Making History Podcast: The Blog

“No More Notecards:” Web-Based Research Tools

ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY

Zotero

GoogleDocs: for collaborative work or for working on documents remotely

  • Adding a folder
  • Adding an item
  • Sharing a document
  • Adding a Zotero citation to a document

HiveMinder (GCal and browser integration): task management tools

  • Add items through regular menu or through braindump
  • categorize via keywords & priority, organize by due date
  • First, next tasks

Blogging as a Research Practice: daily journaling about your work instead of research notebooks (will discuss this and more in the Academic Blogging workshop)

Flickr:  for digital images (backup for using digital images in archival work)

Mapping Tools

Visualization Tools

BACKUPS: Back up everything.  the more important the document, the more places you should back it up.  GoogleDocs, email it to yourself, thumb drive, CD, external hard drive, Mozy.com, etc…

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