Making the
Internet
Work
for You
Lauren Pressley, University Libraries
NLI Session, March 18, 2014

Experiment
BIG IDEA:

Select
BIG IDEA:

Invest
BIG IDEA:

Sync | Push | Extensions

sync

Documents: Collaborating
• Google Docs
• Zoho
• Apple’s iWork
• Microsoft 365

Documents: Syncing
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Box
• iCloud
• Microsoft OneDrive

Notes
• Evernote
• OneNote
• Google Docs

Reading List
• Instapaper
• Pocket
• Readability
• Browser features

Bookmarks
• Pinboard
• Delicious
• Browser
• Open Tabs

Passwords
• 1Password
• Apple’s Keychain
• Browser

Sync | Push | Extensions

push

Articles & Journals Alerts
• Have a search string that’s important for your
research?
• Have a journal you really like?

articles journals

Google Alerts
• Alerts on your name
• News events
• Scholars of interest
• Specific fields: business, literature, political
science, etc.

RSS
• One stop for top priority websites
• RSS feeds are mainstream part of web
• RSS readers are decreasing in usage
• Twitter, Facebook, information overload

If This Then That
• IFTTT.com
• “Glue” pulling together multiple internet services
• Recipes

Sync | Push | Extensions

extensions

Browsers
• Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox
• Internet Explorer

Best of
• Chrome: Pin Tab
• Safari: Sidebar
• Firefox: Grouped Tabs

Sync | Push | Extensions

Experiment
BIG IDEA:

Select
BIG IDEA:

Invest
BIG IDEA:

Questions?
Comments?!
!
contact: lauren@vt.edu

Images
• Lazy by Tony Delgrosso at www.flickr.com/photos/
24782931@N00/3288034050/
• 'That was easy' by Joepopp at www.flickr.com/
photos/79391933@N00/90811910/