Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Extra Entry
Some of my entries have been on mass as I have been busy working on the technical side of a program we have been running at work for Moreton Bay Region Libraries. Mashitup 2009. I have been uploading and creating the DVD's for the finals of this program. To find out more about the program go to www.myspace.com/mashitup_filmfest and to see this years entries http://www.youtube.com/ and search for mashitup09. I believe there are still tickets available for the finals night at Redcliffe on the 10th July. Get your free tickets from www.myspace.com/mashitup_filmfest Great family night. See the top 20 entries from the Mashitup 2009 program on the big screen.
Conclusion
I have thoroughly enjoyed this program and style of learning. It has given me more confidence and improved my knowledge of the Web 2.0 and how to use these options in the library service. I will be sharing my new knowledge with my work team to help and encourage them to learn these skills too. Great work SLQ and Mary. Brilliant work. Keep it up. Please let me know when there is more to learn and challenge us.
Library Thing
What a great tool. I am never going to lose my little blue indexed book again. I have used this book to record what books I have read but now......Library thing can do this for me and I will always have this information available online as long as I have a computer.
This tool would be great for book clubs to record their reviews and see what other book groups think too. It is so easy to use and register. I might even pay for an unlimited account as my list of readings increases.
http://www.librarything.com
or visit my new readings list (more to come)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/leotwe
This tool would be great for book clubs to record their reviews and see what other book groups think too. It is so easy to use and register. I might even pay for an unlimited account as my list of readings increases.
http://www.librarything.com
or visit my new readings list (more to come)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/leotwe
Try this site- Delicious Bookmarks
I think this is a great tool and it has so much to offer. I am starting to add my favourites and bookmarks but it may take me awhile to sort and tag them. I think this will be a very handy tool for at work. We have a games session that we had made a list of sites that offer free online games that we have listed as being suitable to the children that come to the sessions. I will be adding these sites to Delicious so that I can have access worldwide. The idea of sharing sites is brilliant as someone might have already found some good sites and by sharing it can reduce others search time. Can't wait to add, tag and share.
http://delicious.com/
http://delicious.com/
Saturday, June 27, 2009
RSS feeds
I have been using a RSS and reader from Google for a while. My choice of feeds include -
Next Reads from my library http://feeds.feedburner.com/MbrcLibraryRss , I have advised quite a few of my library patrons to join this feed so that they can keep up-to-date with what is happening in our libraries.
school library journal http://feeds.feedburner.com/SchoolLibraryJournal-TechnologyNews
and
forever geeks http://www.forevergeek.com/feed/
I have made my home page for my gmail to igoogle page and when i log in it not only shows my emails but my RSS feeds too.
I think our library could also use a RSS feed for when we start our youth book club and it will depend on which social networking tools we use. I am thinking maybe a blog site that the youth can receive RSS feeds when we update the blog.
Also if a libray has a special team working on a project, by having a RSS feed connected say to a blog site etc then all the staff involved can be receiving feeds when any of their team add to the blog so this may be a great way of keeping ontop of a project.
Next Reads from my library http://feeds.feedburner.com/MbrcLibraryRss , I have advised quite a few of my library patrons to join this feed so that they can keep up-to-date with what is happening in our libraries.
school library journal http://feeds.feedburner.com/SchoolLibraryJournal-TechnologyNews
and
forever geeks http://www.forevergeek.com/feed/
I have made my home page for my gmail to igoogle page and when i log in it not only shows my emails but my RSS feeds too.
I think our library could also use a RSS feed for when we start our youth book club and it will depend on which social networking tools we use. I am thinking maybe a blog site that the youth can receive RSS feeds when we update the blog.
Also if a libray has a special team working on a project, by having a RSS feed connected say to a blog site etc then all the staff involved can be receiving feeds when any of their team add to the blog so this may be a great way of keeping ontop of a project.
Social networking
We have used myspace for social networking at work for the mashitup program that we run. We use this for communicating to the participates and anyone else interested in the program. We even have it linked so that you can order your final show tickets online.
Participants can become our friends and whenever we have new information we just post it and it is surprising to see how many follow the page.
Check it out
www.myspace.com/mashitup_filmfest
We are also looking at using a social networking tool for our new youth book clubs. We won't know which one until we have a talk with the group and see which one they might like.
Participants can become our friends and whenever we have new information we just post it and it is surprising to see how many follow the page.
Check it out
www.myspace.com/mashitup_filmfest
We are also looking at using a social networking tool for our new youth book clubs. We won't know which one until we have a talk with the group and see which one they might like.
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