Week 10

Partcipating in the 23 Things has helped me learn things I propably wouldn't have tried on my own. Some of the things I will use and some I won't. Learning the terms is great and will make a huge difference when helping customers. The things I will use are: downloading media, podcasts, Flickr, Youtube, and LibratyThing. I need to get better with Tagging and del.icio.us and Social networking. I really didn't like Library Elf. Its good to know about avators, image generators and blogging but I doubt I'll do/use it much. Working in a library environment requires us to keep up with current technology so I'm really glad we did the Library 2.0. I needed the motivation to learn. I guess we still have 20 thing left to learn.

Week 9 #22 Downloadable Media

Although I have not listened to any downloadable media I know some of our patrons love it. When I took the digital media training we practiced downloading items and it was pretty easy. I was surprised to read about Librivox being completely run by volunteers and how much they have available, I think it was over 1000 items. My guess is downloadable media will become more and more popular with time. I'm almost ready to buy a MP3 player but I haven't yet. HCPL has a good selection of downloadable media and our site is user friendly. I can recommend it to parents, although I love Tumblebooks best.

Week 9 # 21 Podcast

I added a RSS feed to my Bloglines for a podcast talk radio program. At certain times you can hear interviews with authors/business people/entertainers ect. It may be useful, or at least interesting at some times. I doubt I'll use it much.

Week 9 #20 Youtube

Its great to watch ordinary people doing ordinary things and making it funny. I am copying an ad for a reuseable bag from Chico Bags. It may not work. It has a man dressed up in a bunch of plastic grocery bags like a monster lose in the city. Pretty silly but fun. I love to watch the singing dogs too.

Week 8 #19 Zoho

Zoho is great. It was so easy to set up an account and it looks like so much fun. I played around with it and as soon as I need to create a document, I'm going to use it. I love the little faces.