Social Networking.... ahhhh... isn't it great. Not only is it a great way for all of us to keep in touch with our friends and family but it also helps the library.
With the library having it's own "myspace" we could make people aware of our events, introduce them to our staff members and many more!
This is a great way to make the library known and to encourage more members of society to use our libraries facilities.
Hopefully my supervisors have the same ideas :)
Well this is going to be my last post! I have had a wonderful time on library learnings 2.0 and am looking forward to more experiences just like this one. Not only has this benifited me but it is also allowing me to help patrons who are interested in this too. Our library has benifeted greatly from this and myself and my fellow staff memebers have gained many ideas to try and make our library more effective.
THANK YOU AND GOOD BYE!!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Week 11 # Online Applications and Tools
Its fantastic to be introduced to all the free products that are available online. Googledocs, for example is great! We have a wordprocessor in our library, which is seperate to our internet computers, and we charge $2.50 for the use of it and an additional 25c for print outs. Googledocs would be a great way to save these people the $2.50 charge. This way the customers would be able to surf the net whilst using googledocs to create a word document. This would be so benifical for our library!
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Week 10 # Mashups
HERE IS MY MASHUP!!
I made a calander. I found this so enjoyable. Putting my own images on there and showing my skills to everyone in the office! These are not only fun but they give a personal touch to things around the office.
I also found a mashup of a calander eith the photo being a picture of the library. This is a great idea as it is advertising the library effectivly as you can hand these out to customers at the start of the year or every time a new member joins. VERY APPROPRIATE!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Week 9 # Podcasts
My little sister knew more about podcasts then i did! It was definiatly time to catch up! She did teach me a thing or two though!
I've listened to podcasts a few times times in the past and found them an easy enough tool to understand.
Podcasting is good for filtering only the material that you want is a great promotion tool. Podcasts will be great for distance learning of any sort.
It was so great to listen to some that we were given the option to on Learning Logs 2.0.
It was great to finally learn more about these!
xxx
I've listened to podcasts a few times times in the past and found them an easy enough tool to understand.
Podcasting is good for filtering only the material that you want is a great promotion tool. Podcasts will be great for distance learning of any sort.
It was so great to listen to some that we were given the option to on Learning Logs 2.0.
It was great to finally learn more about these!
xxx
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Week 8 # Answer boards and social searching
Ahhh technology. What happened to the days where customers wrote down there reveiws on ieces of paper and shared them only with their friends?? And items in the library were borrowed because borrowers had heard they were a good read from there family?
OH NO NOW ITS ALL CHANGED! Borrowers can now post there complaints, reveiws and reccommendations on answer boards. And how wonderful it is.
Customers would really enjoy doing this in the library as they like to share with everyone the types of things they like to read and what they reccomend not to read. They would also be able to comment on the events and activities that we are planning to hold in the library and therefor more(FREE!!!!!) publicity for us!
Sites like "Yahoo!7 Answers" are a great way to communicate effectivly with other poeple who visit the site. People can enlighten you with their knowledge on questions you have asked and new information can be found.
ABSOLUTLEY FANTASTIC!
Although where is the privacy? There is other ways that you can find out answers. By doing a google search or go onto Ask.com for a more private way of gwetting your questions answered.
As for the answer boards being used for libraries though, Great idea! =]
OH NO NOW ITS ALL CHANGED! Borrowers can now post there complaints, reveiws and reccommendations on answer boards. And how wonderful it is.
Customers would really enjoy doing this in the library as they like to share with everyone the types of things they like to read and what they reccomend not to read. They would also be able to comment on the events and activities that we are planning to hold in the library and therefor more(FREE!!!!!) publicity for us!
Sites like "Yahoo!7 Answers" are a great way to communicate effectivly with other poeple who visit the site. People can enlighten you with their knowledge on questions you have asked and new information can be found.
ABSOLUTLEY FANTASTIC!
Although where is the privacy? There is other ways that you can find out answers. By doing a google search or go onto Ask.com for a more private way of gwetting your questions answered.
As for the answer boards being used for libraries though, Great idea! =]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Week 7 # del.icio.us
This week was so confusing. It took me so long to figure out how to link my del.icio.us account to my blog. But i think i have finally got there.
This can be a great way of sharing information with other libraries and easily catagorising your favourite websites without using favourites all the time ( i am very guily of this!)
Knowing that we all can use sites like this will make our jobs alot easier
It's great.
The link to my del.icio.us account is below!!
Au Revoir for now!
This can be a great way of sharing information with other libraries and easily catagorising your favourite websites without using favourites all the time ( i am very guily of this!)
Knowing that we all can use sites like this will make our jobs alot easier
It's great.
The link to my del.icio.us account is below!!
Au Revoir for now!
Monday, April 7, 2008
Week 6 # Videos Online
Whoever invented YouTube needs a HUGE pat on the back. I have to admit before this i had never experienced Google Video before but i think that this is great as well!! Not only are these useful for finding comical and funny things (like the famous Summer Heights High, does anyone else LOVE this show!!!????) but it is also an extremelly usueful way to show people information.
We have all heard the horror stories although about people filming violent attacks made on other people and they have been posted on sites such as "you tube" but surely there is a way to monitor this so it can be used to entertain and benifet the rest of us who would like to use the service sensibly!
I found both of these sites extremely easy to use and also enjoyed every minute of it. It would also be extremely benificial to libraries that would like to give their community and other communities a look inside their library and visual show them what services they have to offer. I think it would be a very good form of advertisement escpecially because you can make the segment appealing by the use of background music and commentaries.
I think that as more people see the benifits of these sites it will become more widely used.
I love both Family guy and the simpons. The battle is on in this You tube video. And it was so easy to embed aswell(not!!)!!
Everyone will enjoy this one!
Good luck!
We have all heard the horror stories although about people filming violent attacks made on other people and they have been posted on sites such as "you tube" but surely there is a way to monitor this so it can be used to entertain and benifet the rest of us who would like to use the service sensibly!
I found both of these sites extremely easy to use and also enjoyed every minute of it. It would also be extremely benificial to libraries that would like to give their community and other communities a look inside their library and visual show them what services they have to offer. I think it would be a very good form of advertisement escpecially because you can make the segment appealing by the use of background music and commentaries.
I think that as more people see the benifits of these sites it will become more widely used.
I love both Family guy and the simpons. The battle is on in this You tube video. And it was so easy to embed aswell(not!!)!!
Everyone will enjoy this one!
Good luck!
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