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.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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.
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.
Monday, June 29, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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