#19 Omeo and Facebook

I have been using Facebook for the past couple of months, thanks to a Canadian friend I have. She has over 30 friends, and some of her friends in Canada have over 300 friends. It does make me look like a sad sack to admit I only have 5 friends....on Facebook. I communicate with other friends in other ways, mainly messenger or email or even the post (though not very often). I have found facebook to be easy to navigate and apart from the double up of emails going to my email account to tell me there is something on Facebook, I really like it. I think all the negative things I have read in the news about Facebook are not the norm for me, as I am too busy checking Bloglines.

The other new site I had a look at was Odeo (which shares millions of podcasts and MP3s with its audience) and found apart from remembering another ID and password that I listened to some great music and podcasts. The searching was good as were the topic choices. I will use this at home, but probably not at work, but still a good site to have gone to.

Zoho

There are so many new things that are being discovered as part of Learning 2.0. I must say that I think Zoho will have practical applications.

As I type this post, I am also watching "the Librarians" on the TV, hope it lives up us. Or maybe do we have to have a better standard than it. "The book is your canvas and the mind is your brush." The are so many things on the internet that I still have to learn that I think my mind is certainly not a brush. Photo from The Librarian

Sometimes the picture is clear and then at other times it is more of an impression. Hopefully more clear than not. It just takes a lot of time remembering all the different log in passwords and website addresses. But the journey has been enjoyable and yet there are points at which I want to bang my head or crash the computer on purpose.

Anyway back to the topic at hand, I hope I have discovered enough about Zoho to post this to my blog....lets find out.

#17 & 18 Playing in the sandpit

This cartoon sums it up, I felt like I was back in Playgroup. Had to ring a colleague to get the blog to post like his (thanks) and then had to think of what favourite I had - must be a boring person because it took awhile to decide. Ended up with fav vacation, which if anyone has met me, was of course Disney, and why wouldn't it be.

and then more from Zoho ....hopefully

#16 Wiki

Wiki's are something that I have accessed heaps of times. When there is information that I am looking for about people, bands etc I check wikipedia as well as some other places. I would hope that the Library could look at setting up a wiki like the booklovers one. It would be an easy introduction for staff and patrons. I really like the idea of the subject guide wiki as well. It does concern me that inaccurate information can be looked at by unsuspecting internet users as real, but then as with all information, checking the facts is part of the response. Now it is late and I am tired, but happy to be back blogging (scary) and to be still on the path of a lifelong learning journey.

#15 What is 2.0 and are we learning?

Not quite an Iceberg, but this is more how I feel about Learning 2.0. Sometimes on firm ground (learning about Blogs, Bloglines and RSS feeds) and other times washed down the river (tagging and flickr). There is so much that can change in the Library field that for those who do not like change it is a major problem. Not sure if that is me all the time, but certainly every now and again.

Now to the readings about Learning 2.0. I found myself nodding while reading the article titled "Away from Icebergs". It is a fine line between holding onto the past (with a tightly clenched fist) and changing the system every time the world changes (very unsettling and destabilizing) When I read "Into a new world of librarianship" I would like for the Librarian 2.0 to be part of the Goulburn Valley Regional Library look, but truthfully I cannot see that this will happen.

#13 & 14 Tagg your Technorati

This is a photo of my cousins daughter - on her birthday. The day out way wonderful. A day of technology with digital video cameras, phone cameras and digital cameras, we do like to take a photo or two, must add some to Flickr.
But today it is time to talk about is a Del.icio.us and dis.cove.ring way to have bookmarks. I will probably not use this site again, unless my way of operating changes. I can see the practical usefulness of it to those using multiple computers, but I usually only access 2, home and work, and are mostly happy to have very different pages bookmarked at each.

However I do think that I will use Technorati. I was surprised at the difference that the blog/tag/blog directory searches had. It is a tool that I have found to be already a link on many of the blogs and pages I am now searching on, and I just don't think I ever saw the icons before. But now that I know what they mean I see them, just like the RSS feeds.

#11 & 12 Library Thing and Rollyo - who can guess what I'm talking about

Library Thing is really good and being able to add the widget (hopefully) with such ease is also amazing. My catalogue only teenage fiction at this stage. There are other books I could add, and probably will at a later time, but as usual time is the key factor. And there is never enough of it.

Rollyo is another cool tool which I think I will be using after this. The ability to make your own search engine to be limited just to web addresses you want to search is brilliant. Which I had thought of it.