Week 8 Thing 19 Web 2.0 Award Winners

I looked at the list of winners and honorable mentions and saw that we've already expolored a few of them. Nice to know we are working with the "elite!" I ran down the list and since I'm not really a techie sort, chose Zillow.com in the Real Estate area. It was neat to look at a geographic area, select from the properties on the market, and see what's available, recently sold, etc. Clicking on a little flag brought up more information about the property. Now. To find the perfect place to retire.

I also looked at Etsy.com That was one I'd heard about...even have a friend who is marketing her yarns there. It makes an easy place to locate craftsmen who for one reason or another, don't have a dedicated website (yet!) I saw some lovely items that might be the perfect thing for a special gift.

I'll have to come back and explore the list more...there's just way too much to digest! I know I want to look at ColorBlocker in more depth....

Week 8 Thing 18 Online productivity continued

Had a good time looking at the pages of templates for use in Zoho Writer. Good starting point. I can see using Zoho in a variety ways both at work and at home....

Week 8 Thing 18 Online productivity

I find the idea of having my documents, drivel, ramblings, whatever available wherever I can access a computer quite intriguing!  No more will I have to remember where on earth I've left my 'brain' (travel drive or removable storage device...whatever.) 

 

All the little icons look familiar too, well, perhaps not all of them but at least I have a vague idea of what they're capable of doing...or in the case of my typing, undoing.

 

The website was clear, as were the FAQs.  It was super easy to create...yet another account.  I can see the value of this and look forward to using in a collaborative environment.  Perhaps some of our library school students will be able to use this for their course work!

Knitters......

I stumbled on ravelry.com which is still in beta testing but check it out, fellow knitters! Looks like it could be an interesting place...

The picture is one I took after a dyeing workshop with everyones' efforts spread out. Neat, huh?

Week 7 Thing 17 Playing in the Sandbox

Well, I think I sent the Adult Services Supervisors a wiki invitation to a posting from another library in Maryland who will be participating in The Big Read. Hope it works. I also posted to a couple of the wikis in the Favorites. The whole thing worked easily. Or am I becoming more accustomed to working with these things???

Week 7 Thing 16 Wikis

Of the wiki sites I visited, I liked Library 2.0 in 15 Minutes a Day. The simplicity of some of the explanations was appreciated. Princeton's wiki hasn't been updated since Sept. 2006...and the book for the summer of 2007 is nowhere to be found. I checked out the 2007 wiki for ALA in Washington but didn't see some of the helpful comments I'd seen on previous ALA wikis...too soon? or too late??? Is Bull Run's really a wiki? I checked out some of the connections from MERLIN. It's so hard to keep all this stuff up-to-date. I've even noticed on our own wiki for teams, things sometimes lag. I'm not sure wikis are the first place people look for information nor apparently have we really used them for real interactive participation in a project as yet. Maybe in the future? If they stay around long enough to become a part of the vernacular....things come and go so quickly.....

Just got a picture of one of my new babies, Kona. She is a four-month-old Shetland/Blue-faced Leicester cross with a dark, fine fleece. She came with an older companion, Finoula, a BFL with a crooked hip; both have been tentatively accepted into the flock. Dolly only chases them from time to time!