LibraryThing

Now I am in heaven. LibraryThing has given access to so many books and I can also look at other like-minded folks lists to check out other relevant books. This would be a handy tool to add to our Libary's online catalogue. It would assist with searching for new books by similar authors or on similar subjects - tags is a very simple tool, just click on the tag to find books on that topic. I can even add a widget that will display titles I have in my catalogue.

del.icio.us

Gosh, it just seems the technology out there gets better - to have learned about del.icio.us has allowed me to organise my bookmarks in a whole new way. Using this social bookmarking site, I can save bookmarks to a central site which I can access from any computer, anywhere! I also get the benefit of being able to see what others are bookmarking and can access new and relevant material from this one central point. It just makes the whole process much more orderly and efficient. Librarians can use this site as a collaborative online reference point, especially those of us going through the amalgamation process in Qld. It is exciting times and to be able to reference others bookmarks on similar topics from just one site is just so time saving and practical. I am also studying Visual Arts - must say I got lost in time checking out just what is here relating to my field of interest, saves me reinventing the wheel so to speak. I am so appreciative of having the opportunity to discover all this great technology and being able to apply it to my own special circumstances, both at home and hopefully, soon at work too.

challenging

RSS has been more of a challenge for me to use. Mainly because I don't allow a lot of time to check on bloglines. However, I can see the benefit of being able to choose particular bloglines to access quickly. Having them available at the click of the mouse is very handy. The time consuming part is that there is so many interesting ones to choose from and I simply doodle along looking at this and that and could spend most of my life reading all these interesting things. Do I really need to know all this information? The answer for me is no. But I do like to have the choice. From this exercise I have added 7 feeds to keep a tab on, and have found the OPAL training & Learning 2.0: 23 things you can do to become web 2.0 savy pretty interesting and above all useful.