Sunday, March 22, 2009

Thing 14 Sunday 3/22/09

I created an igoogle account, with various feeds of interest to me. Everything at a glance. No bouncing all over the place to view favorites. Big time saver to be sure.

Thing13 Sunday 3/22/09

This was easy. It also will come in handy (as will all of the things) as I embark on creating a website. This is all very timely for me. Good stuff.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Thing 12 Thursday 3/19/09

I don't think I care for the wiki. It seems to have a lot of potential to be a platform for rude behavior. Of course it depends on the personalities that are having the exchange but, to be able to change what a person has presented for discussion through deletion or altering the text doesn't strike me as the best way to share ideas or enjoy meaningful debate.

Thing 11 Thursday 3/19/09

Well this was easy...but I'm not sure what good it is to me. I can see on a library site that teens could have the lure of new information about their favorite artists and such.
For an individual, having an auto-source for everything that they want on a daily basis is pretty handy. It reminds me of RSS only more broad in scope.

Thing 10 Thursday 3/19/09

The term delicious isn't new to me. We have it on our library website. What I didn't get was what a great tool it is. To take have your favorites waiting on you wherever you are and whatever PC you might be on is a great idea.
For the patron to be able to have our favorites at their beck & call would be a convenient feature.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Thing 9 Thursday 3/12/09

I have had trouble with this one. I tried to get it to display right on the blog but, to no avail. I lost the code. I'll have to do this one again.

Ok...back again. I gave in to using the existing template and got it on the page. COOL!

Monday, March 9, 2009

Thing 8 Monday 3/9/09

I have an IM account on google. I used it once or twice. It always seemed like"Why didn't you just call?" I will go into it further and see how it feels again.
In a library setting, where there are so many things going on, it just seems like one more thing to have to monitor. In an "Ask a librarian" setting it makes perfect sense, but past that even after reading all of the pro IM stuff, it doesn't seem practical in an every day, all day long scenario.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Thing 7 Wednesday 3/4/09


This was both easy and fun. I can see this being a big time saver as far as putting together graphics for programming and events etc.