Thing 16-Youtube just for the fun of it

Thing 15

Rollyo is a funny little thing. I don't know how we could use it at the library but I could see how a teacher might find it useful. I think I'm going to explore it a bit to see if there are any civil war sites I don't know about. There's my little red button up there. I actually put it there without help. I'm getting better at this stuff.

THING 14

I decided to use Igoogle because the lay out seemed a lot less busy and easy to see at a glance. I really like this because I can put up whatever I want and I'm not overrun with stuff like on bloglines. The gadgets are endless it seems, at least I didn't get through all the pages. I put up the weather and jokes and quotes from Confucius, NPR news and a moving hand showing the ASL alphabet. And google let me put up one for my Yahoo mail. Oh yeah and Youtube. I'll be using this page a lot at home. I made it my internet homepage. The calenders I don't think I'll use myself and yeah the to do lists are too much work. I'm not a manager or someone with big projects so I couldn't see myself using the project management things so I don't really have much to say about that. If you have an Iphone with Remember-the-milk you can put your to do list on your phone which I think is handy.

Thing 13- Library Thing and Update

Update: I decided to change this to just a button because I thought having some of my book titles floating around was just to messy looking.

Well I did get a Library Thing gadget up on my blog but it wasn't my own doing. I tried and tried but kept getting an error message when I tried editing my html like the Library Thing said. My co-worker the saved the day and now it's up there. What he did wasn't what was directed. He went to my blog's layout page and then 'add a gadget' and then scrolled to HTML/Javascript and pasted it into there. I guess. Anyway I really like this Library Thing thing. It's exactly what I need for myself and I think our patrons could really use it for their read-it-already lists. Some are very disappointed that we can't keep track of what they've brought back. I really liked the Library Thing for Libraries. I think our patrons would like to be able to add input into our catalog. Library Thing Local would be very good to replace our paper program guide and include other places around town that we don't know about.

Thing 12- Wiki

I liked this Wiki stuff even though I think it's a little weird to be able to go in and edit something when you may not know what you're talking about. But if you do, I think it's great. I really liked the Albany Library staff wiki and think we should have one for Circ at ACLD. I think it would be a quick way to update info and stay in touch with each other. Info gets emailed but then it's hard to find sometimes. I added an entry on the NEFLIN wiki and that was very easy. I can see why teachers would ban Wikipedia because if anyone can edit it then, what is fact?

Thing 11

I looked at the different social media news things and signed up for Digg. I looked at the others and liked this one the best. I found these news sites interesting in that you can add news you like and vote on the ones you like. BUT as I don't really have faith that all the news is all the truth (and this goes for TV, newspapers, etc) I'll take it all with a grain of salt. I don't know if our library would have any use for this type of thing. It seems to be a big waster of time and some of the articles were a bit hateful. I looked at Diggs tools and they have what's called the Diggwidget which allows you to display news on your site like this blog if I wanted to, which I don't. It seemed quite easy to do. I clicked on a news item under Stumbleupon that I wanted to email to someone and it asked me for my email address. When I put it in my whole contact list came up, even some contacts I have deleted from my list at home. I really liked how you can get these freaky news bits about all types of topics but I don't think I should get into this myself as I don't have the time. I mean I'd have to cut down on my Youtube time, you know?

Thing 10

I thought that this thing was very good. I really like the idea of being able to access my bookmarks anywhere and to share them and see what others have found. I think our library district would really benefit from having a Delicious account so all the librarians could share their finds and maybe have a place where patrons could also add their finds. I signed up with Delicious and marked a couple pages. It was all very easy. Then I looked at Furl and they claim "Say "goodbye" to Page Not Found messages and missing pages. When you Save a page with Furl, it's downloaded and saved to your own personal archive - for keeps. You can view your cached copy, at any time. Even if the source website has been down for years. Now that's archival goodness." How cool is this? I don't know how many times I've looked at old bookmarks to find the page gone. I think I'm going to go with Furl instead of Delicious. I also put some tags on my previous post which was very easy too.