Week 6 - part 2.

The tag test worked, I'm shocked.
Anyway moving onto more Week 6 stuff, thanks to Katie's training I have already signed up to Del.icio.us and been madly adding sites to my favourites when ever there is a really good site in an email or on another blog.
Admittedly I haven't had time to go back and look at them properly, but at least with them stored in my Del.icio.us favourites I can access them whenever it suits.

After reading the info for "On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ... " I find the perspective of "To a temporary place in time..." to be very insightful and forward thinking.

Although Library 2.0 is the buzz at the moment we are often trying to catch up with library patrons that have already discovered and embraced this technology and have moved on looking for the next new technology that can be tried out, shared with friends and worked into every part of their lives.

Although we are learning a huge amount as part of 23 Things much of this is already out of date with what Internet savvy patrons are using or attempting to do. At the same time there are other library patrons that have also never heard of Web 2.0 technology and the skills we learn and develop will assist them.

Learning and embracing new technology should be a life long process for anyone working in the library industry to ensure that we have the most up to date information and information gathering skills to assist library patrons.

Week 6 of 23 Things

I thought that it was about time to get some more work done on the 23 Things, so this is a Week 6 post to test using a Technorati tag for CNRL.
I have copied the code from the Technorati site and changed the tagname to CNRL, so I guess now I complete the post and see if it worked.

Here goes.

[CNRL]

I'm still alive

I confess, I've been very bad, I have gone no further on the 23 Things at this stage. Week 6 will have to wait until things settle down a wee bit e.g get a new team leader, finish all the invoices, all the unimportant stuff (ha ha).
Christmas and Country Music are right around the corner and they will give us so much blogging material, aren't we all looking forward to that?? (I can't hear you cheering with excitement!)

23 Things - Week 5 - Part 3

As per instructions I have created my own Rollyo searchscroll called 23 Things http://www.rollyo.com/index.html
Once I created my search scroll and logged out I returned to the site as a member of the public.
I found that you had to go looking for the search scroll that I had just created, I haven't found a way to link directly to the scroll I created.
I think that generally it is a good idea once the scroll is created, but you have to either have the list of websites to start with or the time to search for the websites that you want to add to the search scroll.

Once created I thought the search the scroll performed was pretty good, but maybe that was just because I added appropriate websites - they do say garbage in - garbage out. I think in this case it was genius in - genius out!
(Stop Laughing)

That completes Week 5, I think the bit I liked best about this week was Library Thing, I could spend alot of time there if I don't control myself.

23 Things - Week 5 - Part 2

I have entered the domain of Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/catalog/marianb
As you will be able to see from my Library most of my current selections have a strong scifi, fantasy, horror leaning with an odd true crime included. Now if I listed every book I have in my bookshelves at home this is gonna be a really big list.

23 Things - Week 5 part 1

Hi Everyone

I have been playing with Image Generators - Week 5 of 23 Things

I found that a number of the generators that looked like a lot of fun were blocked by the IT policy - I'll have to try some of them out at home.

These are some of the images that I have created - links to the generator that I used for each one is next to/under the image.

http://www.doppelme.com/create/index.asp

23 Things is taking off into Outer Space

http://www.glassgiant.com/rocket/?l1=23+Things+or+Bust&size=large

Finally Marian's Blog has an official street sign

http://wigflip.com/easystreet/

Week 4 Continued............

I have had a play with all of the search tools listed for locating blog and new feeds.
I found the best one to use and get results from was Syndic8 - I used a search of "library" on all of the search sites - on Syndic8 I got relevant search results and was able to use the Bloglines icon to subscribe to some, this did not work on all of the results, some would not subscribe.
Feedster looked flash and hip but the search results were junk and had no relevance to my search.
Technorati produced results that were all based on the entertainment world, there was none of the sites that Syndic8 found in the first couple of screens.
Topix also produced irrelevant search results, most of the sites seemed to be geared for those seeking entertainment based results rather than work related or more useful results.

Oh well, we live and we learn.