you're curious, it's a list of the books that in our Science & Engineering Library Browsing Collection + the books that aren't in the collection yet.

RSS/Podcast Presentation (Slideshare)

Just loaded my first presentation up to Slideshare. It's #3 of the 6-part Web 2.0 workshop series I'm teaching for library staff. Tomorrow's class is on social software tools (bookmarking, citations, and media sharing), so this will give me something else to show them for the media sharing part along with Flickr and YouTube.