Activity 8: Google Docs

Ok so it's Zoho Writer or Google Docs.
Going to go with Google as I already have a Google account and everyone else seems to have done the Zoho thing.

Wikis

http://hbl2webolution.pbwiki.com/

Ok so we are looking at Wikis, interesting. Having a play in the sandbox... hmmmm..

Found an interesting page that was very useful and helpful:

http://www.squidoo.com/librarywikis

Also found that CSU has it's own : http://csulibrary.wetpaint.com/

Guess there are loads of different types of applications we could use within the library. They could be internal like communicating the latest "whats on news" or the agenda for a meeting. It could be used for book reviews, school projects and just sharing information, really the possibilities are endless.

Library 2.0 and the future of Libraries

Activity 6: Library 2.0 and the future of Libraries

What does this mean to me, you may well ask!

With things in the big wide world of communications changing daily, us as a service provider needs to be able to keep up with the ever changing demands of our patrons and the fact what was new and shiny yesterday, is now old and out of date. For us as a supplier of information, we need to be able to deliver this to our patrons in the most appropriate and user friendly forms available. Our patrons need to be able to interact with this information and our services and be able to provide feedback, so we can tweak any of the little snags along the information superhighway. It's human nature, that if we find something comfortable and easy to use, we will use it more often. If we visit a place which is warm and friendly and full of helpful information and advise, we will go back there. And if we are able to interact with the technology, voice our concerns or our views, participate in group activities and the like, we will feel more at ease and be more likely to help in working towards the overall improvement wider community.
Hey but that's just my 2 cents worth! You make up your own mind.

Technorati

Activity 6 ~ Still working my way through Technorati.
Not sure if I have it down pat though, claimed my my blog from this site, but it wouldn't let me claim my blog on bloglines, no matter which way I did it, and I did try a few variations. Have to see what else I come up with.
Checked out the popular blogs and searches, some good, some rather strange. Couldn't find anything with the tag : hblwebolution
Read the section on tagging your posts and also doing doing your photos from flickr.. a little confusing but when I have more time to play with this I will see what I can do.

http://technorati.com/blogs/thewickedlibrarian.blogspot.com

Del.icio.us is

Ok, so I have hunted around Del.icio.us.is, created an account :
http://delicious.com/thewickedlibrarian
bookmarked a few things... yeah more Genealogy stuff, gee am I getting all geeky.

Rollyo

Well just opened up a Rollyo account and did a search on Genealogy. Wow what a list.

http://www.rollyo.com/explore.html?rollterm=genealogy&x=0&y=0

Going to have to go into this more thoroughly when I have heaps more time, but yeah I like this one.