Week 7, Thing 16, Thing 17

I find Wikipedia to be a very useful site if I need quick information about a topic or as a starting off point. I looked at several "wiki" sites. I liked the idea of a wiki set up for a convention. It is a way for people to post helpful information for all those attending the meetings. My department could set up a wiki as a place to post any changes or updates to our procedures. Many of us work part-time and are not always able to attend every meeting. It could be a good place to record and document any decisions.

I left a comment on the SI sandbox wiki created by Beth Tribe since there is a problem with the Maryland Libraries sandbox wiki.

Week 6, Thing 15

Library 2.0 - what does it mean to me? I started to think about my first job in a library and the technological changes and advances since that time. Libraries need to embrace new technologies that may help the customer, not just for the sake of technology. Library 2.0 is bringing about enormous changes in the world of library cataloging. Will my job as a cataloger in a public library even exist in 10 years? Yet there still is a great need for people to organize materials and create finding tools for information that exists - whether it is Web based information or books.

Week 6, Thing 13, Thing 14

I had a little trouble understanding the point of Del.icio.us at first. After looking it over for awhile I see that it could be useful. I added tags to a number of sites but I'm not sure that I will ever use it. Since tagging does not use a controlled vocabulary, people can use different terms for the same thing. This makes it more difficult to find what you want. Sometimes the tags can be too broad or too narrow.

Technorati

I did a keyword search in Blog posts on "Learning 2.0" and got 4,228 results. The same search in tags pulled in 677 hits and 679 hits in the Blog directory. Keyword searches always retrieve more hits many of them irrelevant.

It looks like many of the Top Favorited blogs have to do with technology, many of the top searches are on celebrity names and the top blogs are technology related or about politics. An interesting thing is that "Learning 2.0" is listed as one of the top searches at the moment.

Week 5, Thing 12

I created a "My travel search" Rollyo. I think this will be helpful in planning a vacation because I usually end up going back and forth between different web sites looking for hotel reviews and ratings. I like that you can place the RollBar in your browser to create a bookmark.

Week 5, Thing 11

I had heard about LibraryThing but had never looked at the website. As a cataloger, I found this site to be an interesting way to maintain a catalog of my own personal library. Many times friends ask me for a recommendation of a good book to read but the titles don't always come to mind. This way I can keep an account of all the books I enjoyed reading.

Week 5, Thing 10

I spent quite a lot of time with Meez. During my first attempt I was able to create an avatar but for some reason was unable to place it in my blog. I never did figure out the problem. I saved the character and decided to leave it for another day. I went back to it today and this time I had no problem putting it in the blog. When I saw it in the blog I decided to change the title. Now I have 2 characters with different titles and I can't seem to figure out how to delete one of these from the blog. Anyone know how? I also played around with Yahoo avatars and tried the Generator blog.

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