Exciting Web 2.0 Awards

Yes! At first I thought: "Here we go again. A massive incomprehensive site with an unlimited amount of possibilities. Where do I start?" However, to my delight, most of the award winners I perused, seemed very good. Especially Last fm peeked my interest. I have always been a music lover but I have not been so good at identifying who plays what and this will give me a chance to learn more. I also liked the I'm cooked sight which I could see some of our patrons using. I'm still not quite sure how to apply some of it to the library but as I explore more, the ideas will come...

Sad Suvi

 I was just about to write how happy I was that this was so similar to my oh so familiar Word but now, my text color and font refuses to stay as the choices I attempted several times.

PBCLS Wiki

This was one activity I really enjoyed! I wish I had more time to play... It has been a busy evening and so many "interesting" people have been by either by phone or in person. Needless to say, I got diverted from all the fun stuff. I edited my favorite vacation page and saw a comment on the favorite music page that I just had to go and complement - yes I edited that one too. I hope everyone finds this activity as fun as I did :-)

Wiki's Have Potential

I have looked at the Library Best Practices Wiki before. I was browsing through different categories and found a few things that were informative or helpful. However, I don't care much for the Wikipedia format of the page with boring colors and information all jammed together. I do love the idea that people like me who are not super techie can create information on a web page without memorizing html code etc. The nicest wiki was the Bull Run Library one because there was a bit of color and large headings. I have proposed in the past that wiki's could be a great way to communicate within a building and between departments. For example a branch wiki could be useful because you can inform everyone quickly about patron situations or about some item that needs to be taken care of a certain way. However, the downside is that not everyone is on the computer all the time and still might miss timely communication. It would still be worth a shot to try.

Future of Libraries

All I can say is that we need to keep up with the times. However, it is very difficult if you are not naturally techie. I am just learning about Library 2.0 now and I can see the benefits of how it can help us serve our customers better. However, I can't understand much beyond that. It's almost like a sci fi movie...

Technorati not my cup of tea

What I wanted to say is technocrappy... I did not like it. I find it confusing. This is the first excercise where I felt I was truly wasting my time. Either I don't understand how it works or it is not set up very well. When I would click on something, I really didn't get anywhere. The one posting I wanted to read, was incomplete. Click, click, click, still no where... seems like my first days on the WWW...
To use this I would need a one on one tutor.

Delicious

I have had a delicious account before, so without reinventing the wheel, I once again went back and looked at it trying to remember why I don't use it. My tags were pretty messed up because at some point I "imported" favorites and the tag line had added the word "imported" to many of the tags... I now went and fixed some taking that extra name off. So, some of my tags were useful, some web pages had been deleted and some were just old things I had looked up and not relevant. I had never really searched before so I did that and didn't find it too helpful. I looked at popular postings and did find the web 2.0 tag useful. I added the web 2.0 directory that 20 billion other people have tagged as well.

Library Thing

I created an account at the librarything.com I added some titles but found the process very time consuming. Perhaps there is a quicker way to do it than add titles one by one but honestly I don't have that much time to play around to figure that. I will ask if anyone else who uses if there are any time saving tricks. If you are reading this blog and have answers, please comment!

Who is that Wild thing

Watch me turn into a
Panther at YouWild.org