Event Manager

I loved these tools - particularly Doodle. It would be a great way to efficiently organise meetings for a group of people, without endless e-mails. I also liked the Google calendar, which I have set up for myself.

Productivity: more ways with RSS

I really enjoyed this section and found it very useful. I have a google reader that I don't check as much as I'd like and when I do there are sometimes just too many articles to read through. The filters are great in making the information sent to your reader much more specific and personal.

I also set up a couple of alerts for "nowra libraries" and "shoalhaven libraries" and it was interesting, and heartening, to see where we've been mentioned.

Nings

I have just joined Library 2.0 and am waiting to hear from the administrator.

I love Mosman Readers - what a great idea. I think it's a fantastic tool for creating a library community for those who maybe aren't always able to access the library physically. I like the idea of reading others book reviews and it's also a great area to find out about what's happening at the library.

I will join some other networks once I hear back from the Library 2.0 administrator.

Evaluation

I found this an interesting week as it's great to see that with free tools you are able to look at usage of your sites, blogs, etc ... and also gain insight into how to make improvements.

I have set up a google feedburner to look at statistics for my blog - not suprisingly no followers, but what I expected. In a work environment though these would all be useful tools. Click here to see my feedburner results!

Delicious

I have been using Delicious quite a lot in recent months as a handy reference tool for my job. Every time I handle a reference query and find a particular good website (making sure I've checked authenticity, currency, accuracy and such) I add it to my delicious page and tag it. I have also created tag bundles that put together web resources on the same topic. I have found it really useful, much more so than 'Favorites' on IE as I'm able to assign several tags and also write a short description highlighting the main resources on the website. I have also given out the address so other staff at the library can access it and add to it. I think it's a great tool.

I don't use any of the other tools - I probably should explore them more - but love it as a really handy reference resource. If you want to check it out, click here.

I've added the tagroll text here so it will be interesting to see if it works?!?!

Twitter

This is Week 2 and it's Twitter Week. I have set up a Twitter account - http://twitter.com/caparoza - but must admit that I doubt it will get much use. I am following a couple of libraries, but I'm not sure that it's very useful for me. Most of my friends do not have Twitter accounts, so I really have no need to use this tool.

I think for libraries it can be a great tool, Mosman are doing a great job with theirs.

Now I have a e-mail (both work and private), a Twitter account, a blog and have a Google Reader page set up - there just seem to be so many places to check. I'm sure that there must be a way to combine all of these so I'm able to look in just one spot to see what's happening in all of these??!??!

Well, it's been nearly a year to the day since I last updated this blog! I have in the meantime though created another blog, but this was for one of my subjects in my information studies course that I'm following at Charles Sturt University. I enjoyed having the opportunity to use this technology more.

I haven't really thought about adding to my blog for a number of reasons. Firstly I don't have as much time as I like to play around with social software, but I suppose more importantly I don't have the personal desire. For me these tools are more useful in the context of the library where I work and how we can exploit them to reach more of our users.

I don't really read many other blogs either, although I do look at some of the library based blogs, such as LibraryCrunch and I have never made a comment on anyone's blog - although do enjoy reading comments from others.

Looking forward to revisiting these technologies again and discovering new ones.