Summary

Well, to be brutally honest I have found this program a big drag. Most of the topics I already knew about, and they are not relevant within my workplace - people who are into these sorts of things do not come into public libraries to do them, or if they do they certainly don;'t need our help to do them.

The whole thing has been difficult to complete - we couldn't access the sites on our work PCs so had to do it on the public ones or do it at home.

Podcasts

I am of 2 minds re Podcasts. I can't really see too much in their use in public libraries but for people at home I think they are good. My mind goes to the ABC podcasts that they promote all the time. As it's a free servcie and they offer so many of them I think that's really great.

Web 2 awards

Thera are too many of these to be really meaningful. It's like weeding - the best way to boost loans is to chuck out your old stuff so you cab better see the good stuff.

Does this pass as a post on the topic? Sorry, I can't go on and on for thousands of words on these things.

Zoho

I had never heard of this one. I have known about Staroffice for ages, and even loaded it onto my home PC but gave up on it. It may be time to revisit the idea of using something like this and abandon being a slave to Microsoft.

Library Wikkis

I am not so enthused here.. it obviously takes an awful lot of time to keep good wikkis going. Surely there are enough good sites out there without us writing our own?
The ones listed are all great, but who's got the staff to do this sort of thing?

Learning 2.0 and libraries

Where are we going? Well, I find it hard to be deep and meaningful, but generally I think 2.0 tools can be an opportunity for (public) librraies to do interesteing things on the web sites to entice users into the library's world, and making their library relevant to them. All the YouTube/Facebook type stuff is a great hook to get a category of non-users changing the way they think about the library. We can make ourselves fun and with-it (doesn;t that sound so old-fashioned?).

It may only last a while, but it's a good hook to use.

Technorati

I was very confused in this one - how do I do a search in Blog posts, in tags and in the Blog Directory? I could only find one search box on the page.

I obviously fail this one! I think I will ask one of the wizzes who have finished.