Wrapin' it up.....

I have actually found this little adventure into “WEB 2.0” quite fun!!…. It has opened my eyes up to so many different forms of communication technology that I have not had a chance to know about until now… I think I have enjoyed Library thingy the most out of everything – such a great way to know what people are reading and to get reviews and just to see what book’s are out there…
I use RSS feeds now all the time to get up to date info sent to me constantly – which I love so much for its convenience…. And now I also have a facebook page thanks to WEB 2.0 which I’m sure I will keep on using and have lots of fun with …. And I also absolutely loved the U TUBE exercise – hours of fun to be had there….So all in all there are quite a few things I will intimately carry on using in my everyday life, from learning how to, from this exercise WEB 2.0
– so thank you Ghylene & Casey for bringing it to us!
J  

Geocaching

This is really interesting, for people who have alot of time on their hands and like getting out and about on "Orienteering type exercises". I can see the fun in this working around old historical tracks were first settlers made camps and resided and dug for gold or something alike??.. Like for example at Star Swamp around the Marmion area (not far off the coast), there is a track around the swamp where early settlers came to camp and there are little stories on plaques all along the track around the swamp, with information on their lives and its really quite interesting… maybe this information could be transported into a GPS for the purpose of people being able to do Geocaching  maybe?... just a thought…. But not sure exactly how it would work for the library unless our library was situated on an old historical site were first settlers inhabited maybe- or something along those lines?.... Would be fun to do a little Geocaching  exercise, but do not know anyone with a GPS unfortunately.

Online Video

U tube is just so fantastic!!! - Love it so much ....could sit for hours and watch anything under the sun on anything I could possibly imagine searching for, there'll be something on it that is highly entertaining to watch!... What a great way to show our Library off, by having someone film the interior and exterior of the building, to entice new members to come along and join up and see what we have to offer them...

I have just seen on our Wiki another great use for U Tube/Online Video .... by using it as a way to communicate to staff  how beneficial our new disk machine cleaner is, as there is a U Tube clip placed on our Wiki page on the workings of the disk repair machine, hopefully smoothing out any concerns some of the staff may have had, with regards to the cleaning/repairing of the disks...

Face book & Twitter

I can see how Face book can be helpful for some Companies to have their staff use a COMPANY face book site and hop on it once a day to talk with other people, or write comments on it, to build interest & building rapport and maintaining that interest within that company (if there is something that the company is pushing)... I guess it could work within the library if we wanted to share reviews of books or talk about new titles we have added to our collection We can shoot messages out on our facebook page to all the people who have signed up on us, who of course will be interesting in knowing about new updated info such as this.It was fun to make my own personal face book page up, as up to now I only knew about it, but did not have a page... I can see how adictive it can be....oh O!

However, with regards TWITTER, I'm not as sure how this can benifit the library as much, as there are many other (and more heavily used by the demographic that use our library), of electronic forms, that would be better to promote the library (and what is going on in the library), like a blog for example, than I think TWITTER would be, as I think with TWITTER you get alot of unnecessary information on it from people writing whatever comes into their heads, that really should just stay in their heads!!!!
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But it was interesting anyway though to see how it all works...

Podcasts

Our Guest speakers would benifit I think hugely from using Podcasts to advertise their book or self promote themselves before doing a Guest Speaker Event here at the Library.

How clever is this - I never knew little Lego men were so adaptive!

YAY for "Library Thingy" Bookmarking!!! & Delicious

It's a great place to get reviews on books - check mine out!... http://www.librarything.com/catalog/bobbibrown