Flickr

Well well, suprise surprise. There are so many web 2.0 tools around that do similar things. For example, how many bloggers are there. heaps and heaps. that goes with photo sharing tools. Flickr, photobucket etc. I'm currently using picasso at home. I'm not 100% sure if its similar to photobucket or Flickr but I'm going to look into that a bit more. I haven't used it to upload photos but I know that feature is there somewhere. However, it might just be easier to use Flickr as I already have a yahoo account for some groups that I was involved in ages ago.

I'll post some more when I look around a bit more

Web 2.0

Well, we are currently in the process of upgrading our LMS. I'm very excited that our new OPAC will allow patrons to participate in some 2.0 features. This includes links to Library thing as well as the opportunity to rate and review bib records or holdings. This is a very exciting time. At this stage, i won't put up our web address as I would like to wait for the upgrade to be completed and the edited opac is available. Hopefully by Friday I will have updated what we need updating and branding the site to our needs.

Time.......

Well here I am playing with my blog again. Where does the time go. Can you believe its been nearly 2 weeks since we started our "driving lessons" for 2.0 and I've only posted little bits and pieces.

For me so far, its been quite good. I've managed to set up my blog, convince an older friend (in her 60s) that a blog would be the way to keep us up to date when she is overseas visiting her daughter (and touring Egypt, Paris and the Netherlands) and dedicate time at work for my "girls" to blog. Hopefully we will be able to remember to keep going and learn new things. I've had a quick look at some other blogs and found some features that I'd like to incorporate into mine (quotes, images, surveys etc).

Our next lesson.....photos. I hope it uses Picasso because I use that at home but haven't put anything online yet. Who knows......maybe I'll learn how to do that next week.

New Zealand Photo

Well, this is a photo I took in New Zealand. I'm not sure where it was taken as I've just grabbed it off my computer. I don't even think its a great photo but I've put it up.

Test by email

Wow, how great is this. I can send an email which creates a draft for my blog. This is an easy way to keep up to date. .

Day one

Well, fancy that. I've started again. This is my second attempt to formalise (I'm not sure thats the correct word) my Web 2.0 experience. Last time, I tried to do the 23 things but got lost.....well sidetracked in my real life.

I think this is going to be great and a challenge. I don't think learning the Web 2.0 things will be a major challenge but I think we will have challenges for other areas

• IT departments -- Already I can't access youtube
• Work priorities
• Real life priorities
• Outselves -- dedicating time to this.

Currently, I've got a plate of salad (if you can call lettuce, tomato and Carrot a salad) in front of me and I'm doing this while having lunch. Hopefully we'll all get time to work on our licence and pass the driving test safely.