Final Post

Yep my final post...hehe. I think I will be forever doing this blog :). From the creation of this blog through to my placing comments on a lot of the other blogs...and there were a many, so many that I ended up 'befriending' everyone in the end...well those who had the friend application. Twitter, Facebook and downloading mp3 files weren't new to me and the benefits/and or otherwise, I have mentioned in previous posts. Zamzar was by far my favourite, because of the benefits to myself and to our customers, and GoodReads I found exciting because it was new to me and I found out so much info about books that I would have otherwise not looked at.

A huge negative with web 2.0 was the fact that I never had enough time as well as working in the main library (customers still thought I was on call and I ended up spending more time helping them whilst losing track of my work). So I ended up doing most of my blog at home.

A huge positive is that I really did enjoy doing web 2.0 and I am looking forward to continuing this training. As I have previously said, "I do love learning."

Found this awesome video.

FINAL WEEK - Week 6 - FACEBOOK - Yeehaa!!!

I found this interesting link by iLibrarian about how people are using Facebook, the data is dated (2007), but it is interesting nonetheless. There is also an article about opting out of fb's instant personalization. (April 2010) Scary stuff, it makes me want to end my other fb page. However, I have made a fb page as TeAo Ataahua. Right-te-o, now what were the requirements for this week? I've posted a comment on Manukau Libraries fb about what 'book/magazine' I'm reading right this minute...LOL; what person who works in a library has only one book on the go?? Really?? I was also to find another library and look at the updates that they make. A blog 'by librarians and for librarians' called 'The room of infinite diligence,' led me to Tararua Library . This library has many links to interesting articles such as the usual 'haps in libraries,' council annual plans, author of the week, book reviews, no more bebo, a librarian getting her first aid cert, and the coming of ebooks. One article that I found interesting was how in Baltimore US, patrons order groceries (from the library) and they are delivered the next day to the library LOL. Ooky dookys, in order to answer the rest of the questions I'm to use points;

• fb can (and does) help me keep in contact with my huge whanau, worldwide.
• Our public library fb can be used in much the same way as it is now, by sharing information between those of us who work in libraries and/or our customers.
• I have a personal page already, so it was easy to use and I continue to use it.
• A lot of our customers already use fb, and as yet I haven't been asked about fb. I'm sure our customers will get as much out of fb as many users do at this time. Such as keeping in contact with whanau and friends. As well as the sharing of information, and yes I would promote our page to customers because we do have many customers that would like to be kept up to date with the haps in our libraries.

Ok, so that is the final week and facebook is finished with...yeehaa!!! I've had to really fly through 2.0 because I've got so much on during May, June and July and didn't want to miss out on this awesome learning experience. Because as much as I really enjoy (playing with) my computer, watching DVD's and reading, LEARNING IS MY PASSION.