Social Tech

Visiting YouTube

2007-08-17T11:42:00.001-07:00

I wandered through YouTube categories and did a few broad searches.

Roving librarian was not successful.

Video on customer service tenets used in a college tech shop were well done:

Where in Google Earth is Matt was a nice spin on a travel video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbNuKvp0dY

This may have some potential as another resource for patrons interested in travel.

Not sure how to turn the title into a live link? It should be obvious but it's not to me.

Web 2.0 Award Possibilities

2007-08-17T10:55:00.000-07:00

Find these good to browse through and better for going back when I have more time to look at.

Used a health website, asked a question & got a very detailed answer from a reputable site (Mayo Health Clinic).

I was looking for other wiki sites to try and found them here: wetpaint, ottowiki, and stikipad - will go back and see if they can help us with a better look for our NT wiki and potentially others. Also have referred them to another NT member.

Zoho - see this as a possible bookmark for the public library pc's. They can travel anywhere and find their documents without having to keep them on a floppy or flash drive.

Google organization - Someone suggested Google calendar as a possibility for meeting rooms. Worth another look.

Truly I feel Web 2 awards - this grouping of sites - has the most potential for finding usage in libraries.

23 Things a la Zoho

2007-08-16T12:12:00.001-07:00

The work on 23 Things has been fun, uneven at times, sometimes intimidating, but above all an opportunity to learn. It has been truly a discovery tool. Whether all of these pieces are library related is not for sure, but people are using them and that part is good to know.

What I liked best:

Podcast and video tools for learning about a new concept. Short, direct and to the point, these tools get the message across very effectively. Would recommend them to everyone.
Technorati - I have a sticky on my monitor to check it every day. Have I done that in the last 3 days? No, but I will - and it is a great way to see what the top blogs are actually blogging about.
Wikis - The explanation was helpful.
Blogs - Helped refine my sense of where we might go with either blogs or wikis.

That's all for now.

Week 7 - Wikis

2007-08-16T11:35:00.000-07:00

Good basics about wikis though I’m really looking for other sources than pbwiki to use for AACPL wikis – what we’re really looking for are other wiki “farms.” The Rochester wiki was different in that it was a whole community wiki.
Liked the answer to why use a wiki? It’s a web-based place to organize your thoughts, one particular subject, etc.
Would we benefit from a few basic wikis addressing some frequently asked for subject area? What about the R/A training – for the public TO ADD TO.
Love the general tips for a library 2.0 program - Oregon Library Instruction Program. How about 15 minutes a day for new tech? – at least for some of us – that’s the Oregon model.
Want to try “Wet Paint” and “WikiSpaces”
A lot more interest here in a subject I feel has potential and I've explored before.

Week 6 Tagging, Folksonomy & Technorati

2007-08-13T08:33:00.001-07:00

Tagging - I'll try it!

Technorati - a directory of blogs - how librarianish it seems. I did find this helpful to see all or many of the blogs in one place. From a personal point of view Adrianna Huffington and her blog is often in the news. I looked around when Karl Rove's resignation had just come into the news. A lot of fun.

The search for Learning 2.0 led me to Lucy's postings - another 23 things person. Enjoyed her comments and was motivated to respond because I found her there. The Technorati video was very helpful as have other videos on RSS etc I've viewed.

I've now got some Favorites on Technorati.

Library 2.0 - Michael Stephens piece was motivating. He's practical and offers suggestions that seem realistic.

Library Thing

2007-07-23T09:00:00.000-07:00

LibraryThing is a great source - I love what you can do with it.

I could see getting lost here - that old technology (print) still has appeal.

Week of July 23 Image Generator

2007-07-23T08:25:00.000-07:00

How sweet it is! This was fun.

Week of July 17

2007-07-17T10:15:00.001-07:00

I'm revisiting Week 4 and ready to dip into Week 5. I went back to Bloglines to see some of the blogs I had signed up for last week. They're still there with a few updates added.

A must see is one of Common Craft Show's videos - www.commoncraft.com/show They are fun to watch & make everything New Tech understandable in just a few minutes.

2007-07-10T10:37:00.000-07:00

Looking at week 4 work -

Small successes - saving RSS feeds to my old Bloglines account. I haven't used it in a while but it was there waiting (patiently) for me to come back.

I did confuse Bloglines with Blogspot - I am, however, determined to make sense out of these pieces.

I did like Hennepin Co. & Denver Public's MySpace pages.

Mentioned somewhere in week 4 was the idea of working w/ the community to build a MySpace page.

I'm still in need of notes (paper at this point) of what I'm learning in a video tutorial so that I can then remember the next time I go back.

Week 3

2007-06-21T09:07:00.000-07:00

I could spend a lot of time looking through photos on Flickr - particularly liked the flickrvision - photos in the moment.

It does seem like film is on its way out.

2007-06-14T12:23:00.000-07:00

2007-06-14T10:57:00.000-07:00

Straightforward assignment - especially once I double clicked in the right place to get the podcast working. Probably rushing. Patience with self-directed learning is a habit I could cultivate more fully.

2007-06-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

Easy Habit - Accepting responsibility for my own learning is something I can take on ok. I don't see having a lot of trouble with that even though the actual learning part might be challenging.

Difficult Habit - Using technology to my advantage. Trouble doing what I know is possible to do.

Had trouble turning a photo into a url. Haven't been successful yet.

Social Tech

2007-06-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

Trying out a color & a font. Hoping this will be a place I can easily add to & review from time to time.