Week 8 Web 2.0 Awards

I looked at the Short List of Winners. Saw some sites I already know about, Technorati-Library Thing-Flickr. I was interested in the travel award winners. Farecast was #1 and is airline flights. Kayak was #2 flights, hotels and car rentals. Realtravel was the best one for my interests with discover places to go and things to see. It was #3. I bookmarked five other award winners for future browsing.

Week 8 Online Productivity Tools

I looked around at Zoho writer. Made a document of THEMES FOR STORYHOUR 2007-08 and tried (many, many time to post to my blog)...I finally did it. This Zoho site has lots of good things. I would like to do the Zoho planner and have emails sent to remind me of my scheduled appointments.

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LaVale Library Storyhour Themes 2007-2008

Sept 12 Wheels on the bus

Sept 19 Friends

Sept 26 Dinosaurs

Week 7 Sandbox entry

I entered my list of a few favorite children's books to use for story hour on the PB wiki. Also entered my blog on the favorite-blogs area. I copied the url from that entry. http://marylandlibrariessandbox.pbwiki.com/Favorite-Blogs.

Week 7 Wikis

When I looked around at the Library Wikis I found a few interesting things-

When I viewed Wikipedia in the past (before 23 Things) I had no idea it allows users to add, remove and edit content.

I discovered the posibility to post synopses and reviews on library catalogs by library users.

I see the use of collaborating group work instead of sending emails.

I'll go back and spend some time looking around on Book Lover's Wiki.

Our Jennifer has become famous with her idea 23 THINGS OFFICE HOURS at Active Forum Topics on MERLIN Wikis and File Sharing.

Week 6 Del.icio.us - Technorati - My 2.0 Thoughts

Del.icio.us was elusive to me. I got bogged down each time I tried to go in and look around. I finally joined and made myself spend time in del.icio.us. I did searches of PLCMCL2 and mdlearn2. I found "Questing Librarian" on PLCMCL2. I liked her blog on the future library. I didn't know that TAG CLOUDS are a list of tags where size reflects popularity. It is a great way to connect to sites other people with like interests have made. The thought of stalking other people's bookmarks didn't interest me until I looked at a few. It was great. I like the idea of creating bookmarks to be accessed from any computer I am using.

I explored Technorati and registered. I looked at PLCMCL2 and mdlearn2. There was someone griping about being unable to view 2.0 Ottergroup and someone was annoyed by the name and periods of deli.cio.us. I added the top favorite blog "Engadget" to my blog feeds. Top search was Ron Paul, didn't look at that one. Top Blogs, Boingboing which is a weblog of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. Every place I looked related tags, folksonomies will take you on forever.

The delivery of library services for the future will be an exchange between library staff and customers. Library 2.o signals the end of one directional services. 2.o encourages feedback and participation by customers. I saw a blog about libraries that do IM Reference. In the future the blog buzz will be about the BEST LIBRARIAN AVATAR. Will it me the Nora Avatar or the Pam Avatar that collects the most "Amazon Stars" from satisfied customers. For the most part, I am having fun getting to know this stuff.

Generator

Here it is my Generator Thingy

LibraryThing

I have used LibraryThing before so this wasn't new to me. I catalogued some books that are on my list to read in the future. Also some books I am reading now for our Book Discussions here at LaVale. The tags I put on these books are very personal to me. I don't think anyone will be finding anything with my tags. I bought a copy of local author Joseph A Murray's book, ALEXANDER HAMILTON:AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN FOUNDER. I put that on my list with a tag of Cumberland, MD. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ms08lava

Rollyo Dashboard

I made an account with Rollyo and did my own search page on knitting. I used my mrs-sippi knitter as my search engine. I entered a few favorite web sites. http://rollyo.com/marie_shipley/my_mrs-sippi_knitter/. I am in a fog with this one. I am sure I am missing something.