A Couple of Changes to the “LiveBinder It” Bookmarklet

We just did a couple of updates to “LiveBinder It” that you may notice the next time you use it. Someone in our LiveBinders community pointed out that if you save a page to a subtab with “LiveBinder It”, we used to remove that part of the menu after it was done saving. This may have left you wondering, “Did I just save that to the right subtab?” We love our LiveBinders community for pointing these things out to us. So we fixed it so that you will see subtab that has your new link:

The second item was something that we noticed on twitter. It seemed that people wanted to post the link that they had just added to their binder. So we added an easy way for you to do that. There is now an option that lets you tweet out both the link and the binder after you use “LiveBinder It” to add something to your binder:

Thank you again to our LiveBinders community for letting us know what we need to work on! You are awesome!

The All-Important Conference Handout

I know that when I speak at conferences that the most common questions are: “Can I have a copy of your slides?” and “Can you provide that url again?”

Conference handouts are a very important part of your presentation. Your talk is often so information rich that it can’t possibly be adequately absorbed in just an hour. People need to digest the information and then go back and review it. They also need reinforcement of your message and they need to explore your sources for themselves so that they experience that “ah hah” moment on their own. Don’t let them do that without you! Create a binder with all your materials and make sure that you provide your blog or website in the binder. This will help you reinforce your message, but also let them remember the source of that message.

LiveBinders is your perfect solution to a great conference give-away! Here is a brief video overview:

But here is the best part, you can be working on your handout until the last possible minute. Of course there are times when I get additional resources from the audience. I love being able to tell them that those resources will be included in the binder. Unlike emailing information, with a binder, everyone always has the latest version.

Here is a great example from Kathy Cassidy and Maria Knee with slides and other resources:

Going Global: Learning Together

Great Video of How to Use New LiveBinders Features

Dean Mantz created a great video on how to use the recently announced features in LiveBinders.

You may also want to check out scling’s binder on embedded all sorts of fun things into a LiveBinder:

A Guide on Embedding Objects and HTML Editor

Visual Subtabs

We love our LiveBinders community! Everyone always has helpful suggestions and ideas on how to improve LiveBinders. This one was requested by many of you. You felt like the subtabs were not visible enough in the binder. We polled a few of the people in our community with some ideas and this was the design that they thought would make the subtabs jump out more.

Please let us know if this works for you. We deeply appreciate your feedback!