Week 7 No 16 wiki

From what I have seen a wiki is alot like a fitch and a blog, where you can write about a subject and save it as a draft and publish it when you are finished and anyone can add to it. I do not think I would use it myself but it would be good if we could get our Akzone kids as they could write about their favioute books and see what other kids their age say about the books they like. They would be good for Patrons who espeacially into the local history of the area they live in.

One thing that is frustating about wikies is that if someone is looking at or editing the wiki you want to look at you can't get into it.

Week 6 no 15 Library web 2.0

I liked what Rick Anderson said in Away from Icebergs about how Libraries had the monopoly of power in the information market in the era when information was only in print form, but the Internet and web 2.0 has opened that market right up and we need to use tools like web 2.0 and blogger and Rss feeds to bring our information to our public so they do not go alse where for it as they will if we not not.

We also need to make sure that our services are user friendly and do not require much training eg( like just a click here & there it is or it is done), not a long list of intructions.

We need our patrons to have more say in what they want not assume to always know what they what.

Week 6 technorati

I got 92,048 results for a key word search on web 2.0 then realized it was learning 2.0 & got
4,973 results and 718 for Bogs search. You get everything and anything when you do the general search as I did with people commenting on the changing nature of information, to someone calling themselves silicon florist taking about a book called knitting 2.0.

When I did the blog search I came across a blogger called Marys/ramblings who is a Librarian in Melbourne and by the looks of her blog she is doing web 2.0 and she is finding a lot of the web sites very American as am I. One thing I like about bloging is you get to see what other people from different parts of the globe are saying and thinking.

Tags

They are great time savers and they connect you to heaps of other blogs

Week 6 no 13 tagging in Del.icio.us

Del.icio.us



I can see why some people would like it as another way to keep track of their favorite sites, but it is a bit like favorites to me and Rss . I would not use it as you can see by my blog name I am new to all this and I have just a few sites I like to go into, and I just google them or just click on my favorites depending on what computer I am on at the time.

Week 5 no 12 Rollyo

I found Rollyo a bit frustrating at times, it was a lot like news feeds and favorites in the way you select the sites you want but not as easy to select them. Why have peoples profiles on the site when you cannot go into them.

http://http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=newscine&sid=322580

Week 5 no 11 library catalogue

I quite liked this online book group web site, I enjoyed listing my favourite bks
and I can see how people would enjoy connecting with other people who enjoy the same
bks and to see what they got out of it and sometimes others pick up things you missed.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/elle747

Week 5 no 10 image generator

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I found it easy to make this image as it is a bit like making a template but the hard part was trying to save it to my blog and I was lucky that one of my team mates had already done it.

I also had a look at the fd toys one that is on Flicker and had a look at a few peoples favourite images which was fun.