Del.icio.us/Technorati/LibraryThing

This week with so much to do I think I will break this into 3 exercises. In del.icio.us I have added three bookmarks at this stage but plan on adding more later. It wasn't too difficult adding these but what I have found is that there have been some changes made to this site since the 2.0 learning course started. 'Adding tags' is in a slightly different area and the symbol is different, not worded as post. Anyway I am finding my way around.
Having these sights bookmarked in delicious, tagging can be shared amongst library groups which would be time saving and also great that this can be viewed from any computer unlike stored in favourites. Maybe local history rooms at some branches could share. It is all so interesting what is available.
Delicious/WanderingLil

With Technorati I chose not to register but I can see having this tool available for raising your profile on the web. There is so much information to browse through too, it is almost overwhelming. I did the exercise for 'bookmobile' and found over 800 hits and through advanced search chosing 'tags' I got 44.

I really enjoyed the Library Thing adventure and felt it was easy to navigate around. What a good reference tool and I liked the idea that you can create or join in a book group. I think many clients at our library would be interested in Library Thing. Using the clouds, bringing up all the tags maybe helpful for searching for a book when a client has forgotten the author and title, a bit like a subject search.
I added 5 books but plan to add more books to my profile later and play bit more with Library Thing.

U tube & Google video

Once I started watching u tube clips I lost all track of time. So many different subjects, some done really well, others I only watched a couple of seconds of. I searched several public library related videos and found some of these informative and entertaining. I especially liked the "Discover a new world at Columbus Public Library" promotion clip which was obviously professionally done but would be very appealing to teenagers and children. I think promoting libraries via u tube is the way to go with instructional clips helpful to new patrons. More Australian content on u tube I guess will happen in time.
discover a new world at columbus public library - Google Videos

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.