Thursday, 8 April 2010
blogs
Fantastic to see so many blogs across Oxford libraries. Shorter sections, pictures, imported content, make the page more attractive to read.
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
23 things
It's been a great pleasure to do this training course. Here are some thoughts:
i) learning new stuff - of the things I hadn't seen Google docs and picnik were highlights. I'd already found Google Reader and really recommend it.
ii) really enjoyed sharing the experience with colleagues - in the common room, whilst visiting other sites, etc. really good way to do training.
iii) personal and professional. Not motivated to blog/tweet/facebook from a personal perspective but there is potential for the library. I thing these will be easier to set up than maintain and we need to make sure we can maintain any web 2.0 sites we initiate.
iv) time. quite a challenge to keep up with 23things and do the day job. Particularly when the Things invite a world of distraction (twitter, youtube, picnik). If I integrated the personal and professional - with all the web2.0 communciation tools I think I'd be drawn into spending half my time on personal communications.
v) big thanks to the organizers of the course for identifying such interesting content and writing such lucid and organized instructions.
vi) more please...
i) learning new stuff - of the things I hadn't seen Google docs and picnik were highlights. I'd already found Google Reader and really recommend it.
ii) really enjoyed sharing the experience with colleagues - in the common room, whilst visiting other sites, etc. really good way to do training.
iii) personal and professional. Not motivated to blog/tweet/facebook from a personal perspective but there is potential for the library. I thing these will be easier to set up than maintain and we need to make sure we can maintain any web 2.0 sites we initiate.
iv) time. quite a challenge to keep up with 23things and do the day job. Particularly when the Things invite a world of distraction (twitter, youtube, picnik). If I integrated the personal and professional - with all the web2.0 communciation tools I think I'd be drawn into spending half my time on personal communications.
v) big thanks to the organizers of the course for identifying such interesting content and writing such lucid and organized instructions.
vi) more please...
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
google docs
briliant! my wife is a freelancer and uses google docs to distribute information - so much better than email attachments for keeping track of collaborative work. Quite happily sell my soul to google.
wikipedia
I constantly use Wikipedia for quick reference. I was a shakespeare-librarian for 13 years and a topic sure to cause argument and disagreement is the authorship to Shakespeare's plays. Sure enough, the wikipedia article is disputed with a complicated string of accusations and counter accusations. But, the article made these disputes explicit and info. was fairly accurate.
wiki
I've been a member of SocialOULS for some time although not an active contributor.
I do manage a page on http://realspaceatox.wikispaces.com, a less-open wiki that requires membership. The info. is great but it needs more people to be involved.
I do manage a page on http://realspaceatox.wikispaces.com, a less-open wiki that requires membership. The info. is great but it needs more people to be involved.
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