Week 7 Wikis

This week I looked at Wikis. I had been using Wikipedia quite a lot but I had never known that anyone could add information to or edit it! There must be some rules to follow if you wanted to add new facts because it was a encyclopedia and people trusted encyclopedias. I always found Wikipedia very useful. Also I thought Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki was useful for libraries. It provided a place for all the librarians in the world to share ideas and information. If we needed some fresh idea maybe we could get it from here.

Week 6 Library 2.0

This week I also read the perspectives on Library 2.0. I could see our libraries still play an important role in the community in the future because we kept up with new technologies which meant we kept up with our customers. This web 2.0 learning was a great way for me to learn some new technologies in order to serve our customers better.

Week 6 Technorati

This week I also created a Technorati account and looked around. Tried a keyword search for "Learning 2.0" in blog posts and came up 1 blog, in Blog Directory but no luck. Tried to claim my blog and I had to include this code "UJK22RXZFPX4" to my blog and publish it. Once I published, I should use the "Verify Claim Token" button to have my blog be verified. So now I will publish this blog and see.

Week 6 Del.icio.us

This week I created a Delicious account for myself. I found Delicious very useful since I worked as a part time Library Assistant and I didn't have my own computer in work place. Now all I needed to do was logging on my Delicious account on any available computer and I would have my bookmarks! Also I thought this website would be a great way to share information between libraries. Imaging if ACL had one account and all the valuable bookmarks were there, wouldn't that be convenient?

Week5 Rollyo

This week I also tried to use Rollyo, but a message came up saying Rollyo was undergoing some maintenance. I didn't want to stuck here, so I would carry on my Week 6 and try it later on.
Tried Rollyo again on Mar. 5, now it worked. I created an account for myself and created a search roll for "Favourite Kids Books". Then I followed the instruction from #12 and added searchroll to my blog, also added my LT Search Box and a display of my LT books to the side of my blog. My blog looked much better now (I think). For Rollyo, I wouldn't use it much because I preferred Delicious.

Week 5 LibraryThing

This week I explored LibraryThing and created my own LibraryThing account. This website was cool. I could use it to record my readings, like what I had read, what I wanted to read in the future, etc. Also this website provided a great platform for book lovers to interact with each other. I would highly recommend this website to my friends who couldn't live without books.

Week 4 RSS

I setup my googlereader, but for some reason I could only get to "logging in" page instead of my account. So now I setup a bloglines account and it seemed working. Hooray!