Week 20 Event Management

I thought the Doodle website/tool was good - easy to use. The only useful library application I could think of (in our context)was for bookgroup, good way to confirm attendance and vote on books.

I liked the Demand it! feature on Eventful, democracy and social media in actiion! Also liked how you could view events by location (reminds me of the ABC's The big diary). I like how you can sell tickets with Eventbrite, makes it possible for small organisations (such as ours) to sell tickets online - maybe author visits etc. Couldn't view Anyvite as council had denied access to the site.

Week 19 Productivity - doing more with rss

I like google alerts and have set one up for "Wollondilly Library".

1. How have you been using your RSS reader? Do you read it regularly?

I was really keen when I set up my RSS reader but then found I never had time to actually read it.

2. How have you organized your feeds? Does that help you keep up?

I've organised my feeds into two categories - work and play - theory is this will let me prioritise...we'll see

3. Which of the above tools did you try? What did you like about them?

I set up an account with FeedMyInbox because I loved the convenience of having feeds sent straight to my email. I'm having trouble making their booklet tool work properly, but other than that it is very convenient. A feed of this type is more likely to be useful to me. I especially liked how you narrow down searches on a particular site and then set up a feed for that search.

Week 18 Slideshows, screencasting and digital story telling

I had a look at all four suggested sites (AuthorStream , Zoho Show , Google Presentation and 280 Slides)and found none of them as easy to use as some of the previous tools mentioned in Learning 2.0 (for example, photobucket). I have embedded a slideshow I created in photobucket (Newbooks)in this blog. I think the digital storytelling feature has a lot of potential in local studies.

Week 17 Nings

Joined the NSW Public Libraries group on the Library 2.0 ning and three other groups (Twitter as a tool, law library 2.0 and training 2.0). Very straighforward to join, navigate and get badge (see on the right). I look forward to discovering innovative ways libraries are using 2.0. Read some interesting discussion about Twitter, "using Twitter search to create an aggregated Atom feed of relevant tweets" - will have to check this one out.

Week 16 Evaluation of web 2.0 tools

I have added a Feedburner widget to my blog - I will be seriously embarrassed if anyone subscribes! But am thinking it would be a very worthwhile feature for our library website.

Set up a Google Alert for "Wollondilly", it will be interesting to see what the world has to say about our shire and then how we can use that in the library, for example I found out that nominations for Dilly Youth 2010 is now open - maybe we can publicise this along with out youth resources/services for some shameless promotion.

I have recently used SurveyMonkey to create an evaluation form for our Facebook for Seniors workshop. It's very easy use, and provides lots of options to customise your survey.

Week 15 Delicious

Love love love delicious! I think my favourite new tag is "toread". I have had a delicious account for a while now and have also created a wollondillyreference account (which is now linked to twitter - wlis on twitter).

Week 14 Twitter

I set up the Library's Twitter account and we use it quite often - we're mindful of only posting useful tweets and not bombarding it just to appear active. Our account is linked to our Facebook page, and most of our tweets now are fed from there. PS Have just linked Twitter and Flickr - see most recent tweets on the righ.