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Teachers First offers reviews of various Web 2.0 tools and gives suggestions for their uses.

Free creative web2.0 tool for creating comic strips

Google recently tested a new interface for search results. The test didn't include any new feature and Google even loaded the standard search results page to display the results. An important notable change is the new format was that Google didn't load a new page to display the results and browsers didn't send proper referrals when clicking on search results.

In my previous post, Personal Branding 101, we discussed the importance of branding in this web 2.0 world, as well as how to discover and create your brand. In Personal Branding 102 we'll discuss how you'll communicate your personal brand, using social media tools and proven marketing tactics, and then how to sustain your future growth by performing brand maintenance.

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DEMO, the twice annual "launchpad for emerging technologies" that debuted massively successful technology products and services including TiVo, E*TRADE, Salesforce.com, VMware, Six Apart, OddPost, IronPort, GrandCentral and Glam Media, returns on March 1-3 with a new crop of web startups and products.

If you're a small business or a one man/woman show, how are you promoting your business online? On the flip side, if you're looking for a consultant, photographer, or a web design company, where do you start your search?That's where Qapacity jumps in; they're hoping to be the middle-man for professionals and service seekers, adding a few unique touches to make the process painless on both sides.

Great resource for school librarians. Many issues on how to maintain school library collections and manage a school library are discussed.

In this harsh economic climate, class trips to exciting places like New York City and San Francisco are probably out of many people's reach. But the educational Web site MeetMeAtTheCorner.org offers kids virtual tours of these and other cities without leaving the classroom. And it's all free. 

A new era of change has even come to the White House Web site!

A "how to" list for implementing Web 2.0 in your library.

This is an archive that allows users to see what a page (Google, for example) looked like in the past. It's an interesting way to see how websites have evolved.

An article by Nancy Willard in Education World that outlines the 6 key components that schools should have when addressing the issue of internet safety.

A web site that has picked out 100 of the best blogs that school librarians can use to stay current in the latest technologies, reading lists, special projects, ebook trends and more.

Another Web 2.0 tool! This site is much like a bulletin board, where you can post Post-it-like notes. Joyce Valenza blogged about it, suggesting you could use it for backchannel feedback in class. It could also be used for collaborative note taking, gathering feedback, having discussions, etc.

Curriculink is a web tool created by Otsego Northern Catskills BOCES School Library System. If you are not a member of this BOCES you can still access the site. The only area you cannnot access is the section for lesson plans. This tab leads to lesson plans written by librarians in this BOCES, you can also create lesson plans in the templates provided. The focus of the site is develop library awarness skills, and lifelong reading skills.

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Namechk is a new web application, that help users to find an username over 84 websites with less than 8 sec. This is amazing user don't need to got to each website to check availability of the preferd username. Namechk brings complete solution on checking for username availability is various social media and bookmarking websites.