Social Networks

The last official blog, though now I know how to do it...............the skys the limit.

My techno teenagers are into to Myspace/Facebook and a weird social networking site for people interested in alians. Its the new way people are connecting, sharing and keeping in touch with stuff going on around the world.

I loved what Rotorua have done (not only because I'm a kiwi) but because its great. The slideshow, interaction, blogs etc are awesome and seem to target a young audience. Their patrons can gather around a common content to quote Seb Chan and build a strong community. Rotorua has a large Maori population who value community. I think the library haved tapped into that value and built one of their own by inviting comments, participation etc.

I hope libraries in the future can utilise social networking to share expertise, listen to their audience/patrons and promote their collections/events.

I've enjoyed the 2.0 journey. Thank you so much!!!

Application Tools

So many online application tools. Its a bit mind blowing whats available for free. I never knew. We spend so much money on all sorts of software unnecessarily.!!!!.

Being able to create documents online and being able to share and edit is amazing. Not only are you able to work easily from different computers but a number of people can have input into what ever you are creating. Time saving, convenient and beneficial to the library. This obviously useful for the input of several people in the creation of procedures and also in the creation of promotional material.

I found it difficult to move the photos I downloaded around on the document. In the end I just settled for something that worked.! Other wise the Google Docs was easy to use.