This is actually part of a software investigation I did for work. We're looking for a survey tool (preferably free) which has the ability to create accounts within a large account and some user management (survey creators can only see their own surveys unless they are shared)

I reached out to my network and here are their answers:Survey Tools

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Ok, I"m trying a new one.Not that anyone cares, but h

So, I'm playing with a Nook Color (oh, the hardship) and trying to compare it to my Kindle and my tablet. One thing I've discovered is that ebook file formats for free stuff are in every format imaginable. Some Kindle compatible, some Windows (my tablet), some Nook (Android/Nook). If you want to see the specs for the two as well as which file formats are supported, check out my File Formats (and features comparison): Kindle vs.

Commenting, your friends and news stream: In addition to changing the comment and messaging system (I hate the new threaded comments), Facebook in the past month or so has rolled out a few new changes:If you're wondering why your news stream is sort of anemic: Facebook has chosen to select who you see and who sees you. Under Most Recent> Edit Options; select All Friends and Fans to see everyone. Of course, this can be very helpful for filtering info, but nice of Facebook to tell everyone.

Relatively inexpensive.ALCTS webinar: Repository Metadata: Challenges of InteroperabilityDate: April 13, 2011All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 2pm Eastern, 1pm Central, noon Mountain, and 11am Pacific Time.Description: This session will give an overview of some of the specific challenges in repository metadata including working with both user submitted data and automated processes. The presentation will discusshow repository data may be searched and repurposed and the fields that are needed for interoperability to work most effectively.

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http://xkcd.com/728/

love xkcd!

I think it would be wonderful to have some of the older sound recordings in the public domain... please feel free to provide your comments via the links below (not to me here, please!)---------------November 4, 2010Important Copyright Reform DevelopmentWe are at a significant moment in ARSC's long fight to reform U.S. copyright law. As a direct result of ARSC-sponsored legislation, the U.S. Copyright Office has undertaken a study of the "desirability and means" of bringing recordings made before 1972 under federal (rather than state) copyright law.

Very interesting article about the connection between creativity and inspiration, and the impact of the influence of others."When we over-saturate ourselves in other people's work it short-changes our own creative development."I have often felt this way, although I realize that developing or creating in a vacuum isn't necessarily a good thing, either. However, having the space for "deep thought" (which is in itself a creative process), is important to tapping into originality.

a few thoughts....Two of the most interesting conversations today* stemmed from a discussion of storytelling as used in magic and also in journalism (not related topics, at least for the purposes of this discussion). I've been trying to think of how to group these together in my mind as in each case the story is used for something beyond the story (in the former to mentally prepare the audience and to conceal the trick; the latter to communicate information).