There are lots of librarians on the Commons, and about a year ago, fellow Commons Facilitator Brian Foote (@brianfoote) started a wiki page to compile links to their work, focusing especially on blogs and groups.
An amazing amount has happened since! Included below are some updates, and a bunch of images, one year later.
Please feel free to contribute more links and annotate the existing ones!
The following comes directly from a Commons Wiki page.
I activated the Apture plug-in today and it’s pretty cool. Apture lets you create a collection of links, each of which is popped up in its own window. The idea is to keep your readers on your site while reading or watching content from other sites.
The first link you select serves as the frame, and all the subsequent links appear as icons underneath the control bar. Here is a sample Apture link I created: Open Access. I chose a youTube video as the frame, and included a wiki article from the Commons Wiki, an image from Flickr, an article from Wikipedia, Open Access on Twitter, Peter Suber’s Linked-In account, and an e-book from Google Books. When you select web pages, you can open up snippets, or the whole page in another window.
Apture may be activated by going to “Plugins” on the WordPress dashboard. Scroll down until you find it, and click on the “Activate” hyperlink. Once it is installed, you will be guided to set up an Apture account. A quick “Getting Started” tutorial is available.
See Apture for documentation and additional information. Unfortunately, Apture does not work on the iPad. Apture requires Flash Player, and Apple doesn’t allow it.
This can also be done using Apture’s “embed” function. The following sample was just embedded in the post:
I’ve been looking at the various ways to use blogs and wikis together, and found a new one (at least to me).
Suppose you want to record what you learn at a class or a conference. Both wikis and blogs let you compile links and share information, but blogs are better suited to broadcast that information. On the other hand, wikis allow content to evolve and grow by enabling collaboration. Blogs allow feedback in the form of comments, but searching through comments is not that convenient.
So here’s an alternative that lets you use both!
Using the WordPress plug-in “WIKI INC” you can include wiki content in your blog post or page. I created a wiki page to further explain, and have dynamically “included” it below to demonstrate this plug-in’s functionality.
Everything below here comes dynamically from a Commons Wiki page
