Week 6 : EnCompassCulture - the global bookclub

Work in Progress...

• Now that you've mastered the knack of searching for readalike titles/authors, explore this function more (you can search for adult, teen or kids readalikes)
• Create a post and tell us how this site can be used for readers' advisory purposes, consider: how might customers find EnCompassCulture useful? What would library staff get out of this site? Would you promote EncompassCulture to customers? Why/why not?

slideshow

This week it's slideshow, which is an online slide hosting service. As with facebook and other such sites, slideshow allows us to share slide shows privately or into the public arena.
It was easy for me to use, so I think that it would probably be easy for our customers to use. I like creating slideshows and sharing them with my whanau, so I probably would use this site again.
I would definitely promote SlideShow with among our staff as a way for us to create, store and share information among ourselves. However, as a training tool for staff, I find that youtube would is better, especially the "creative commons" series. Considering that one of the major highlights of the social site facebook, is that of sharing photos, I would promote SlideShow to our customers.

Tastespotting

I registered with Tastespotting and found some awesome recipes...so many! Where do I start? I chose Vietnamese Gingery chicken wings, because it filled three of my criteria, it had to be a simple dish, easy to put together, fast to cook and therefore eat :) The site is easy to use and I have used it before, because there are some great recipes and would probably continue to use it. However, there are other sites, one for example is Allrecipes which is easier because I can find recipes by the ingredients that I know I have at home, as well as relating to recipes from NZ and Aust.

It would be beneficial to learn about 2.0 web activities that relate directly to libraries and our customers. Although I think that we get to learn so much more as well, that may not be related to work only. What did I always get out of looking at the beautiful pictures of food... is the drawling effect :)