Saturday, September 29, 2007

Week 9 Thing 20

Ok coming down to the wire here, Im gonna get this finished. I played around with YouTube. I was some what familiar with the site I go there often to look up new commercials that Adventures in Library No0bness puts up :) Anyway it took me a while to find a video that is worth putting on my blog but I really enjoyed this one. I think YouTube is a great tool for the library to be using. I enjoyed the video that was put on at the beginning of the summer promoting summer reading club. I think it is a great way for the library to advertise events and programs

Week 8 Thing 19

I explored a few of the Web 2.0 Awards winners sites. You know me I immediately go for the game sites. They were cool, several cute new games that don't need to be downloaded and are free to play online. I also looked at some of the online desktop sites they were really cool. Goowy www.goowy.com/index.aspx and Desktoptwo https://desktoptwo.com/ were both really interesting. I like the idea of being able to access those things from one place. They both give you an email account, a calender, you can integrate certain instant messaging accounts and chat right from there etc. I liked and disliked they both for different reasons. Neither one links to enough instant messaging sites, goowy links to Yahoo or MSN and desktoptwo only links to MSN. Goowy allows you to play cool games and desktoptwo gives you word processing tools. Here again I could see us directing customers to these sites to do word processing and saving documents if they are unable to get a disk or are afraid of the disk being erased. There are a lot of cool Web 2.0 sites out there that is for sure

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Week 8 Thing 18

Well I played around with both Google Docs and Zoho Writer. They definatly have there place. They are great for people working on group projects or people who don't have office on there computers. I can see us directing customers to these sites if they do not have the mean to buy a disk, or know they have a different program at home that is not compatable with the software that we have at the library. It would also help lower the risk of disks going bad and getting erased. I can also see it being used as a good source for group projects. Groups could use a wiki to colaborate all of there research etc, and then use Zoho or Google Docs to put together the final paper or presentation and edit it together without having to be in the same place.

week 7 - thing 17 - Sandboox

Ok Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki is a bunch of fun. I added my blog to the favorite bolgs page, and I added to the Favorite Dogs page. It was fun being able to change the text and color etc. I can really see where wikis have a place in the future of libraries. Especially in project building and management.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Week 7 Thing 16!!!

I'm getting there and am determined to finish this before October 1st. Anyway! I think wikis are really cool. They are a great way for groups to share information work on projects etc. I think that libraries could really use these for branch or system projects, groups can work on the things together and see what progress has been made without having to email or call everyone on the team to find out what has been done and what still needs to be done. I have used wikis for school projects, we were able to put together a website and keep track of the project. It was easy to see who had done there portion of the project and who was trying to ride on the rest of us for the grade. I could see a library especially like Lansdowne using a wiki for the community and working with community businesses and services to update the page with what is going on in the community, where people can go to sign up for special classes, library programs etc. I really think that wikis definitely have a place in our service.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Week 6 Thing 15

Web 2.0 and Libraries 2.0 definately go hand in hand. In todays world where people need information instantly web 2.0 is definately a great resource for librarians and patrons. The blogs, and wikis are great ways for librarians to share ideas and gain information on customer service and growing trends in customers demands and needs. I agree with several of the articls who say that libraries need to embrace Web 2.0 and use it and the resources to deliver services to customers. Creating sites customers can add information and reviews to, allowing customers to share information with one another, and with library staff. There is definately a new avenue for us to provide customer service, and libraries that ignore this are going to have a hard time in the not so distant future.

Week 6 Thing 14

Technorati is rather interesting. Interesting to see how many hits you get when you type in different topics. I guess it can be useful for learning different perspectives on topics. I could see libraries using it for internal training, or gaining opinions on new technologies or best practices. Although I didn't find it was the most user friendly of sites, one of those sites that could easily become overwhelming with the amount of information that bounces back at you.

Friday, September 21, 2007

Week 6 Thing 13

Ok so I played around with del.icio.us a bit. I crated an account and added a few tags. I guess this and rollyo kind of go hand in hand. I can go to this site and do a search for something and if I find the information I am looking for I can see what other people have tagged that may also help me. I can see this as a potential research tool if I am trying to do a paper on a subject, or even trying to find a user friendly site for homework help.

Week 5 Thing 12

Ok Rollyo is interesting. I created a search roll that includes all of the EQ2 game sites that I regularly use for finding new spells and quest help. That will definitely come in handy at home. I also played around with some of the other rolls and that was nice being able to search specific sites at 1 time. This could be a great tool for librarians to allow them to search google, amazon and other sites for books and reference help.

Week 5 Thing 11!

Played around with Library Thing. Kind of cool. Nice to be able to check out list that others with similar reading interests have created. Got some ideas of what to read next.

Week 5 Thing 10!

Ok now this one was fun. I Figured out how to add my Avitar to my blog and I also played around on M&M World and created my own M&M toon. This is a lot of fun. I really enjoyed playing around with these different sites. I guess being an online gamer and getting to create different characters and making them all look different depending on my mood makes thing 10 fun for me.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Week 4 Thing 9!

OK so I played around with Meriln. It was interesting, but I found it just a bit cumbersome to search through. I did enjoy looking at the different sites to search for different RSS feeds and what not, however I found the one on Bloglines the easiest one to use because I didn't have to know exactly what I wanted to find. Second Life is cool too. I even started playing around with creating an Avitar. Now onto week 5 so I can learn how to add it to my blog! Cheers!

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Week 4 Thing 8 RSS Feed

OK so RSS feeder is interesting. It is kinda nice to be able to see what is new on friends blogs and news pages without having to check each individual page. It is a great way to keep up with what is going on with friends and for work it is nice to keep up with different work blogs etc. I made one of the folders on my bloglines account public. My favorite comic strip lo

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Week 3 Thing 7!

Wow on a roll today, 2 things in a day. About time I started getting some of this stuff actually completed :D. Anyway, something Technology that interests me. Well I have to say starting at a new branch this week where I have to know how to trouble shoot Cybrarian and monitor it has been a good learning experience for me. Being Circ and coming from a big branch where the Librarians always took care of everything with the computers I had not had the opportunity to learn much about it. Even though I am comfortable with computers and use to work as a PTA (before Cybrarian) I never had the time to dedicate to exploring it. I think it is interesting all of the different software that we have to monitor and trouble shoot the computers and how we can do it all from our little information desk is great!

Week 3 Thing 6

Just a quick blog entry for this one. I have been having fun trying to decide what Flickr 3rd party sites and mashups I like best. I think so far the one I have enjoyed exploring the most is the flickr postcard browser it is cool that you could print out custom post cards before you go on a trip, or make your own with pictures you take http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/flickr_postcard_browser/ although just this morning I discovered a site that you can make puzzles out of pictures and that is really cool, could very easily become addicted to it :) http://www.flashpuzzlezone.com/flickr/