#23 Is this really the end?

Wow, I've finished!! Thsi exercise has been very intriguing and worthwhile. There was quite a few things you can do that I never knew about. Favourites include flickr - a great way of adding and manipulating photos to show the world, and also LibraryThing. This would be very useful for me to catalogue lp's at home. I wasn't too keen on delicious or technorati, but found the existence of ZohoWriter fantastic! Even though the branch I am at does now have Word, it will be great to tell patrons of those branches that, as yet, don't. Patrons can benefit from all of these mentioned as well as being able to listen to books online and then downloading them to their ipod! All in all, although at times very hard to get time at work to do this program, and finding some links not working, the program was very beneficial to me, and therefore, to our patrons. Cheers.

#20 YouTube

I love Youtube! There are so many crazy videos on this (and some very useful informative videos). So much time can be wasted but it is a lot of fun. And now you don't even have to search for the best videos yourself anymore...just watch Friday night TV on Ch 10! Crazy....Anyway I had become addicted to the Tetris game on my TV! Yes, very sad, I know. Every ad break I was constantly playing it. Then the TV broke. It was a hard habit to break free from. But just as well, because I might have ended up like these guys in this YouTube video I found! Check it out...

#22 Audiobooks (or the end is in sight!)

I have had patrons ask me about this very subject! Can they download audiobooks to their MP3 players? So this was great. Not for me, but then I don't need it and am not one for listening to books on tape (not yet anyway!) But can see it would be perfect for those wanting a good book to listen to while they are busy online. I tried out another favourite - Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart which was great! I will recommend it! Also great for finding those books not easily accessible from anywhere else (including public libraries). And all for free!!!

#21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

Before this program I had never really listened to many podcasts but have found these very useful and informative. I began by searching the podcast directory, yahoo search, thinking it would be very easy to navigate through and it is! I searched for information on one of my favourite authors - Fay Weldon. A couple of sites in particular brought up the most interesting info, with interviews from radio from her. These were http://www.wiredforbooks.org/ and http://www.redmood.com/. However, the best podcast directory I found was Podcast Alley. This is so simple, easy and fun to use! Containing interviews with musicians, forums, and a top ten of the month! I liked the 'pick a podcast genre' category. I chose 'food and drinl' and there were many 'alkcasts' to choose on this subject. Everyhting from restaurant reviews to menus and how to brew your own beer. This directory was definitaly my favourite.

#19 Web 2.0 awards

Fancy there being awards! Had a good look around a lot of these from the 'winners' category. Firstly, I went to the category 'music' and to the winner 'pandora' but access denied! So I went on to Yahoo answers which is great. I will defintaley keep this in mind for those tricky questions patrons ask! In the Events cateogy, under 'upcoming' it took me straight to Geelong and said there were no upcoming events! Surely not!! lol! So once again, had to trek to the Big Smoke where they had listed 27 upcoming events. Pretty short but informative. Lots of fun to just play around here.

#18 Web based applications

Well I never knew Zoho writer existed! It's fabulous! If onlyI had of known about this when our library pc's didn't provide access to Word! I could have avoided many verbal attacks from them!! It looks extrememly slick and very much like what we all know and use. Very easy to navigate through and provides pretty good templates such as resumes and cover letters. Also the added bonus of many features, in particular forums. This is great and I will be reccommending it to anyone who doesn't have access to word.

#16 So what's in a Wiki?

Having limited knowledge of Wiki's (I had only heard and used Wikipedia) there is a whole world out there of people putting in their little bits of info and knowledge (?) to the world. So deciphering whether or not the info is reliable depends on the site your looking at I guess. The library sites would be pretty reliable I'd say! Liked bookloverswiki - thought the idea of the staff book reviews was great. Even though we have that on our library website, it would be great to use this method as other staff and patrons can easily add their opinions to it. Also, as our library info such as new release titles is updated monthly, this would be an easy and quick tool to use. Wikipedia provided me with information on a certain TV series that has just ended, that I could not find using a google search. It was quite frustrating but Wikipedia came through with the goods!