EnCompassCulture (Round 2, Week 6)

EnCompassCulture is not an interesting but just another site for book lovers to explore. I feel it is useful for reader's advisory purposes; you may choose reading your next books by reading Book reviews or select books by the author you have not read before by reading the Author's interviews. And for the library staff who are really enjoying quizzes, they are lots of questions you can answer to test your book knowledge. I would only promote the site to the customers who love books and have plenty of time kill.

SlideShare (Round 2, Week 5)

SlideShare is easy to use although it's a bit slow to download. It is a good tool for people who would like to share their presentation with other people and useful if you want to get some idea from other people's presentation.
For library use, we may put the presentations about 'How to ' things on SlideShare for staff or customers to learn or share.

TasteSpotting ( Round 2, Week 4)

http://www.visionsofsugarplum.com/2008/10/browned-butter-scotch-toffee-blondies.html

The reason why I am choosing this recipe/image is because I love slice so much, every time when I see any nice one, I can't stop salivating.
It's an interesting website, easy to use, if you only want to browse the image/recipe, you don't need to sign in. Even though it has nothing to do with the books, but will benefit to customers who enjoy cooking, we can not only see the image/recipe, but also other people's comments about it and sometime very interesting story about it.
I think people who love food like me will enjoy TasteSpotting.

FeedMybox (Round 2, Week 3)

FeedMybox is a very easy tool to use for anyone who follows his (or her) favorite blogs or websites, and wants notification of any new posts or content, all you need to have is your email address, just sign up and use.

I subscribed Manukua Library and Auckland Library when I first signed in, after that, I received our Manukau Library's updated 'Top 5 Goodies' every day. I may use it in the future if I find a really good blog which I would like to follow.

PicApp (Round 2, Week 2)

German shepherd dog and tiger are my most favourite creatures in the world!
I have a German shepherd dog but I don't think I would ever afford to have a tiger.

The good things I find the PicApp are:
1. No hassle to sign up.
2. Easy to use, just search the pictures you want and copy and paste.

The downside is:
1. Slow (and I can only see the first page for some reason, when I tried to click 'Next', nothing happened).
2. Not plenty of pictures to choose from.

I don't think I would use it again, I would rather to use some other website.

Box.net (Round 2, Week 1)

Since we started the web 2.0 training, Box.net is the first thing I tried to use even before I totality understood it and now I feel it is so convenient.
As part of our Chinese book selecting process, the book shops send us very big lists of the book titles to choose from and also we have to add some other titles we may want to order from them. Because we have to do it individually from each different branch, the person who is in charge with it has to combine the lists from each of us. Think of there are 10 Excel forms which each has 10 pages, what a time waste. Fortunately, now we have Box.net, and also we can do it at anywhere, not even using email (My brain has difficulty to remember people's email address).

Facebook - playing nicely with others(Week 6)

Facebook is very popular and it helps you connect with friends and family and to keep in touch. It can help the library promote events to library users easily and to a broad audience. There is a lot in the site so it is a bit hard to navigate in the beginning, but you get used to it. All the basic functions are easy to use though. I probably wouldn't use facebook because it is not a good platform for proper communication, only for saying hi and keeping your friends up to date with your life. Customers would be able to chat with friends and family on facebook if they made one, so for some people this may be useful or fun. If the library had a facebook page, it would be good to promote to customers as they can be notified of special events and it reminds them to visit the library and make use of the facilities.