Beyond Method #5

I personally have a goodreads account and I have enjoyed it. I have the books I want to read and have already read. People will send ideas of books that they think I might enjoy and I'll often check them out.

I enjoy seeing that the other libraries have their own pages and I think we have some of our patrons that would really enjoy that.

Also they can keep track of what they read because we have them come in and ask us "Do you know if I read this?" So that would be beneficial.

I plan on checking out LibraryThing. More for the simple fact that it looks like it would be beneficial to know which I thought was more managable so I could refer them to it.

There are so many new tools I just wish we had enough time to sit and explain how it all works to them.

Beyond Method #4

I looked at a number of the job sites. Simply hired was easier to use then a lot of sites I had checked out. Schoolspring.com I also really liked since we have a lot of teachers coming in here. Texasjobs.com was also fairly easy to use.

I love the GCF and when I give computer classes I give the patrons the URL at the beginning of class. Although many of our patrons do not want to read through a class. They want you to show them what is suppose to be done.

Some of the sites seem easier to manage and at times it isn't just computer skills. We have patrons ask what the application means on certain questions, etc. Also we have found out that some job sites log you off after a certain amount of time and make you log back on. Trying to find out who is computer savy, and some people just aren't.

At our library we have a person in charge of helping with job search material. She comes in, in the afternoon. She has set up a display board that shows them step by step how to go through workforce. also if the jobs have a webpage specifically for the company where they can go and register she makes that available. She is a great asset to our library.

Beyond Method #3

I really can see us doing mashups for when the city has a activity.

The parade starts at our Walmart but continues down to the Library, and then there are activities in the civic center and recreation center. We could present a map on our website with the activity information and they would then be sure to know where they need to go.

Also if we have classes in our library we can show all the resteraunts in the area.

Wasn't the easiest thing to use as it did give me aother address for the library, but the more I tried it, it was okay.



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Beyond Method #2

As the best option for Librarians I really like Netvibes. I enjoyed seeing what other libraries have done with it and it really seems to be a neat option for some libraries. I like the way you can put all the sources for news together. the different tabs you can give them for the different tools.

Looking at our library patrons I don't know how many would use it. Some find things like this helpful and we have more and more patrons checking our website and facebook every day. while other patrons if they were to log into our computers and see a netvibes or iGoogle page would siply want to know "where their search engine went?" and "why this showed up when they logged into the internet?"

I personally have an igoogle page, don't use it as often as I could, bui I have one. I will be looking into Netvibes though. I really did enjoy it.

Method 11

I enjoyed several different podcasts.

I think that they could be useful to the library. Imagine podcasts that help first time users with different items in the library. (card catolog, computers,etc.)

I must admit I do love podcasts.
There are several that I subscribe to.

Method 12

I enjoyed a number of things about this program. There were a number of the technologies that I used for myself personally. Now I have learned that I can connect them all together. I can save myself time and still have the benefits I had before.
Flicker was interesting. I can see places I may have seen before, but you get another persons perspective on it.

I guess it goes to show that times are a changing and we better be ready to go with the flow.
Hopefully I will always be up for the challenge. This program made it fun and easy to work with my schedule.

I think that something I didn't expect to see was how open people are with certain things. Even though there are security measures it still leaves me a little unnerved.

I really enjoyed the content. It gave me an expansion on some things I already know.
I really did enjoy that it worked on my time frame.

I would love to participate in another program and I really look forward to hearing from you.

Method 5

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elpicoso/4174745312/

I share photos with family and friends, but not on flickr.

I know you can make your photos private. Call me paranoid, I just don't want anything where people can easily hack into it.

I imagine lots of people enjoy this, and I'm not saying there weren't pictures that were very pretty. Just have my doubts that I will use this in the future.