Playing Around With PBWiki!

This exercise took me awhile. Yes, I had to play around with this one. The simple syntax was not too simple for me, though I did finally get to add a favorite vacation spot..Montauk!

So What's in a Wiki?

This exercise gave a really good overview about Wikis. I definitely gained knowledge about them that I had no clue about prior to viewing the variety of resources available.

I liked the library wiki, Library Success: A Best Practice Wiki, quite organized. This wiki is useful for all staff in every department. As a librarian, the Reader's Advisory topic area had many helpful suggestions as well as the Programming subject area.

Check out Wikis in Plain English YouTube video. What do you think?

This entire exercise assisted me in gaining new knowledge about Wiki, guiding me through another informative step in Learning 2.0.

LEARNING 2.0

"Perspectives on Library 2.0"

I found these articles very interesting. I particurlary liked "Into a New World of Librarianship" by Michael Stephens and "To a Temporary Place in Time.." by Dr. Wendy Schultz.

Stephens article gets to the point and outlines the most important traits of Librarian 2.0. I couldn't agree more with him that user-centered libraries breakdown barriers and allow users access wherever they are: home, work, commuting, school, or at the library. Another strong point in this article is Library 2.0 listens to staff and users when planning, and learns from both successes and failures. His last comment says it all " Never stop dreaming about the best library service".

Dr. Schultz and her vision, which takes us from Library 2.0 to Library 4.0, takes us to the top! Imagine a library world incorporated like a retreat with luxury spa library service and knowledge. I just love it!

Getting to Know YouTube

Michael Buble - One of my favorite performing artist/singer. His songs are filled with so much energy and emotion!

Technorati!

While exploring popular blog, Boing Boing has so much information. I am not sure I have much use for it at this time and it felt overwhelming. However in my results I came upon You Tube-there are so many videos out there. Some really great ones, some so silly and some so stupid.
Technorati Profile
Never thought I would get so wrapped up in the blogosphere! Two months ago I didn't even know what a blogosphere was. I have now claimed my blog and added tags.
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del.icio.us

Well, I finally set up an account with del.cio.us and actually created a few tags. My tags include health and librarian professional. I can see myself using this social bookmarking manager at times, and yes, it is definitely unstructured (that bothers me a bit). I bookmarked an article on "5 Reasons Not to Drink Bottled Water". Feeling a little neurotic??

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