My thoughts on web 2.0

I can hardly believe I have looked at so many new and exciting things available via web 2.0. It has been a voyage of discovery and there are several sites that I will certainly use in the future. I will probably give bebo and myspace a miss, but at least I know what they are and what the younger generation are talking about when they mention these things. Social networking is definitely the way people will be communicating from now on. I wonder what web 3.0 will be like?. Whilst searching through many blogs and information I have come across several librarians from different parts of the world who are working on web 2.0.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to find out about web 2.0. The programme has been a big learning curve for me, but I do enjoy a challenge and look forward to future discoveries.

Podcasts continued

I have added my podcst links

ebooks

I have looked at ebooks several times before this web 2.0 learning experience. I find it frustrating reading a lot of infornmation online. I searched and found an a couple of interesting titles - Cooking the Chinese Way which has low fat and vegetarian recipes and @ home with your ancestors, how to research family history using the internet.
One positive thing about ebooks is the fact that you can choose your interface language to read the books. I must remeber this when recommending ebooks to customers. I didn't download any of the titles as I am still on dial-up which is so slow. I looked up what it says about downloading audio books and I think I could make several cups of tea whilst I waited :) I saved the above titles to my favourites

week 9 podcasts

Podcasts - I kind of new what they were but I had no idea how to access them etc, but all of that has changed of course. I have chosen Denver Public Library as I can check out their storytime podcasts and learn something new. I have added it to my bloglines account.
I have iTunes on the Apple mac I am slowly learning to use.
BBC and other news sites have podcasts. Wonderful to be able to listen to radio programmes that you miss. I looked up Radio New Zealand and there are a lot of interesting programmes that would be interesting to hear. Mmmm.... can see me walking around with earplugs now listening to podcasts!

Youtube

Youtube is fun. Trouble is there are so many video clips to look at. I have chosen a clip from the Shetland Islands as my Great grandfather came from there and I have been tracing the family tree. Shetlanders look like they have a lot of fun with their Celtic style music. Guess that is why I love Celtic calligraphy and music.
It is in the genes as they say
I also looked at a few of the library clips.Liked the library school student clip. Wonder who clears the outside book drop at the bottom of the stairs :)

zoho writer

Well, after a few tries at getting into zoho I finally arrived. Discovered that you need to have the correct email address typical me miss out a few things!

I like the fact that you can share whatever you are writing in the programme with friends or if you want to with the whole world, those that are using zoho of course. I love the emotion icons. Sure beats the :) when you can add a

I looked at Google docs as well and this also would be a useful tool to remember to use.

Now I am going to try and post this on my blog... here goes!!

week eight web 2.0 tool Medstory

I chose Medstory to explore for web 2.0. I have added it to my list on del.cio.us. I searched the topic arthritis and there is a lot of useful information on the site. You can refine your search at a glance which is helpful. I think this web site could be useful for customers as we often get asked for information about medical conditions. There are databases on Aucland City Libraries web page that are useful, but to have something in a different format is great. It was hard to chose which web 2.0 tool to use. I also had a look at Picasa butprefer Flikr as I really like the 'craft' type things you can do with photos. Digitalmax is a good NZ site for sharing and ordering photos to be printed.