Reflection

Wow, is this really the last exercise?
There's probably a couple of mine that need tweaking, but I'm amazed that I was able to do what I did.
My favorite exercise was probaby #13. I still have de.licio.us on my home computer menu and will probably not only keep it, but add to it. And of course everyone likes YouTube for their funny videos, but there is a lot of educational stuff there also.
It's important to keep up with technology no matter your age. Even if you don't know all the how-to's, you need to know what's available out there. There are a ton of useful things for a library and its communication with its patrons.
Do differently?: don't know, there was an enormous amount of work that went into this program and all those associated with it are to be commended. Keep up the good work on keeping us informed.

Netlibrary

Niceville patrons have access to netlibrary, which is good for research. If I'm not mistaken, there are a lot of non-fiction books on it. We don't own any e-books, nor do any of the other libraries in our Cooperative. But some day-----------
Project Gutenberg is great. One could spend hours "browsing the stacks".
My children download music and books and I now have access to a program that will allow me
to download tv shows to watch. But do I want to do that on my small computer screen?
And I can download music to my computer - yea Grandma!!!!!
Pretty amazing stuff going on in the technology world.

podcasts

http://www.foxnews.com/xmlfeed/rss/



Again, I like news, so I would probably subscribe to a news feed.
However, book review feeds, audiovisual feeds and general news going
on in libraries would be interesting and useful on the library webpage.

Finding Time in the Penn State Libraries

great video for libraries

You tube

You Tube is something that can be very entertaining; but also very personal.
Making videos for everyone to watch world wide doesn't appeal to me. But using it
to show family videos in a secure group is prety awesome.
I also watched a video put out for the Penn State Library showing your way around the
library. There would be several uses to promote various activities in the library.
Well, look at me - I actually got a video over here. Not very clear, but it's there!
Woohoo!!

Web 2.0 Awards

Have set up an account with Newsvine.com, but haven't played with it too much yet.
I like news, so this is of interest to me. It's kind of scary though; as soon as I set up the account, went back to the site and there was Niceville weather on it.
How did they know that with just my e-mail address? Anyhow, will play with it more and edit this later.

Web-based applications

I've created a zooho account and wrote a little on a Google document. However, the site is being contrary and won't let me set the settings to publish to my blog.
Will keep working on that.
http://writer.zoho.com/index.do;jsessionid=157D890C5167587CEC246FE9FD6AAA52