Thursday, July 10, 2008

Thing 17 - Explore social networking

MySpace
I searched on "chisholm institute library" australia and found no hits ... very surprising!
I did like the easy search interface eg. Google, Videos, Music, & MySpace.
Very few libraris have a presence here, and those that do have statements pointing out that they take no responsiblity for any comments made on this site. This is more an individuals site that friends and collegues have access to and leave messages. You would need lots of spare time to hang around here, time I don't have!

Facebook
I seached for "Chisholm Institute Library" in Facebook and only found me!
Searched for " library" and discovered UCD Library Catalogue Search site which allowed you to insert a link Catalogue link into your own FaceBook page. I also discovered lots of silly time wasting sites like "Would You Have Sex In the Library?" & degrading sites like "Monash Library is a joke" overall you would have to have plenty of spare time to be pottering around in Facebook, it didn't do alot for me ...

Thing 16 - Investigate YouTube





The Fiji Experience

YouTube would be my favourite site...
What I really like is browsing for a song I like then playing all the different versions of the song and by different artist very enjoyable and relaxing.
I wonder if we could convert our online video tutorial and place them onto YouTube then links on our web pages?

Only a thought...
Colin

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Thing 15 - Play with Flickr




http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigcol_2009/

Thing 14 - Tame technorati

Technorati is an interesting site, but is really useful for the serious blogger.

The site is set out well with lots of nice bells and whistles.

I doubt I would use this site in the future

Colin

Thing 13 - Discover delicious

Very handy tool to have when needing your bookmarks at home, work and other sites.

Creating RSS Feeds is the biggest plus for this tool.

Colin

Thing 12 - Explore LibraryThing

LibraryThing - http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bigcol

What a great way to share common interests, and meet people...

I will be investigating adding LibraryThing to the Chisholm Catalogue.

Colin

Thing 11 - Play with an image generator

Beach custom comment codes for MySpace, Hi5, Friendster and more - ImageChef.com

Created at http://www.imagechef.com/

Thing 10 - Edit a wiki

Wikis are fun sites!!!

Simple to edit and update and easy access for everyone.
Thanks Jason for giving us a smart URL to login with.
I thought here we go another login and password, phew!

I added the "Favourite Holiday Place" link and page.

Mana Island Fiji - the ultimate in tropical island getaways...