Blog 8

I am now officially a member of the 21st century!  I have joined Facebook.  My problem is that I love filling in forms so I may have got carried away with the details and I'm afraid I will be found!! I just found out that Midland Swan is my friend yayy!! So I will now attempt to post a message to them, wish me luck!! This was successful so now I find I’m checking facebook regularly just to see who wants to be my friend – how sad is that. I think it would be a great idea if we could allow our library patrons to come in and use facebook, we might get some of those elusive young adults we all would like to reach.

Blog 7

Well LibraryThing was successfull I now have a widget or was that a wodget or gadget on my blog.  My Nana (God rest her soul) would think I was talking in another language. LibraryThing is really useful in LibraryWorld it is a great way to have your favourite books at your fingertips and your very own virtual library with no yucky books allowed. It also gives me the opportunity to be a book reviewer, which is not an easy job. You think you realise what a book is about, then you read another review and there could have been a whole other meaning that went totally over my head

Blog six

Delicious is delicious, how easy is it now going to be for me to find all my favourite things, wherever I may be.  Being able to have great sites to share with friends and colleagues and to sort through them all using tags is fantastic. Having this sort of tool available to library customers who don't have their own computer would be invaluable. Going back over this tool I realised that it wasn’t really as straight foward as I first thought. You really need to know what you are doing to set this up. At the moment I’m trying to set it up on my home computer and it gave me a few headaches.

Blog five

Having an awful time with wetpaint.  It won't let me sign up and I thought it was just me, now discovered there is a problem with the website.  I shall have to skip this one a come back at the end, if time permits.  Another thing I'm having trouble with is commenting on blogs especially the course participents who are racing ahead.  I don't know what they are talking about, I feel so alone!! Well I’ve had another go and managed to sign up and edit the Swan Libraries wiki, I feel a little better about it now. I still have alot of blog comments to catch up on though.

Blog four

Finally learnt what a wiki is!! Almost my elusive eureka moment I'm searching for.  Checked out some of the wiki's suggested and really liked the idea of having the job instruction guides (JIG's) on a wiki, as these can be updated so much more easily. Working through this course is introducing me to alot of new words of which some are really silly, who came up with the word wiki, I guess I shall google (another stupid word) it. I just googled it and now know that wiki is a Hawaiian word for 'fast'.
I set up my own wiki called Tragic Docker Fan, which everyone knows that i am.

Blog number three

Well, I've just completed week four and have an understanding of RSS feeds and have subscribed to some feeds successfully.  I did find it all very confusing, however I will soldier on and hopefully it will all magically fall into place and I will have a eureka moment, here's hoping.

My second blog

Blog number 2.  Learning about Flickr, what a fantastic way to store and protect precious memories.  Found some terrific shots of Mandurah, who would live anywhere else! These images are of our new Falcon eLibrary and Community Centre being built. http://flickr.com/photos/fieldplates/ Its such a beautiful building. It's full of light and has such a great feel about it, it really deserves a visit. I'm thinking about putting my own collection of photo's on Flickr to keep them safe, although I do also have them on a portable hard drive. It would be great to put all of our library event photos up where everybody could access them. We have such a lot of great events like author visits, children's activities, I particularly love our collection of photos from our Home Library Service Christmas party for our patrons.