Thursday, February 21, 2008
Thing 30 - It's Over!
Thing 29
Before starting Web 2.0 I was a little leary about computers and had no real desire to learn anything, I was happy letting my husband navigate me through technology but now I know that can do it for myself. My learning has not stopped here!!!!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Thing 28
Thing 27
Friday, February 15, 2008
Thing 26


Thing 25
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Thing 24
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Thing 23
Whew! This took me forever! I did it though, honestly, I think it was my own fault that this excercise took me so long but I got it in the end and that's all that matters, right? Anyway, this site is pretty cool, it seems to work off of tags, I didn't exactly see that word anywhere on the site but searching was extremely easy, I entered Library and a ton of things came up, so, for the purposes of this excercise I closed my eyes, spun around three times and picked the one my curser landed on. It's a pretty cool one despite my lack of effort, however, it did not get rave reviews amoungst the young folk.
This could be a pretty cool way for a library to add visual appeal to a wiki, myspace account, or website. I'm sure we would have no problem finding youtube vidoes to go along with any of the topics that we could get into in these virtual worlds.
Thing 22







Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Thing 21
Do I think that our patrons should be allowed access to Flickr at our library? I know there has to be a way that a minors passcode can prevent them from access to certain sites. If we were to figure out how to do that we wouldn't have to worry about the youngsters seeing a picture that they probably shouldn't. Numerous people come to library to use our computers if we start restricting what they can do on them and the sites they can go to then they may just stop coming. As far as the library using Flickr, I think it's a great idea and an awesome way to keep all of our pictures organized. I remember when I first started at the library and learned how to use my e-mail account, their was e-mail after e-mail from people asking everybody to go in and delete pics because the pics folder was full or something of that nature, that wouldn't happen if we had a Flickr account, and, if someone happens to stumble upon our pictures and sees just how awesome our library is that can be nothing but a good thing.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Thing 20 - Flickr
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Thing 19
Thing 17
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Thing 16 - Create a Myspace Account
Thing 15 - Social Networking
Thing 14
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Thing 13
I do think that Wikis' can be and already are useful to libraries. They can be set up to keep an entire city with numerous libraries up to date on things, the information can be changed easily which is a good thing in the library world because things are always changing. It could be very useful. Also, a wiki could be created by the library system for it's customers. The library system could make a wiki for it's book clubs, they could add a link to the wiki on the libraries web site so it could be found easily by participants. Then they could add opinions on the book and so on. I think it's pretty cool.
Thing 12
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Thing 11
I did read three of the resources about Instant Messaging but only one of them told anything about how libraries can use the service. I suppose that it could work, offering IM to our patrons but as I see it we would have to hire a whole team of people to handle the answering of the messages because as it sits we have a hard enough time keeping up with the phones. But I suppose that if I were at home on the computer trying to place holds on the library website and had a question and there was a button I could push to type my question and have it answered with in moments, while I was still placing holds that would seem like a huge convenience and many of our patrons may see it that way as well.
Using IM to speak to co-workers I guess could be useful but really we're all just 3 buttons on the telephone away from each other, then again, if involved in a project like oh I don't know, WEB 2.0, where none of us have any clue what we're doing but there is a library affiliate that does, it might be EXTREMELY convenient to be able to ask her that question via IM. Actually I haven't e-mailed her to ask her my questions because it just seems more formal than a quick question, quick answer IM would.
Thing 10
For this exercise I first tried to use Feedster and Topix but one site was down and the other difficult to use so I wound up at syndic8.com, I entered the word "library" and quick as that came like 600 library related feeds. After finding the one I was interested in I did have to go back and re-listen to the podcast on how to add a feed to your bloglines. But all in all it was pretty painless, however, it's not my favorite.
My favorite was simply using the Bloglines Search Tool. I love it because you just type in your interest, hundreds of feeds pop up, you click on one, scroll down push subscribe and your done, no flipping from bloglines to another sight to copy and paste and what not, it's right there! Awesome!
However, to broaden my horizons a bit I decided to take a look at Bloglines 200 most popular feeds and that is where I found most of my feeds, there is so much cool stuff out there that I maybe do want to know about but never knew it existed, this was the perfect way to let Bloglines give me some suggestions.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
RSS Feeds - Thing 9
Thing 5
- A Librarians 2.0 Manifesto- This video basically outlined the mind set that we should have toward the changes that come along with Web 2.0. Think positively about them and try them even if your current system seems to work fine, try it the Web 2.0 way.
-Library Journal.com - on Library 2.0 - Service for the next Generation- Explains how library customers will benefit from Library 2.0. By excepting and implementing the use of web 2.0 we will be able to service our customers in the way they choose to be served. It says that Library 2.0 is any service that successfully reaches users, is evaluated frequently and uses it's customers input. It talks about the "long tail" which in summary is a higher percentage of people desire to see or read things that are not "hits".
THAT'S ABOUT ALL I GOT.
Well, I think this is the first thing I'm supposed to blog about so here goes:Out of the 7 and 1/2 things this would be the order in which these are EASIEST for me:
1. Begin with the end in mind.
2. Teach and Mentor others.
3. View problems as challenges.
4. Have confidence in myself as a competent effective leader
5. Use technology to your advantage.
6. Create your own learning toolbox.
7. Accept responsibility for my own learning
1/2. PLAY!!!!
Why? Because 1. I am always in a rush so being able to visualize the end is easy for me to do. 2. I love to talk and sound like I know what I'm talking about so teaching is a snap. 3. I don't quite agree with #3, the problem is not a challenge - finding the solution is, anywho, I will leave it where it is. 4. Having confidence in myself is not one of my strong points but totally supersedes 5. using technology and 6. creating my own learning toolbox because I tend to spend a lot of time on my projects solely because I don't prepare for it and tend to not use the technology available but I'm just the kind of person that would rather write than type. Lastly, 7. accepting responsibility is always difficult because it is so much easier on my mind if I can blame an innocent passerby and what they don't know won't hurt them right. :0)