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.

thing 17

Expanding Library Services & Content With New Technologies

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This is the presentation I found and liked.  We could do many informational presentation for our patron using this concept.

Winner

We had our first winner today for Library Lovers Month.  We gave away the tickets to the symphany at First Baptist Church In Meritt Island.  The young girl who won was very excited.

Thing 16

Google docs seems to be the same as Microsoft Word.  I was able to find the functions I use the most with out any difficulty.

Senior OutReach

Today we are doing an out reach to our Senior Center.  We will be giving away free books and candy.  We will also be telling them about all the great services we offer at the libraries.

Snapshot / Public Library Lovers Month

Yesterday was Snapshot - A Day in the Life of a Public Library.  We had our Genealogy volunteers assisting patrons and a childrens craft program.  We had a lot more people leave comments than I expected.  I took pictures and assisted with the Craft program.  I have been getting ready for Public Library Lovers Month.  We have Tim Dorsey coming, an outreach at the Senior Center, a puppet show and an adult craft.  I am doing the craft and designing al of the signs, bookmarks and posters.  I will also be doing the Senior Center event with Pam.

Thing 15

I played around with the widgets moving, adding and deleting them.  I have an account with cozie that I use as a kinda online journal/calender.  I enjoy using it a lot.  If I was attached to my home computer more I might find using a calender program more useful.

Thing 14

I looked at a couple of the sites.  I found most of the free e books were non fiction or classics.  I chose to search for newer titles.  Google had a nice easy page to navigate.  Downside to their site was it was a little hard to dind out what formats they supported.  Currently the support Sony Reader, Kindel , Android, I Phone and Ipads.  I have see e books listed when I use amazon looking for titles for the library. 


http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=9Ddo9RYEZ-UC&as_brr=5&source=webstore_bookcard

thing 13

I can not say that I enjoyed this THING.  I found that alot of the podcasts were blocked.  I was able to find a news one.  It is the same as listening to a book on audio to me.  I started out at podcast.com and had no luck so I tried to google podcast and different subjects.  Finally I gave up and went to mediafly and listen to a podcast on CNN.  I will try at home and see if I have better luck.  If I was using just to listen then they would be nice but I like to a video to go with it.

Gadgets

Today I played with adding gadgets to my blog.  I tried to play with html codes for templets but, did not get it right.  I will continue to play and see what else I can learn.

Happy New Year

I am hoping to do better with utilizing my blog more efficiently.  I set up the Tim Dorsey Display.  He will be here Feb. 3, 2011.