Social Bookmarking

Well I've spent a couple hours already working through week 7. Folksonimies are much easier to understand than taxonomies and I'd like to see Dewwey made redundant at least in public libraries. Like a few other participants Technorati didn't search plnsw2008, though I did find bookmobiles. I can see the benefits of delicious and tags, but don't know that I have the time to get into this in a huge way right now. Most of my friends and family are 40+ or simply busy raising young families with both parents working to spend too much of our precious leisure time glued to the net. Work wise this would be a great area for our reference & IT staff to develop further. I've created a delicious account & added my bookmarks. Like a lot of the technologies used in Learning 2.0 the I'm not able to download the toolbar icons. I've added a link to my delicious bookmarks.

http://delicious.com/cyoungyoga

Videos & Embedding

I love Youtube - so much fun! Week 6 had to work through on a laptop as our council blocks access to Youtube. Having trouble embedding a video from Youtube.

Wikis

The video clip has been removed. I was surprised that an agency like the CIA would have a wiki, albeit accessible to selected persons only. The most useful applications for libraries could be booklovers review wikis and maybe a reference wiki.

RSS feeds

RSS feeds.

I created an account with Bloglines & selected automatics feeds, quickly adding 90 feeds.

I added PHM picture of the day to my blogline RSS feeds.

My igoogle page has a number of RSS feeds on it tailored to my personal interests around fashion, news, sport and I'll continue to use it.

I've added the library strip Unshelved to this blog

Flickr picture

Here is a really cool picture of the National Library of Australia.

Looks great at night, a pink library against an orange sunset, overlooking Lake Burley Griffin.

Creating a blog

Hi,I'm participating in Learning 2.0 run by The State Library of NSW.

At my workplace we use blogs to market events and our bookclubs.

Learning 2.0 will help me to better understand blogs & and other apps & how to best use them for the library service - hey maybe I'll even find the time to create a personal blog. I tried this course last year, but ran out of time to complete it, since then I've learnt a little more about Web 2.0 technologies.

Fingers crossed it's easier this time around!