Week 10 - Mashed potato ... mashups

I really loved the mashups - Voicethread was great! As the blog stated, these would be very useful in a local history digitised collection.

Week 9 - podcasts and audio

Podcasts are great tools and would be very useful in libraries. I would love to include this application in the annual report (online version). Isn't technology great!

Week 6 - video etc.

Tried uploading the following YouTube video "No Cookies in the Library" but an error message kept appearing saying that the file could not be uploaded. Embedding video into blogs is a useful tool that could be of great use especially for training purposes.

Group work is good! Got some help from a fellow web 2.0 trainee and now the You Tube feed is working well.

Week 8 - Answer boards and social searching

Loved the librarian question and answer board. Great to see librarians are providing the most useful answers in light of the way in which people tend to view technology as the answer to all. I found the question and answer board would be extremely useful in so many different applications, especially where users wish to remain anonymous.

Week 7 - Tagging folk songs no really folksonomies...

Had a bit of trouble due to the fact that we are working externally. I think that I will have to revisit this section of the training from work and re-post.

Week 5 - Wikis

This part of the tutorial deals with wikis which are more interactive and collaborative than blogs appear to be. The RRL Wiki has been extremely useful in resource sharing - especially for photos and useful information services resources.

Week 4 - RSS feeds

RSS feeds are such a valuable add-on to a blog page. Feeds provide a great way to keep in touch with what is going on with world events. Unfortunately, the bloglines site was blocked during the training session. Will post later when access is granted.

Week 3 - Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sashodasho/1912126604/

Great photo of Tasmanian waterfall! Love Flickr!

Would love to travel through Tasmania - know someone who based their whole Tasmania trip around waterfalls - amazing!

Week 3 Explore Flickr

Flickr is great! Would love to be able to take photos as lovely as the ones i viewed. Flickr is a very useful tool for libraries, especially in relation to photographic history - eg Wagga Wagga area. This may open up better use of digitised regional images - especially for genealogy enthusiasts.

Blogs and library

I have begun the web 2.0 State Library training and have found that the set up and style of the site is straight forward and easy to use. The training will be useful in assisting me in setting up blogs and for using them in library settings - it is also very useful for my library course as blogs and wikis are used frequently to complete work in collaboration with other students. I am looking forward to the remainder of the course content and hope to become a confident blogger by the end of the training.

May 2009

Two birthdays in May so we've been very busy!

What's coming up?

Davo is busy working on the downstairs bedroom - looks good! I am undertaking the web 2.0 training in a group setting which seems to be working better for me as I have a set block of time to work on the tasks.