Video's online

I think we could definately use online videos in our Library. Firstly we could promote our Library through video's with what services we provide, we could also use online video for book reviews. We have just built a new Library we could have used online video to keep the community up to date with how the Library was progressing in the stages it was built. I like the idea of training via online video, especially if the Library has many branches!!!!!!

More Google.

I did not know about the "Google translate", I had a customer come ion one day with a medicine precaution paper and he wanted to know if I could find him a copy in English not Japanese. I was unable to as all the searches I did only located the same precaution papers as he had in Japanese. If I had of know of about this tool I could have got him the information he needed. Another time we could have used this tool was when a client was receiving letters from a French lady, she had a person who could translate and write letters in French, but this friend moved and she was trying to find someone else who could help her out. At this time I did not know about this tool or it may not of been established yet, it would have been perfect for her to read and write letters to her pen pale overseas.

The Google calendar could be used within our Library for the staff to keep up to date with what is happening between the two branches. We could have one calendar that all staff have to ability to add and view. We could also allow external clients to view our calendar therefore they could see our upcoming events and if they were interested in them contact us regarding them.

WEB BROWSERS!!!!!!!!!

Tried watching the video on firefox, but it wouldn't let me : ( I have used google chrome before and the layout of this web browser is very plan and easy to get around. We use Internet explorer at work and I was unable download the video on Firfox, so I downloaded FireFox and was really impressed with the speed of the download. When you look at the internet explorers and compare them, Firefox has a lot more to offer there are plenty of features there on the page where as google does not have many listed on the page. I think from this little exercise I will be changing my web browser to Firefox.

Ive downloaded firefox to one of the work computers and I'm very impressed with speed of the browser along with the layout and functions available. Also when I downloaded the new browser it asked if I wanted to take all history and passwords from the Internet explorer which was awesome because I didn't have to manually save it all to firefox myself it did it by itself. Think this is going to be my new browser at home.

Podcasts!!!!

I LOVE the triple J podcast page!!!! Love my music so this grabbed my attention straight away. They offer a podcast that sends you a selection of music that you choose every week!!! You can have these songs downloaded into ITUNES so very handy for someone with an IPOD. You can get the latest music downloaded weekly through triple J's podcast and send it straight to your ipod, which would save you lots of money in the long run!!!! And with downloading your music from Triple J you know your getting good quality music, and not some dodgy files.

Mashups

I like the real estate mashup, great to be able to see a picture of the house plus where abouts in the area it is located. Is a very different way of buying and selling real estate, opens up to whole new range of potential clients as well. Wasn't impressed with the Twitter ones as I'm not a big fan of twitter at all. Very Impressed with he real estate though.

Online applications and tools

Google doc's would come in handy for our Library as we have two branches. Instead of sending multiple copies of emails with the same document, we could use the google docs and let all staff have access, that way all staff members can add there own to the document and its up to date as soon as they save. This way all staff will see the current version of the documents. I think I could use this with my co worker on the magazines as the purchasing of new magazines happens in the Gatton branch. For example if Gatton was to subscribe to a new magazine they could add that magazine to the list on Google doc's and I would know straight away, and this could be done vice verse.

Folksonomies & Tagging

http://delicious.com/TishTash

Okay wow, I really like this site!!!! I have created my own for Holidays now all the great sites that I check out for special deals are just one click away for me. It would be excellent to have all our websites that we search through to find information on books or serials in this for work. This site would be very useful to a wide range of business’s not just the Library industry. Thumbs up all round for this site from me.

Never used Technorati or heard of this site before, but was interesting. I see that this site is a good way to get your blog out there, this would be a great tool for businesses so that they get it out to the people they need to! When searching for "bookmobile" I got the same results for the normal search and the advanced search. I had a couple of goes, but still the same, will have to have a little more of a play with this site I think.

http://www.librarything.com/profile/Tish_tash
Library Thing another good website, out of the three that we have looked at I would say 1. delicious 2. Library thing and 3. Technorati. Library thing is great way to gather all books you have read and add reviews and share with other people as well. This site would help with finding other authors that write similar.

RSS feeds addictive

I love the fact that everything you ae interesting in and what to know about is there ready to go on the one site and you dont have to search and search for the information! Makes alot more time effective and you find the information that you want and need, with just one click.

I choose stacks of sites for my rss, all the topics I like from Shopping, music to movies and a stack more! I can now go to the movies feed and click on rotten tomatoes and it takes me straight to there web page and I can read the review straight away no searching involved.

I could use this for work to put all work related websites in the one area and have them all just a click away. I work with the serial subscriptions so I could get all the magazine companies in the one rss and be able to compare prices in one go and not have to jump back anf fourth from website to website.

I think all Libraries could use, and could be as indvidual for every worker, for example in our Library one staff member could use this for story time subjects, another for inter library loans assitance. It would save the workers time in searching for the appropriate information as they can have all relevant websites together in one rss feed.

Social Networks

Social networks are great tool for personal use or for business. I have my own profile on Facebook and have found it a great tool to get in contact with friends and family no matter how far away they live.

Our Library could use any one of the social networks on the internet to encourage participation in upcoming events that the library will be holding. By getting users who use these networks to be come apart of our Libraries network we could send emails, or they could view upcoming events the Library would be holding. After the events have been held we could publish how effective the even was and ask the clients who all attended to give there in put.

Was good to see how the National Library New Zealand is using Twitter to share with there clients and other businesses what going on in there Library. They can share posts and let there followers know without sending emails or anything, when they log in next time they will see there post and they will know what’s going on. They can also add links to there posts for there clients to follow and check. I think its great idea to get across to there followers by using a social network.

Wikis Wikis everywhere

Our Library has there own wiki set up on wetpaint. It has been very useful for our Library as we have two different branches, it makes it easier to share comments and thoughts on upcoming events. We also keep our procedures on the wiki so it's easy to access these if anyone requires them. We do our stationary orders as well via the wiki, being two different branches it is hard to keep in contact with things like this, so If the Gatton branch is running low on some stationary supplies they just jump on the wiki and add it to the list for the next order. It's very useful for our Library and I think all larger Libraries would find wikis useful for their Library. It was another way of getting to know fellow work colleagues as every worker has there own profile and you can learn a little bit more about everyone on the wiki as well, this helped when the council amalgamations happened as the two Libraries joined and we could connect with one another via the wiki.

Flickr has River

http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-grrrlie/2103459661/

The above link will take you to my favourite photo on "Flickr". It is a photo of River Phoenix and a beautiful background in it. Have a look at it and you will see what I am talking about. The longer you look at the photo the more you see in it. It is an amazing picture!

I really enjoyed using Flickr, searching for this photo, I found many others that I really liked. I think this site is a great idea to back up your own photo's and the fact that you can allow other people to view you photo's it is a good way showing family friends who may not live near you all your happy snaps.

Lets get the ball rolling

Day one of getting my L plates, I couldn't watch the YouTube video so how is the rest of this going to go. This will be an interesting learning experience and we are going to allocate 1hr a fortnight to play.

I haven't had much to do with blogging so this will be a great learning experience for myself. I think it is a great idea to learn about all of the new sites on the Internet that people are using, this keeps us in touch with what our clients are using. Life long learning is an essential practise in a Library. We are here to help and deliver information to our customers and if we don't know what is out there to offer to our clients, than what good are we?