Week 8: #19 Web-based Apps: They're not just for desktops

I signed up for a free account with Zoho and played around with Zoho writer and the spreadsheet. I think this sight is a great tool for those who do not have or cannot afford the expensive Microsoft packages. Also it makes sharing projects with coworkers so easy. All they have to have is a computer and be online. I attempted to send my work to my blog but I was not successful. I will continue to work on that. But for now, it's really time to do some real library work like check in and check out books!

Week 8: #18 Social Networking: Making friends in the comfort of your own home

I have to be honest. I hardly have time to keep up with my personal email so I don't think I will be setting up an account in any of the Social networks. http://ratemyspace.hgtv.com/ and http://www.dogster.com/ were kind of interesting. I suppose if I had time, I might possibly check those out every now and then. I can definitely see how the younger generations are really getting into the networks.

Week 7: #17 Blog About Technology

Technology is great when it works!!!!! I'm still pretty slow when it comes to using the new technology out there such as MP3 players, Ipods, etc. I've only had my cell phone for 3 years. As with other new gadgets, I can't do without it now. But, I only use it to talk to people. I do not take pictures with it and I don't text message. Give me a few years and I'll probably be texting all the time!

Week 7: #16 So what's in a wiki?

I am a little familiar with Wikis since we have one at Tomball. I enjoyed the Wiki site listed in this assignment for Book Lovers. I actually found a Jodi Picoult book that I haven't read. Imagine that! Several of the other wikis look much like Wikipedia. I added a couple things to HCPL's wiki.

Week 6: #15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I found the articles on Library 2.0 very interesting. It's clear that not only have our libraries changed significantly since I started working in 1990, but they will continue to change even at a faster pace. Having worked at a small library for many years, I think the customer service part of Library 2.0 has been existence for quite awhile. I enjoyed reading Dr. Wendy Schultz's article, "To a temporary place in time...." She seems to place a great deal of importance of the idea that we continue to listen to our customers relating to changes in the library world. I'm just getting used to the idea of Library 2.0 - hope it's around for awhile before 3.0 and 4.0 replace it!

Week 6: #14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I explored through Technorati some. It's really amazing. I performed the searches for "Learning 2.0" as instructed. There were significant differences in the hits depending on the method of searching. There were 6,837 results through the Blog search, 662 results through the tag search, and 691 through the blog directory search.

I found it interesting that Learning 2.0 is one of the most popular searches - do you suppose HCPL is partly responsible for this?????

I'm not quite ready to tag my blog with Technorati. Maybe in the next few days.

Week 6: #13 Tagging makes the web 2.0 world go round

I viewed the 8 minute tutorial. It was rather fuzzy and kept cutting in and out, so I wasn't able to get much from it. I did some exploring around Delicious and HCPL's membership. I'm not sure I would use this service very much, but I can see how it would be useful for research in both the academic and public sectors. The benefit that interested me the most was the ability to access all of your bookmarks no matter where you are. Very interesting.....

Week 5 #12 Library Elf

Library Elf was available today. It looks like a very useful service. I decided not to register since I have only one library card that I use and HCPL does such a terrific job of alerting me regarding the status of my account. I can see that this service would be very useful in small library systems.


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Week 5 # 11 Library Thing

This was pretty easy to do. I like this author- she's from the Pacific Northwest. Her novels are set in this area

Week 5 #10 Play around with image generators

I'm trying to add this mosaic to my blog using FD toys or Big Huge Labs. I'm hoping it turns out. We will see. I'm going to expore some of the other generators where I might be able to learn how to place a my blog name behind the picture of the pie. DIDN'T WORK - WILL TRY SOMETHING ELSE. TIME TO GO HOME. Okay, I played around with http://headerbar.com to add the picture and text to my blog title. I think it turned out okay. I still was not able to remove the very small print. Moving on to next assignment.

Week 4 #9 Finding feeds

I found using Bloglines the easiest for finding more feeds to add to my blogline. The Syndic8 and Technorati links were not as user friendly. I also thought their layout was way too busy, so I didn't use them. I did look around Feedster under the Travel channel. I found a blogline about some Seattle suburbs that was interesting. Topix looks useful since it allows you to get up to the minute news about the area you live in.

Is there a way to add your blogline to your blog space we have created? That would be very useful.

Week 4 #8 - Setting up account on bloglines.com

Setting up my new account on bloglines was very easy. I've added several newsfeeds at this point and will add more later today. I like the idea that I can save this website to my favorites, so I'm being very choicy about what I add to the blogline. This has been a pretty simple exercise.