The 23rd thing!!!

Wow, I've done the 23 things, and the survey has been done as well, made it to the end. Actually it's a bit hard to do them after work, but it's quite enjoyable cos I've learnt a lot of new stuff such as RSS, image generators, LibraryThing, Wikis, tagging, Zoho writer, Podcast, etc. I think it's important for us library staff to keep the pace with the IT innovation so we can help our customers better. Anyway it is really a good learning experience. Many thanks to those who design this program. Keep an eye on the changing technology@@@

eBooks

I viewed the free eBook site Project Gutenburg, although eBook is not new to me, I found a lot of interesting books there. But it is not a way for me to read online -- my eyes will complain if I keep reading books on screen. It is still quite a nice solution when you can't find a book from either the book stores or the libraries.

Podcast

Podcast now is named the word of the year by New Oxford American Dictionary, which I have no idea about before:(
I tried both Podcastalley and Podcast, and I found Realtime Nexus Digital Library, it is the world's leading source of free, expert technology eBooks and guides. You can listen to industry experts on the technology tips, practices, e.g. today's IT professionals, very useful site. I will use the tool in the future to keep pace with the changing world.

YouTube, have fun!

YouTube, definetely the top video sharing webpage, which you can find whatever you want from. I tried search by "Library" and a lot of videos related to libraries came out.The video "Mr Bean in the library" made me laugh and laugh until my tummy was sour. These kinds of libraries are extremely rare nowadays, but yes they do still exist, maybe in Britain. Youtube might be a new tool to promote our library service.
Although the site is fantastic, you can come into with quite a lot of rubbish thers, I won't recommend YouTube to children.

YouTube

Discovering Web 2.0 tools

For the Web 2.0 Awards nominees, one of my favorites is Im Cooked. I'm interested in cooking and baking, but honestly I'm not a good cooker:(, but it's enjoyable for me to read cooking books and watch cooking programs. Im cooked is an awesome web community for video recipe sharing , step by step. Heaps of fun. Watching it!

Some online productivity

I created a free account in Zoho Writer, I found it quite helpful if you don't want to carry a memory stick with you all the time. You can create your document at home and view or edit it by at work thru internet, and you can release your document to the public, sounds a bit like WiKi.

Social Networking

I did look around about Check it out , Myspace and Facebook. I found there were 8 libraries who had already registered with Facebook. I registered with Facebook cos I thought it was a good way to keep in touch with your friends by sharing photos and videos. And you can relink with your old classmates whom you haven't been met for years.

On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I read through those different thoughts on Library 2.0 and web 2.0, I tend to agree with Michael Stephens that Librarian 2.0 is a trendspotter and it controls technolust. Also I agree with Chip Nilges that Web.0 is a powerful way to cooperate with user and collect their intelligence, and also web 2.0 and Library 2.0 can build better data of library information and technology. Apparently Web 2.0 is a significant way to expose expand and extend data of library service. And Dr. Wendy Schultz's steps of Library 1.0-4.0 is quite amazing, they can change our ways of interacting and sharing information with our users.

Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

I took a look at technorati and tried the keywork search for "learning 2.0' and found different results in blog posts, in tags and in the blog directory. I tried the Boing Boing and Techcrunch-two of the top 100 blogs, and I was surprised by the results-185,265 blog reactions about Techcrunch@

Week 6: Tagging, folksonomies & Technorati

I did spend a lot of time exploring http://del.icio.us/, and I have to say it is amazing. It is a useful tool to find relevant information cos they are related by a partcular subject and easy to access. And the most important thing is by using the tag you can access those information by the tag even if you use different computers.
Also I did some search about the tags and found there were 28740 items with "web 2.0"......

Playing around with PBWiki

This task is really a play and fun one, but first of all you need to read through the instruction,so you can get the key which allows you to access the webpage. I did add my comments on favourite destination and favourite number.

Wiki Wiki

Wiki(comes from the Hawaiian phrase"wiki wiki") is a quick-to-build, easy-to-edit website that allows all the users to add, remove or edit information easily. It can be used as an online community board to give ideas, suggestions and comments, and those informations are easy to be edited and deleted. So it seems Wiki is not a safe way to share your ideas with your friends online if you don't want these information to be seen by the public.

But anyway Wiki can a good library tool,the customers can use it to share their reading suggestions.
I found the St. Joseph County Public Library System is a user friendly pathfinder. Here is the link
http://www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/index.php/Main_Page

Turn your photo into a customized photo

Jigsaw: Turn a photograph into a customized photo jigsaw puzzle.

Flickr color Pickr

This site http://www.krazydad.com/colrpickr/ can let you find public photos that match a specific color. Simple click the color you like and those photos from Flickr will show up.

MSN-Windows Live Messenger

MSN is such an amzing tool to help me chat with my friends and family members overseas, and to share photos, music, even videos with them. I can store as many photos as I want in my MSN account and don't need to worry about losing them when my computer is down. It is so wonderful to imagine that even in 30 years these photos and videos are still there to refresh my memory!This is the website http://www.msn.com/

Flickr fun

Have some Flickr fun!This is my trading card which is made by FD Toys Trading Card Maker. All you have to do is upload your photo and choose the color and layout of your card.

http://flickr.com/photos/28945860@N02/2702867891/

Photos and Images

Flickr is a photo sharing website by using tags or keywords to help and search for photos. I tried two different ways to upload my photo:

First, upload it by simple clicking the image icon in the post editor's toolbar,select the photo from my computer and choose the layout.

Second, I create a Yahoo account and upload my photo to Flickr acount and make it publicI.Here is the link http://www.flickr.com/photos/28945860@N02/

LibraryThing

Want to create your own online library? Then LibraryThing is the right choice. The registration is simple, and it is easy for you to add your favorite books to your catalog by just entering the title. You can even connect with other people who have the similar reading tastes with you by using this online tool.
The link to my libraryThing is http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ponynz

The Generator Blog

Dog Tag

How to make a dog tag

1.Enter emboss text
2.Choose dogtag style
3.Choose silencer colours
4.Choose chains
5.Preview the tag

Week 2 task

I spent more time to figure this one out as I was told it was the most difficult tasks of the whole 23 -thing. Yes, it is! So for all of you who have not done this task, pls read through the instructions throughly and then you can try to tackle this discovery exercise, otherwise you'll lose yourself somewhere during the procedure. Now everyone can view my RSS feeds which I chose by simply click my URL http://www.bloglines.com/public/ponynz. Cool, isn't it!

Register done! Wow ^^

Now I've already set up my new blogger, a new exploration, isn't it? Maybe a bit more busy for me, cos I have another blog to maintain and update...
Next step, ooops, what's that? Send my URL to Web 2.0 Manukaulearn@gmail.com, and don't forget to cc it to my manager, otherwise I won't receive the Prize! ;)
22 more things to do! keep going.......