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Tech finds of the week: Tools for maps, timelines, curation
Maps and mapping TileMill TileMill is an open source platform for creating maps using a CSS-like coding system. The site includes a support area for learning how to use the software and how to export...
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Tech finds of the week: Tools for tweets, apps, graphics, curation
Social media / productivity GroupTweet Allows an unlimited number of people to tweet from the same account. I haven’t tried this, but I like what I see. The service seems to solve a problem that many...
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Tech finds of the week: Tools for search, Twitter, presentation, analytics
Search IceRocket Allows you to search blogs, Facebook, Twitter and images. You can also search for trending topics for up to three months. You can narrow your search by limiting it to tags that people...
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What’s All the Fuss About Evernote?
I started using Evernote earlier this year, and it has quickly turned into an essential tool for my research and teaching. It’s an easy way to take notes, and it allows you to clip web articles and...
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Free and low-cost tools for design and publishing
Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software A good list of tools from Lifehacker. ——————————————————————————————-
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Tools for creating infographics
If you are serious about creating infographics, I’d suggest learning to use Adobe Illustrator. It’s the most versatile program of its kind, giving you complete control over the look of a graphic. It’s...
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Handout: Tools for Enhancing Stories Visually
A handout for a session at the Kansas Collegiate Media conference in Wichita. You’ll find most of these tools elsewhere on this site. Ward Online Tools, 2013
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Narrable: A new service for creating audio slideshows
A new website called Narrable offers some interesting possibilities for storytelling. Narrable is an online service that allows you to load photographs into a horizontal slider and then add voice...
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Three digital tools offer free trials
If you’d like to give some new software a free whirl, here are three great opportunities. Scapple for Windows Literature and Latte, the maker of Scrivener, has released a beta version of a Windows...
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11 easy-to-use tools for creating great web content
At a presentation I gave today for the staff of The University Daily Kansan, a student asked what I thought was the the most important tool was for creating stories for the web. My answer was simple: a...
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