Tools

Visualization

bubbl.us

bubbl.us is a web-based mind mapping tool, useful for organizing ideas, brainstorming, analyzing relationships, and visualizing data. Simple interface, with basic and easily understood functionality. Free to try without creating an account. Also available as an iOS application for iPad. Free account allows creation of three mind maps, with minimal customization (e.g., text size and formatting, bubble color and hierarchy) Expanded functionality, export options, and unlimited map creation with upgraded accounts Monthly or annual subscription options for individual account upgrade, including 30-day free trial Group licensing option offered for collaborative use by teams, including custom branding Eligible teams may apply for educational discount by emailing support@bubbl.us

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Dissemination

Posterous Spaces

NOTE: this platform is closing down on April 30, 2013 and will no longer be available. Posterous Spaces is an online sharing platform where users can publish content via a web interface, by email, or by using a mobile app.

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Creation

Tumblr

Tumblr is a blogging/microblogging platform with a focus on data sharing between individual blogs. Users can create and disseminate data in a visual or HTML editor, using standard Tumblr posting formats: text, photo, quote, link, chat, audio, and video. Built-in customization tools allow users to manipulate the appearance of their blog with little knowledge of web development. Tumblr also provides a CSS/HTML customization panel for more advanced users, including theme documentation and the ability to upload/alter theme asset files (e.g., CSS, JS).

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Publishing

TypePad

TypePad is a commercial, fully hosted blogging platform. Provides library of customizable blog designs.

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Publishing

LiveJournal

LiveJournal is a community publishing platform, with features characteristic of both blogging and social networking platforms. The site is longstanding, originally established in 1999 as a blogging platform and online community built around personal journals. Today comprises more than 50 million journals, with topical focuses such as politics, entertainment, fashion, literature, and design.

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Publishing

Edublogs

Edublogs is an educational blogging service for teachers and students to create, manage, and publish on their own WordPress sites. Provides cloud hosting and a simplified interface, as well as additional account options at the university level.

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Scratch

Scratch is a programming language, designed for children, for creating interactive stories, animations, games, music and art and publishing them online.

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Publishing

pachyderm

Pachyderm is a web-based rich-media interactive presentation authoring and publishing system that meets most accessibility requirements. It works off of an extensible template system. Pachyderm allows users to upload multimedia (images, audio, video) and publish them online using pre-defined templates or download them for use on their own website, or on a CD or DVD. Version 3 (released June 2014) now also supports iOS and other non-Flash devices using HTML5, and appears to be a major upgrade. Requires Apache HTTP or Tomcat web server installation (WAMP or MAMP is fine). PachyForge is a community owned and operated Web site designed to improve communications and promote growth within the Pachyderm open source community. The site is intended serve both Pachyderm developers and end-users in sharing ideas and supporting one another. [from the site]. EDITOR's NOTE: Unfortunately, this site seems to have fallen behind, and does not cover the newest release, Version 3. However, it may contain useful links, documentation, and other resources.

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Visualization

Recollection

Recollection was a platform developed by Zepheira for the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), allowing users to create and share embeddable interfaces to digital cultural heritage collections. The Library of Congress released its latest version of Recollection as Viewshare, built to increase the ease of finding, using, and sharing the project's software. Recollection incorporates a series of web-based open standards and open source tools, including RDF, Simile Exhibit, Akara, and Django. Recollection is no longer supported.

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Visualization

BatchGeo

BatchGeo is an online service that maps address data as points. The cut and paste interface makes it easy to convert a spreadsheet of street addressed into a map can be embedded or downloaded as a KML file. A limited number of addresses can be mapped for free; large files require a subscription.

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