Friday, March 26, 2010

#7 Wiki's

Wiki's have the most potential of any of the 2.0 applications I have seen this far. The organizing, sharing and coordinating information is so fabulous, we may not have meetings in the future???
Why bother if we are doing a better job of sharing information in a Wiki!
The only concern I have is sabotage. Remember when we used to hear about someone messing with Wikipedia? The information we use, needs to be verifiable and based on fact.
I had fun leaving messages in our Favorite things Wiki. Let's continue with that.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

#6 Social Bookmarking

15 Billion Web Pages! Wow, no wonder we all feel unorganized. Let's see now, Delicious can organize them, then sort by tags (old school =LC/Sears subject headings). The we can all share sites that have been discovered by others with the same interests. I am feeling a little job insecurity here!

Away from the Icebergs and A tempory place in time.....

(What ever floats your boat etc.)
At a Librarians workshop 15 years ago, the speaker said we HAVE to become more user friendly or be blown out of the water! (I wish I could remember his name.) It's all about packaging and now, no training necessary.
The time of a new mindset and expectations is here. The old concept of a traditional Library has faded into the sunset or sunk to the bottom of the sea in this story.
I liked the idea of harnessing users in the design and implementation of services. Smooth talkin', and practical.
Library 4D is mind boggling. The Garden of Eden of Libraries??? I think not! Technology is ever changing, so will be user needs. A knowledge spa, meditation, and relaxation, bring it on!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

HEB23: Web 2.0, Part 4 & 5

4. Here are some sites that I like to look at every day and put them my RSS feed. Am I a sports fan or what! Also being from Oklahoma, we keep our eyes on the weather cause you never know if it's going to be 90+ or 9!

http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-footbl/okst-m-footbl-body.html
http://www.blackwelljournaltribune.net/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/
http://www.newsok.com/
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/Bedford+TX+76021

Let me say that I really liked doing the online images. I can see my creative "evil twin" at work at;
http://www.signgenerator.org/
http://www.funtasticface.com/
Made some funny get well cards on these sites.

Library thing is going to be a cool tool when I retire. I like the fact that it has free reviews & recomendations. Free books to if you want to write reviews.
Rollyo is always closed for maintenance, so I took a look at one of their other sites, Tweetage W@steland. This guy is pretty funny. I read his blog Confession #43. He is a really good writer and has way to much time!
As for the reply to other blogs. I pray that many of you got my Hi there have a good Spring Break!