Wiki's

I'm pretty sure everyone knows about Wikipedia...the usefulness and dangers of it. The idea of a wiki, something anyone can add too without having to know how to write code, is a fantastic idea...in theory. As one of the tutorials said, "If you're a control freak, wiki's might not be for you." And I feel that I may slightly fall into that category. The idea of anyone being able to add what they want is a little frightening to me. I'm not sure if they have ways where you can decide who becomes a member to be able to post, I really don't know the logistics of setting a wiki up. But I can also see the usefulness of these. Collaborating on a specific subject with other people that hold that same interest can really be a great resource. I feel that this would be a great way to set up reader's advisory lists, by actually letting the customers add the books that they enjoyed to a specific genre list.

Learning/Web 2.0

Wow, I haven't posted in a while...shame on me. Well I'm on # 15 and I will now write my response to the articles I read pertaining to learning 2.0/web 2.0. Reading these articles reminded me of just how much we do rely on this technology now to aid us in our jobs. I feel that it is important to keep the library "human" as one of the articles said, because that is one of the reasons libraries have been around so long. It is a place people can come to to interact, learn, enjoy a storytime and talk about books. Learning 2.0 will let us serve our customers in many new ways, but we must keep the human side to it.

Thing #14

Technorati...basically a search engine for blogs. I can see that if you are really interested in blogs this could be a useful tool...but I'm not. You can search through keyword or tags, which are subjects people attach to their blogs. It's interesting to explore the most popular searches tool because you can start reading about topics you would have never thought of looking up.

Delicious

So I have finally learned about Delicious. I really had no idea what it was before that tutorial. It's kind of like bloglines...but for websites instead of blogs. (I think). Anyway, I can see how that would be useful to access on any computer.

strange

I just saw that I am a follower of my own blog...that is strange. I don't know how that happened!

Rollyo

My Rollyo search is all about finding recipes; something I do a lot online. I added four websites I use a lot. I feel that this could come in handy when you are searching a specific subject/field in depth or that you need multiple sources for a specific subject. The link to my Rollyo is: http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=cheesecake&sid=515075

Librarything

I started my librarything account about a year ago and never really used it. I found www.goodreads.com and liked their format a lot more. But I added five books to my librarything account and here's the link: http://www.librarything.com/profile/cam_1986