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.

Music File and MP3 (Week Five)

I visited cnet download.com for free mp3s. It was easy to use the website since all the genres were listed on the left hand side in a clear easy to find spot. Clicking gives a list of subgenres and then you can see the most popular songs or search for what you want. It is very user friendly and anyone who is used to computers will not have problem using it.

Some other sites i know are 1ting.com and last.fm .

Goodreads (Week Four)

After navigating Goodreads, I came back to Reading and Reviews under our Manukau Library’s Website. I found they are very much alike in some ways; our Reading and Reviews can be called ‘Mini Goodreads’. So I think people who are using our library’s web site will definitely enjoy Goodreads, it is such a good world wide social networking for book lovers.

Twitter (Week Three)

It took a little bit longer than Zamzar to understand and use. But once had it clear in my mind, I found it more interesting.
You choose what you follow, then follow what you choose, make it more open at beginning, and adjust your Twitter Following at any time. It is a most fast and convenient way to spread information once your Twitter net is builds. It is good platform of receiving (rather than sanding) information.
The downside I found so far is there is no any filter function, after a while you may end up getting too much junk.

Zamzar (Week Two)

This is the most succinct website we have ever had since we started the web 2.0 training.
Simple as 123, free, no sign up, without downloading software, the only thing you need is an e-mail address, you can convert file to whatever format you want. Next time when customers have any problems to open file from their own USB drive because of formatting, we can try Zamzar!
Sounds too good?
Want more? you have to pay if
Ø File is big
Ø You want to storage you file more than 24 hours
Ø You want fast conversions

Back to my blog (Week One)

After about a year since the last post, I nearly forget about everything. Finally I am back to my blog!
I am asking myself what things have I learned from it and what I can learn from the new things except spending hours and hours on it. Hope I would find more answers after I finish the new Web 2.0 training.

last one

It has been very interesting working through all of this, and I have learned about a lot of things available on the web which I was not aware of before.
There are many tools available, many of which I was not aware of before. Many seem like they could be very useful, or at least fun.

In particular, Wikis and Video sharing, both with user generated content seem to have had a large impact on modern society. It's fun, interesting and informative, which happens to also be what libraries strive to achieve as well.