Week 1 (February 9, 2009) — Introduction
Week 2 (February 16, 2009) — Blogs
Week 3 (February 23, 2009) — Tagging and del.icio.us
Week 4 (March 2, 2009) — RSS & Newsreaders
Week 5 (March 9, 2009) — Wikis
Week 6 (March 16, 2009) — Photos & Images
Week 7 (March 23, 2009) — Online Applications & Tools
Week 8 (March 30, 2009) — Podcasts & Videos
Week 9 (April 6, 2009) — Library 2.0
Week 10 (April 13, 2009) — Wrap-up
Instructors: Sharon Dennis, Rebecca Brown and Susan Robert
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
What is Library 2.0 ?
My initial thoughts were quite random and then I found We Know What Library 2.0 Is and Is Not and realized that this post expressed many of the ideas I was having including:
"...the discussion of Library 2.0 has been focused on little things we can do to better serve our users... implementing IM reference and creating a presence on social networks ... we have to be careful to not flood ourselves with new projects until we have a clear understanding of what it is we’re trying to do and where we want to go ... and that means first figuring out what our users want and need...
Library 2.0 is:
...providing our users with access to information. Library 2.0 strives to reach this goal in part through customer-driven services."
I also found What is Library 2.0 interesting. It's also posted on slideshare.
"...the discussion of Library 2.0 has been focused on little things we can do to better serve our users... implementing IM reference and creating a presence on social networks ... we have to be careful to not flood ourselves with new projects until we have a clear understanding of what it is we’re trying to do and where we want to go ... and that means first figuring out what our users want and need...
Library 2.0 is:
user-centric
constant change and evaluation
not just about technology
political
...providing our users with access to information. Library 2.0 strives to reach this goal in part through customer-driven services."
I also found What is Library 2.0 interesting. It's also posted on slideshare.
Monday, March 30, 2009
YouTube ... 4 Favorites ...+ YouTube features
More than 1-2 favs. Hope you enjoy them, especially if you've not seen them.
Smart Crows and Ravens
Smart Crows and Ravens use a pedestrian crossing to crack nuts open
YOU'RE GROUNDED 'TILL YOU'RE 36!!! Sung by (apparently): Anita Renfroe
There are other Mom Songs on YouTube; the previous is my favorite, as well as, a Mom Song Kid's Response to William Tell's Overture with Lyrics
Patches the Coolest Horse
Horse riding in car....
YouTube Features that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites:
-Videos being watches right now
-Quicklist bar
Smart Crows and Ravens
Smart Crows and Ravens use a pedestrian crossing to crack nuts open
YOU'RE GROUNDED 'TILL YOU'RE 36!!! Sung by (apparently): Anita Renfroe
There are other Mom Songs on YouTube; the previous is my favorite, as well as, a Mom Song Kid's Response to William Tell's Overture with Lyrics
Patches the Coolest Horse
Horse riding in car....
YouTube Features that might be interesting if they were applied to library websites:
-Videos being watches right now
-Quicklist bar
Friday, March 27, 2009
Online Productivity Tools
Snipshot the web-based photo editing tool seemed great -- $3 for 2 weeks (good for vacations or meetings) or $9/month - the sample dog image was easy to manipulate.
30 Boxes, the free web-based calendar was easy to setup and use - able to incorporate weather into calendar too! I am still wondering how it interfaces with Groupwise or my Blackberry.
Basecamp, a project management and task software tool, was outstanding. Imagine being able to control calendars, tasks, tracking, etc. online. Cost was a DRAWBACK. The lowest subscription was Basic for $24/month for small groups. I quickly realized that I was wowed by the features, but that I wanted a 'personal' management tool like Basecamp, rather than a project management tool.
30 Boxes, the free web-based calendar was easy to setup and use - able to incorporate weather into calendar too! I am still wondering how it interfaces with Groupwise or my Blackberry.
Basecamp, a project management and task software tool, was outstanding. Imagine being able to control calendars, tasks, tracking, etc. online. Cost was a DRAWBACK. The lowest subscription was Basic for $24/month for small groups. I quickly realized that I was wowed by the features, but that I wanted a 'personal' management tool like Basecamp, rather than a project management tool.
Zoho Writer - Saving & Posting
Zoho Writer - Untitled post - editing
My original message was untitled (I signed into blogger using gmail account) and used 'New Post' > 'Post' tab > 'Edit' to give my original untitled post a title.
When you click 'Share' it warns you you have not saved it, so I saved it as Zoho Writer - Saving... and am retrying the 'Post to Blog'
Zoho Writer has a 'Get my Blogs' window and window with a 'Post as Draft' or 'Publish' option. I will try the 'Post as Draft' option.
When I logged into Blogger I found the draft. The file title had became my blog title. Next I 'Publish Post'
My original message was untitled (I signed into blogger using gmail account) and used 'New Post' > 'Post' tab > 'Edit' to give my original untitled post a title.
When you click 'Share' it warns you you have not saved it, so I saved it as Zoho Writer - Saving... and am retrying the 'Post to Blog'
Zoho Writer has a 'Get my Blogs' window and window with a 'Post as Draft' or 'Publish' option. I will try the 'Post as Draft' option.
When I logged into Blogger I found the draft. The file title had became my blog title. Next I 'Publish Post'
Zoho Writer - Posting to my blog
I signed up for Zoho Writer just a few minutes ago. When you confirm via email, I immediately got a Welcome to Zoho Writer message in Zoho. Of course, I wanted to print the Welcome :<), but instead I just scrolled and found the
Post to Your Blog
Being on the web, you can post to your blog from within Zoho Writer.
I found it under the 'Share' tab.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
del.icio.us - sending to another del.icio.us account
From the Social Bookmarking Bibliography PDF, I went to Brown, Rebecca’s Social Bookmarking presentation:
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p21582217/
Rebecca demonstrated how in the tags one can type
for: [name_of_del.icio.us_account]
and it will send it to the specified del.icio.us account
https://webmeeting.nih.gov/p21582217/
Rebecca demonstrated how in the tags one can type
for: [name_of_del.icio.us_account]
and it will send it to the specified del.icio.us account
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