Final Thoughts

I really enjoyed the program and think all employees should have to take the program.  In order to assist our Patrons we ourselves must be up to date on all kinds of new and emerging technologies.  We can pass this knowledge along and make ourselves more useful.  I thought I was pretty 2.0 suave and found I needed to learn a few "things."  I believe the knowledge I gained from this experience will assist me in both my work and personal life.

Thing 23

 I searched the Health and Wellness Resource Center (Gale) for PCOS also know as Polycystic ovary syndrome, which I have.  It was easy to get results.  I did notice that most of the databases are from Gale.  It wouls assist patrons in finding documentation on most subjects.  It would be great for doing research papers.

Thing 22

I started an account at Library Thing.  It was easy to set up and once I got started it was hard to stop.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fairey101

Thing 21

I always wanted an avatar but did not how to make one.  I used Meez.  It was not hard to do but I did have to creat an acct inorder for the right click save to work and it only worked in edit profile.  I have a second life acct. but do not use it much.  I got it to interact with my daughter.

Thing 20

I find it very difficult to remember all my passwords and to be able to change the regularly.  I under stand the need to keep my things private and especially for banking etc.

Thing 19

I used the following search engines,  Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing and  metacrawler, ixquick,  zapmeta, and Yometa.  I did a specific search and all of them but Yometa came up with the same top 2 results.  I did a search that was a little more non specific and did not find using the later search engines as easy to navigate.  I love word clouds etc but could not use Yometa.  I like my regular search engines.  Google gets to keep me.

thing 18

I currently use google images, groups and Picasa in my everyday uses.  I use images the most.  I put in a topic and I can find pictures of it.  I sometimes find picture rather than web descriptions easier to navigate when I am look for craft and such.  I belong to a few different groups.  I am able to keep in touch with people and talk to the group an the topics that matter to us.  We can share pictures files and have polls.  I find both to be very helpful as well as useful.