Week 7 : #17 Playing around with PBWiki

Adding my blog to the favourites on PBwiki learning 2.0 was very easy. The hardest part was deciding where to add it. As Greater Dandenong didn't have it's own heading I added my blog to the bottom of the Australian blog list.

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

I think Wiki's are a great way to share information. You would have to try to monitor the content being added but on a whole I really like the idea. Just looking at the "Library Success : A best practices wiki" you can see how you can use this tool for virtually any subject to do with libraries. A disadvantage I can see is that because anyone can add to a wiki the content could be subjective and only the authors opinion on the subject. I would not use a wiki as my sole source of information for this reason. On the whole though for sharing information, book reviews, training ideas......the list is endless, I think wiki's are a fantastic way to share information.

Week 6 : #15 On library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ...

It was interesting to read these articles about where Web 2.0 can take libraries into the future. Once borrowers learn how to use these search features for finding information I can see how print material may become a thing of the past. The again, I also believe it depends on the type of borrowers your library caters to. We have a large LOTE population as well as a growing elderly population who wouldn't embrace this new technology. We would have to find a way to balance using this technology without alienating borrowers who simply just want to come in, browse the shelves, have a quick chat and take home a pile of good books to read.

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

Technorati is a website to search for Blogs. I did a search for my blog and found it straight away. I also looked at the 100 most popular blogs (actually I scanned the titles of the first 30 before losing interest) and was surprised at what was rated as most popular - Boing, Boing. I didn't do the optional extra challenge of tagging my posts as it looked a bit difficult so I did the other option of claiming my blog. Technorati had a bit of a seizure when I tried to do this and kept freezing on me (does this mean my blog is not worthy of claiming or was it our dreaded Webmarshall causing problems again?) so I might have look from home to see if I am more successful in claiming and adding other blogs to my watchlist.

Week 6 - #13 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking with Del.icio.us

I had fun searching Del.icio.us and I joined up and made my own account- http://del.icio.us/lanneh . Looking briefly at del.icio.us it is just another way to bookmark favourite sites with the "social" aspect added. I have loaded the del.icio.us buttons onto my internet browser for easy access and future tagging so hopefully this is something I will continue use in the future. (Unlike some of the other stuff I have learnt so far- it has been lots of fun but I don't think I will retain alot of it.)

Week 5 : #12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

I have never heard of Rollyo before and was happy to see it was very easy to use and set up my own search roll. It's a great way to clump all your favourite web pages onto one search engine, making it easier and quicker for searching in the future. I made up a romance reader search roll and have added it to my blog.

Week 5 : #11 All about LibraryThing

LibraryThing is a great website for booklovers. I enjoyed searching for my favourite books and seeing how other people rated them in their reviews. I found it easy to use but had to change my blog template to accommodate my book covers in a layout that I liked best.

Week 5 : Play Week #10 Play around with Image Generators

I created this "mini me" in Doppleme.com. I can see this is going to be a fun week of learning! The link to Doppleme is http://www.doppelme.com/create/ I looked at Onemorelevel.com and made my own pocket emo but unfortunately I was unable to post the direct link to my emo. Here is the link to the website instead : http://www.onemorelevel.com/games.php?game=543
I also made a message on the Bob Dylan generator which was fun. Here is the link to that generator : http://www.dylanmessaging.com/create

I think that's enough as you could definatley spend all day looking and playing with these websites!

Week 4 : #9 Finding Feeds

Finding newsfeeds was quite easy to do. I searched via Bloglines which I found was the easiset to use. I also briefly checked out Feedster, Topix.net and Technorati but didn't spend any time on them as I think you could easily spend hours searching and choosing which feeds you wanted to subscribe to. I subscribed to 2 newsfeeds on Bloglines for this activity: Dear Author, which is a romance review site and Nancy Pearl book reviews as I went and saw her at the State Library earlier in the year.

Week 4 : #8 RSS and newsreaders

I found this exercise a bit frustrating only because on my work computer Webmarshall won't allow me to see all the exciting links that I painstakingly added. I will have to check from home to make sure that I worked through the exercise correctly but on the whole it was pretty easy to do.
Here is my bloglines address: http://www.bloglines.com/public/Lanne