Week #6 continued

Hi All

Well i think library thing is one of my favourite sites so far. It is easy to use, really easy to add books to your own catalogue- what a great idea. I like the way that Kingston library is using library thing, i think it would be great if we could do something simliar. Technorati would be useful if you wanted more people to read your blog and i guess it would encourage you to tag your blog more (somthing i keep forgetting to do).

Hopefully the licence 2 test drive information will stay up for awhle so that i can go back and refresh my memory about some of the sites that we have looked at over the last few weeks. As unless you take the time and effort to immerse yourself in the web 2.0 world it is easy to forget that all this wonderful stuff is out there. That's why we need to start integrating it into our everyday work lives.

Week #6 delicious

Delicious looks like a great site to share websites in an organised manner (just how we Librarians like it). A one stop location great for reference links as we have seen with Gavin from Noosa library putting up their ref desk links for everyone. It's also fantastic that you can be updated on new links on similiar topics.

I will have to explore further on other subjects before i can comment some more.

Week #5 rss feeds

This week i've quickly been looking at RSS feeds week 5. I added the following feeds: librarian.net, resourceshelf, the shifted librarian, slq license 2 test drive. Its always good to see what other people are up to in an area that interests you,without it clogging up your inbox. Some of the feeds i looked at seem to be from patrons and the information wasn't reall useful.

It gave me an insight into what some of our patrons are using and it this knowledge will hopefully make it easier for me to answer their questions. In my secondment position i will needs a much more in depth look at rss feeds to truly understand all their benefits. So i'm glad i've started and i can keep going back to bloglines to keep current with what is happening. It's also a good place to view others ideas to see what has worked in terms of public programs in web 2.0 etc.

Perhaps in the workplace it would be beneficial to have different staff members with different feeds relevant to our tasks but still useful to others and then we could share some of the information via e-mail or at staff meetings.

It seems that it might take a while to set up the feeds in all your subject areas but once set up the information just comes straight to you saving you the ongoing searching.