Week 8: Tagging etc

This was an interesting topic, but one that I found difficult. I have often seen the delicious symbol about and around but did not know what it refered to - although I do now!! Social bookmarking and tagging is quite useful and I can definitely see potential for it as a way to share research done on the internet.

I have often found it frustrating when you finally set up your bookmarks on a computer and the only way to use them on another computer is to export and import them. Delicious seems like a much more practical and useful way of doing this.

The idea of then sharing those bookmarks and tags is great, although only within a 'network' with exactly the same interests etc, as otherwise it would become unwieldy and irrelevant.

It is a very good way of sharing knowledge and making it specific to a project or course.

Week 7 - Online Video

This was a great week as I have often used YouTube but only for funny vieos that friends have recommended. I also wondered how people embedded the videos into other websites - so that has now all been uncovered! Who knew that Google had a video storage! I should have guessed, they have everything else.

Anyway - videos can be used for a lot of things in the State Library. The video I have embedded underneath is for a physical tour of a university building which I think is a good example of what can be done quite easily and quickly, and which is quite effective.



I noticed on YouTube that there was a video of Mylee Joseph talking about developing a Library Services model which was great. Who knew that we were doing that at the Library! We should let others know that it is out there!

Week 6 - RSS Feeds

I was looking forward to this week as I know absolutely nothing about RSS feeds and I always see the little orange button at the bottom of pages on the internet.

Now I understand what it is all about!!!! Yeah!

I have added mainly news feeds as that is what I like to keep up to date with. I also tried to add Regina's blog but it didn't work so will have to try again later.

This does appear to be a good way of keeping up to date with news and blogs, however you still need to login to a website so I suppose it saves you the time of visiting several sites, versus only one.

Another issue I notice is that there is a lot of information to look through from the RSS feeds so you need to be able to scan quickly or it will take awhile to check out all of the content.

Week 4 - Wikis

I had heard of Wikis before but didn't really understand how useful they could become!

The concept of using a Wiki for procedures is a great idea. It is a useful way of creating procedures and making sure that they are up to date, relevant and easy to use for people.

Personally I would find it quite daunting to edit a Wiki and would most probably just put a comment rather than editing text. Perhaps it depends on what the wiki was about and what my knowledge was of the subject.

In the Library would could definitely use wikis.

WEEK 3 - AND STILL MOVING . . .

It has been awhile since I talked this last . . . so thought it best to jump straight back in!

Flicker is interesting and there seems to be more photos than you could ever imagine. I am surprised that everyone posts their photos there in such a public domain. Is definitely a handy resource for the future.

I found an imagine and loved it. I think it is a good example of Energy and Teamwork as all of the people are trying to put a puzzle together and that is often what teams need to do. It also reminds me of how good it feels when you are able to finish a puzzle - that great sense of achievement.

This is all sooooo new - Week 2

Well, I have finally made it to writing my own blog! It has taken me quite awhile to get to this point as I have only just started Library 2.0.

Have heard lots about it from other staff and so far I have heard only good things!

I am looking forward to learning about all things Library 2.0 so should be a fun few weeks coming!