Wikis

As part of the Be a fit Librarian, I've been playing around a bit with a wiki and I will be doing more with a group of people trying to organize a world wide event next June. Wiki's are clearly very useful.
I'm also enjoying reading about people's favourites - or favorites!

I've also discovered that there are certain terms that elicit comments in blogs that are essentially ads for their own website. I deleted the comment but can't delete, it seems, who it is from - and that is really what I want to delete. Hmmm

My favourite sign generator

I love the idea of making a fake newspaper from here:
http://tools.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp
I made this one for the Librarian Fit Club.

How does Library 2.0 actually fit in my library?

It doesn't. We can't even get and keep the latest version of Flash. However knowing all this is important because it is where so much of the public lives, even if our online presence doesn't.
Yes, our latest website for kids has blogs but we don't yet know if the kids are reading them. They aren't responding but then Neilsen said they wouldn't. ;-)
I would love it if we supported tagging - hopw cool would it be for kids to find other books on their own - or other kids with similar interests in books but that is a huge leap for a huge library and it will probably be a long time in coming.

Technorati at last

Technorati is one of those things I have heard about for years but never gotten around to getting to. I can see how useful it would be for finding other people's musings on things of interest. Not sure how much elseI would use it though.
And I was very glad to see that "learning 2.0" brought up better results than learning 2.0 without the quotes.

I'm not at all sure I want to tag my posts. I'm not saying anything of import and I was really surprised to find a stranger not involved with this course commenting on one of my posts.
It wasn't bad, just a surprise.
So I'll just leave it for now and not do anything special except for the plcmcl2 tag.
PLCMCL2

Del.icio.us

Just started looking at Delicious and welcome the chance to see more. I've signed up as Frances but I can't download anything to my tool box at work. I'll try at home. I did do a search though and it seems very useful.
More to come as I use it more!

This is new for me

A lot of what we've been doing here has been fun but actually installing a widget on my blog was one step more than I thought I could probably do successfully. And yet, there it is. A link to Library Thing. Now I just have to get something more up there than some of my favourite Dorothy Dunnett books!

Image generators

This week's session (I am weeks behind) came at just the right time because I was going to try the Motivator - which makes motivational signs. I think mine came out quite well.

This can be found at:

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/motivator.php

I also found one that does barcodes, so this is my homage to The Prisoner

Unfortunately it obscures some of the message. It starts " I am..."