Week 18, thing 19

The second site from the web 2.0 awards I checked out was Etsy. It's a showcase for handcrafted item. Wow, what a goldmine. It's like being at an online craft fair. I enjoyed checking out this community of crafters.

Week 8 thing 19

OK, I decided to check out the games link on the Web 2.0 words. I checked out Guess-The-Google. A bunch of images are shown and you have to decide what was typed into Google image to get those photos back.

I played a round and did terribly the first half. I think it must have thought I was dumb because all of a sudden it started getting easier. Anyway it was fun and my final score was 161.

Week 8 thing 18

I now have an account with Zoho writer. I pasted into a blank document a poem I used in a storytime about frogs just so I could see how it all works. I saw how to share if I want to later on.

I'm still leary about having my document on a saving device that is not on my computer - or maybe I'm having a problem with the fact that the place saving it I can't insert on my computer or visually see saved on my hard drive.

Week 8 thing 18

I just listened to the podcast on web based productivity applications. Then I looked at zoho writer and watched a video on google writer. One thing stood out in my mind and I wanted to get it on my blog before I go out on the desk and forget.

I understand about posting the document on the web so invited folks can read it and make edits (if allowed). Maybe this is a control thing on my end, but your document is now on someone else's server rather than a hard drive, disc or thumb drive. What if that server is unavailable or say google looses your file? Wouldn't it make more sense to have your documents on your own saving device? I guess I'm a little skeptical about handing over my document to a service that is in cyberspace.

Once I'm off the desk, I'll come backto thing 18 again and continue exploring. I just needed to get those thoughts down.

Week 7 thing 17

I have to laugh, because it took me 2 tries and help from Christina to understand where the comment I entered ended up on the Maryland Libraries Sandbox. I think I ended up posting my favorites at the bottom of someone elses. Luckily I did find it and deleted it.

Eventually I figured out how to add a comment to the Baltimore County wiki and to add my blog address to the list of favorite blogs. Thanks Christina!! It was fun reading about other staff's favorite things.

http://marylandlibrariessandbox.pbwiki.com/Amie%27s%20Favorites (in case I can't locate it later)

Week 7, thing 16

Because I just finished LATI, wiki's are not a foreign thing to me. It feels nice to say that this is one thing in MD 23 that was not new to me : ) I was introduced to them in LATI since most of our work and communication was done on line.

To me, wikis are almost like blogs that everybody can use and add to instead of just the owner. It's a way to communicate in one place as apposed to email. I'm not sure I see in for libraries just yet. I think it could make a great community bulletin board to post events and happenings. Maybe that could be somehow tied into the library website????

I looked at some of the wikis of other library systems. I want to go back and look at a couple of more to get a better understanding of how they are using them.

Week 6 think 14

I just finished checking out Technorati. I wasn't all that impressed. It looks like a place to search other people's blogs, but only if they've allowed other people to see them. I'm not comfortable putting mine out for the public by adding html for the spider's to search.

I did enter the mdlearn2 to see what others had said about the Maryland 23 program. I saw a few finished blogs. From what they wrote, it is going to be a great feeling to have completed all 23 things. I'm still working to get there.

Week 6 thing 13

http://del.icio.us/alee1974

I tried out the site del.icio.us . I listened to the podcast and could not figure out we would need to use this site. I asked Paula and she showed me how she has hers set up. Basically this site creates a "favorites" list that you can access on any computer. Ah, the light turned on and now I can understand the purpose behind delicious. The link for my account is above. I added so far links for stamped card ideas and sites for comfortable shoes that I've purched in the past.

Week 5 thing 12

Yup, I'm still working on week 5. Today I set up a Rollyo on scrapbooking. http://rollyo.com/kermit1974/

I think this tool can be useful if you have a favorites box full of links on one topic. This tool condenses all the links into one location under one topic.