Emotion B.6.28

"Discover Youtube." Go ahead, twist my arm, make me use youtube. Towards the bottom of the blog, you should see the embedded youtube that has on the blog from day one. Youtube is a great way to keep up with music and comedy. And not just current stuff, either.

I have also seen useful and educational youtube content regarding library issues such as Web 2.0. Author interviews would be great links for a library website.

Now, if you don't want to get a dachshund after viewing the attached video, well, then you're just not human.

Emotion A.6.24.b

Whew! Times are tough. The Palm Beach County Library System implemented its Business Reference Service back in the late 1980's/early 1990's during the last blip in the economy. At the time, we were assisting patrons with job searches, starting small businesses, finding training programs. Now there are Web 2.0 tools like CareerBuilder to find job postings, post resumes, sign up for job alerts based on pre-selected criteria. Add free tools like this to subscription databases such as our Small Business Resource Center, and the assistance that we can provide to our patrons is leaps and bounds above what we were able to offer a mere 15 years ago. Not to mention that you can search for library jobs on CareerBuilder as well!

(Not that I'm looking or anything, you understand)

Emotion B.6.24.d.zoho

It took me a few years, and then I felt pretty comfortable with Word Perfect.  Then we started using Word and after a few years I'm feeling pretty comfortable with that.  Not as comfortable as I was with Word Perfect, mind you, but not bad.  Now here's Zoho Writer.  Give me a few years, and I'll get back to you.... 

 

I took to the Zoho presentation software right away.  That seemed more "like" Powerpoint.

(See Below....)

Emotion B.6.24.c

Emotion A.6.24.b

pbclswiki- I enjoyed sharing information about favorite wines with fellow staffmembers. I'm considering pairing the Mad Dog 20/20 with cheeto encrusted ball park franks at my next fête. (Oh, according to wikipedia, Fête is a French word meaning festival or holiday, which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events. ) For dessert, I think a Pepto Bismol mousse with an aspirin gratine' would not be untoward.

The opportunity for humor in social networking is positively dangerous....

Emotion B.6.24

I've checked out a few wikis IRL- who hasn't stumbled across Wikipedia and found it useful? I hate stumbling across things, though, so clumsy that way. And what about those Wiki Watchee mermaids- a true Florida institition.

Have visited the ALA Wiki in preparation for attending ALA this year. Very handy. SEFLIN has started utilizing wikis for its annual conferences as well.

I found the University of Huddersfield's Library Service's Electronic Resources Wiki. Having just monitored a lengthy discussion on libref-l regarding "what do you call those databases on your website, anyway?" it was interesting to see what can be done regarding the library's databases, using a wiki. A way to provide links, explanations, instructions, etc. Hey, whatever it takes to lead the patrons to our expensive and probably underutilized databases, the better. Gotta compete with wikipedia after all.

Emotion A.7.3.1

The Wiki entry says: The key principles of Library 2.0 are not just about access to books and information. It is about innovation, about people, and about community building, enabled through the participation that social computing brings. It achieves this through trust and encouraging users to share ideas through writing, rating, and commenting against everything in the library's collection. It even makes the collection open to developers to use, re-use and improve!

What does Web 2.0 mean to me? A way to stay in touch with my kid. A way to discuss common interests with complete strangers in cyberspace- including frequent and painful flaming you'd never see in real life. A way to shop. Entertainment. Infotainment. A way to interact with patrons and allow patrons to interact with me online, hopefully without flaming. It's a dog eat dog world out there!

Emotion A.7.3

Well, I learned that the 4th most popular search term in Technorati is "budak jolai" which is apparently some kind of Malaysian sex tape. Obama was number 9 and Nick Lachey was number 11. I don't know what this says about the blogosphere, but somehow it doesn't sound good. I mean, Nick Lachey is so three years ago!

Tried to continue, but couldn't because "We're currently experiencing unusually high load and are working to resolve issues with the service as quickly as possible."

Search URL in technorati- I found 73 posts, including one that said "When I used the url seach feature I found 72 posts that link to www.pbclibrary.org."

Search tags- "38,960 posts tagged web 2.0"- Related tags:web-20, web2.0, ajax, technology, web, internet, tech, blogging, google, techcrunch

Technorati was so slow, I opted to not do the optional exercise.

Emotion B.2.0

Well, ain't that delicious....

Can you see the potential for research? Yes, I suppose I can see *potential* for research... Thought of that perrenial reference question- what are those trees out front with the yellow flowers? I looked for tags: yellow flower trees. Got 12 hits, none of them were the answer. Got ads to buy flowers and trees.

Set up my own account. Looked for tags regarding American Idol winner David Cook. Got ads for tour tickets and ring tones. Got a list of reasonable websites. How is this better than just goggling the guy?

Ho Hum.

As a way to quickly get to my own favorite sites no matter where I am, ok.

And something about the way they separate del.icio.us with the dots really bothers me, too. And what is up with the name delicious? What is delicious about it?