Week 5 # Wikis

LOVED IT!!
How conveniant for everyone! Looking at the different wikis that were provided by libraries 2.0, already i can see how helpful and interesting they are!!! It showed me that there are all different types of wikis. Ranging from the more serious once (like book lovers) to the ones that are mocking and funny (wookieepedia).

Wikis are a great way to communicate and stay in contact with people and allows information to be more orginsed. I love how you can edit the pages by clicking "edit page" (and putting in your user name and password!). It is a great way to access knowledge of a range of different people and usually ones that know more about a subject that i do! hehe.

In libraries it would be a great way to communicate and orginise events (escpecially in our library as we have a number of branches) without the hassel of emails and long phonecalls..

DEFINATLY ONE THAT ILL BE USING!!!

Week 4 # RSS Feeds

I can't say that this week was one that i truely enjoyed. I found it difficult to find the eeds to use and i think it would be just as easy to search for the information you want as you need it. Although i do understand how it could be of help to some people and how it could be used in libraries as it would make it somewhat easier for members of the public and also staff members to gather informations about authors, publishers and the library etc..

Whilst browsing the sites to feed onto my page, i did come across some interesting ones. Like the ABC website (ABC News). This would be helpful and allow you to be updated with the news. Unfortunatly i did not find any other library blogs!!! =[

As i have previously stated i think the RSS Feeds could prove to be useful in the library to gather needed information quickly and officially. I just dont think this is the thing for me!!!!

Flikr Images

Many Faces of the Temp13 (Part of a web banner)
Originally uploaded by temp13rec.

This picture that i found on "flikr" is pretty much what i feel about using this whole images thing. it was so confusing. i had to set up so many different accounts to just get one image!! It left me feeling all of the above images =] hopefully it will become easier!

Libraries Learning Course

I am taking part in this Libraries Learning 2.0 course and finding it quite interesting.

Personally I can understand though why only a small percentage of blogs get read each year. The things that some people write about are unbelievable. There is no way that i want to read about what happens in some random persons everyday life from waking up, going to the toilet, eating and going to bed. Its ridiculous. And why anyone would want to share that information with the whole world has me baffled.

By taking part in these blogs i think alot of us will come to realise that their can actually be some interesting blogs out there. I know in our library we have 2. One for the regional history and one for news.

And besides, the course gets me out of doing actual work =)
BONUS!

Bye for now.