Well here I am at the end of another Web 2.0 tutorial and pondering the great mysteries that are still out there in the wonderful world of cyberspace!!!
This time I have to say I really did enjoy most of the activities that we had to do. All except the RSS week which took me a bit longer to complete. Otherwise I have to say I liked this tutorial. I don't think I could pinpoint a favourite but I did like Tastespotting a bit more than the others!! As always the matter of time spent on this and the time at hand had to carefully weighed out and balanced.
I must say I felt more relaxed with the activities and sites we had to explore this time because we had already looked at similar things before. I really did enjoy learning new things and sharing what I learned with my colleagues.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Week 6 - EnCompassCulture - the global bookclub
Two weeks later i finally managed to get some time to have a look at the rest of my WEb 2.0. EnCompassCulture seems to be quite interesting and exciting!! I went and did the search for the Humourous Travel books and found some pretty cool stuff there. Then I went and did some more searches of my own. The children's section was quite enlightening and so was the teenagers section. This seems to be one of those sites that have people like me in mind, book lovers!!
I think this maybe very useful to those customers who come and ask us, "Please do you have a book for my 8-year old who only likes adventure books?". This would be the ideal site to guide them to. Library staff who want to help customers find alternate titles or genres for customers would also benefit hugely from this. Not only would staff be able to point out good reads but recommend if they want to join the site and submit reviews, take part in online reading groups and chat amongst like minded literary enthusiasts. I would definitely try to promote this to those who are as excited about books and reading like me!!
I think this maybe very useful to those customers who come and ask us, "Please do you have a book for my 8-year old who only likes adventure books?". This would be the ideal site to guide them to. Library staff who want to help customers find alternate titles or genres for customers would also benefit hugely from this. Not only would staff be able to point out good reads but recommend if they want to join the site and submit reviews, take part in online reading groups and chat amongst like minded literary enthusiasts. I would definitely try to promote this to those who are as excited about books and reading like me!!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Week 5 - SlideShare
Another week gone by. So I sat down and had a look at SlideShare, not a thorough look but just went in and searched for a few things. It was interesting the amount of online presentations that are out there. It makes me think that this world is getting smaller and people are finding new ways to sharing ideas and products online!
SlideShare should be relatively easy for staff to use if they have access to the right computer. We would find all sorts of stuff to up skill ourselves and keep informed of what is out there. the customer, I'm not exactly sure how it would benefit them. I suppose a professional who is after something specific and requires an online presentation as a resource might find this helpful. Maybe it's because I didn't get an in depth look at the site that I think this way!! I would definitely have another look, preferably on a computer which is a bit faster!!
I'm not sure I will promote this to customers because I'm not exactly sure who would gain from it. However, if someone does ask questions about it I would be only too happy to help. Me, I'll be having a better look later and posting about that experience later.
SlideShare should be relatively easy for staff to use if they have access to the right computer. We would find all sorts of stuff to up skill ourselves and keep informed of what is out there. the customer, I'm not exactly sure how it would benefit them. I suppose a professional who is after something specific and requires an online presentation as a resource might find this helpful. Maybe it's because I didn't get an in depth look at the site that I think this way!! I would definitely have another look, preferably on a computer which is a bit faster!!
I'm not sure I will promote this to customers because I'm not exactly sure who would gain from it. However, if someone does ask questions about it I would be only too happy to help. Me, I'll be having a better look later and posting about that experience later.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Week 4 - TasteSpotting
So I went in and joined with TasteSpotting and what an amazing feast of recipes greeted me!!! It was like I'd died and gone to food heaven!!
This site looks so cool and fun, it made my mouth water at all the lovely pictures and I felt very hungry!!!
After trawling through the site for a whole 5 minutes without running off for my lunch, I found a great looking rice dish. It was Nasi Goreng Indonesian Fried Rice with Chicken Satay. I chose this particular one because I had actually eaten this a very long time ago at my Indonesian friend's house for lunch and I wanted to check out the recipe!!
This site is by far the easiest to navigate and mouth-watering to look at. I would keep on using it to get ideas for recipes and amaze my family and friends. This task is the most exciting one to date, no offense!! All those awesome recipes at my fingertips just blew me away. I don't think all the web 2.0 activities should be related to libraries. It's good that we have a variety of sites to check out because every one's interests differ, especially the customers!!
I personally enjoyed the selection of recipes and looking at all the awesome photos of gorgeous looking dishes!!
This site looks so cool and fun, it made my mouth water at all the lovely pictures and I felt very hungry!!!
After trawling through the site for a whole 5 minutes without running off for my lunch, I found a great looking rice dish. It was Nasi Goreng Indonesian Fried Rice with Chicken Satay. I chose this particular one because I had actually eaten this a very long time ago at my Indonesian friend's house for lunch and I wanted to check out the recipe!!
This site is by far the easiest to navigate and mouth-watering to look at. I would keep on using it to get ideas for recipes and amaze my family and friends. This task is the most exciting one to date, no offense!! All those awesome recipes at my fingertips just blew me away. I don't think all the web 2.0 activities should be related to libraries. It's good that we have a variety of sites to check out because every one's interests differ, especially the customers!!
I personally enjoyed the selection of recipes and looking at all the awesome photos of gorgeous looking dishes!!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Week 3 - FeedMyInbox
Another week's worth of Web 2.0 completed, hopefully on time!!
FeedMyInbox seems to be an interesting site. I was unable to watch the short video on how to actually navigate my way round the site so I had to ask my colleagues for some help, but I soon got the hang of it.
It's not that bad and I would rate it reasonable easy. If customers were interested in such a service they could find it somewhat simple to use. I guess it's up to the individual person to want to use it so I can't see how useful it would be in the workroom. I mean, not everyone wants updates on things all the time.
I personally do intend to use this again. I hope I can find that long forgotten webiste I was on last month on a random search so I can add it.
As for promoting it to customers, well, if someone came up to me and asked for such a service I would definitely recommend it to them and promote it to those younger customers.
FeedMyInbox seems to be an interesting site. I was unable to watch the short video on how to actually navigate my way round the site so I had to ask my colleagues for some help, but I soon got the hang of it.
It's not that bad and I would rate it reasonable easy. If customers were interested in such a service they could find it somewhat simple to use. I guess it's up to the individual person to want to use it so I can't see how useful it would be in the workroom. I mean, not everyone wants updates on things all the time.
I personally do intend to use this again. I hope I can find that long forgotten webiste I was on last month on a random search so I can add it.
As for promoting it to customers, well, if someone came up to me and asked for such a service I would definitely recommend it to them and promote it to those younger customers.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Week 2 - Picapp
This is my chosen image from Picapp. I thought it looked so serene and peaceful which is so unlike my mind at the moment!!
Picapp looks like an interesting site and is quite straightforward to use. I'm not exactly sure if it would be useful to a library website but I can see how it might be useful to customers who are looking for images to enhance an assignment or presentation. I might go back and do a bit more in depth searching on this site when time is more easy to find!
I would promote this to customers if they ask for help in finding images like the ones we find here.
Round 2 - Here we are again - Box.net
Here I am again, Round 2!! Well, I finally managed to get on to it and complete the Box.net tasks. All I can say is, wow, why I have I not heard about this before! It seems like an ingenious site.
I can see the possibilities of using this in the workplace and sharing information that would be useful to everyone. Personally, I do see the advantages of using this site with people I want to share files and such with. It was reasonably easy to use and navigate around. Uploading files to Box.net wasn't that hard. I didn't try sharing anything with anyone because, to be honest, the files I uploaded weren't stuff I wanted to share. I might share some files later on.
I believe that customers would find this quite easy and useful to store their files if they didn't have anything like a USB with them. I think I would promote this to customers because I think they would gain a lot from it.
I can see the possibilities of using this in the workplace and sharing information that would be useful to everyone. Personally, I do see the advantages of using this site with people I want to share files and such with. It was reasonably easy to use and navigate around. Uploading files to Box.net wasn't that hard. I didn't try sharing anything with anyone because, to be honest, the files I uploaded weren't stuff I wanted to share. I might share some files later on.
I believe that customers would find this quite easy and useful to store their files if they didn't have anything like a USB with them. I think I would promote this to customers because I think they would gain a lot from it.
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