Wiki

This was as an interesting exercise, the fact that you can add and edit a wiki page with your own information. I looked at but didn't attempt to alter my local towns wikipedia page as I didn't feel comfortable doing this having recently moved here. I did look at several other wiki pages and think that this idea would be great for book clubs and possibly for families who are searching their family trees where there is distance involved.

RSS

This was an interesting exercise and I managed to add four RSS feeds to my blog through Google reader. Choosing which sites to use probably took a bit of time but I chose four, ABS, ABC News, Field guide to birds, and Womens health by a medical librarian which should be informative. The only one that didn't work was the Powerhouse museum as I kept getting a message "the feed being requested cannot be found". Maybe there was a problem with the site at the time.
Having these feeds readily available will make information on subjects easy to find with less searching involved and content will be up to date. The news comes to you! I am not sure how this would be used at work, but we will be able to assist patrons with enquiries relating to RSS.

Flickr

I had several attempts at placing this photo on my blog, but eventually as you see I was successful. Maybe I will have many attempts with each session of 2.0 but it is all a learning experience. I have one photo I uploaded to flickr from my own photos for sharing but then chose this one for my blog. Sharing photos could be helpful where there is distance involved between branches so this may help by providing another format of keeping updated and sharing. The choice of photos on flickr is amazing.
At the moment I have a cheeky but friendly magpie who comes to my front door for some food. I started a few weeks ago randomly feeding her, but now she sees my car in the driveway when I come home from work and warbles to me until I give her some mince. Her partner is with her each visit but not as cheeky as she is.

Well here I go along with many other new bloggers out there learning the ropes. I hope it all goes smoothly and I look forward to new discoveries ahead.