Wiki Sandbox

After being accepted as being able to edit this page, it was surprisingly easy to add my entries. This was my first experience with editing a wiki, so I was surprised to get it done without any confusion or difficulties. I added my picks of The Office and Heroes to the favorite tv show page and the name of my blog to the favorite blogs page.

Wiki use at the Library

I watched the online wiki tutorial on the Learn and Play blog and that got me thinking about some other ways that these could be useful to our organization. One thing I could see, is having a 20/20 vision wiki and it would act much like all of the branch community meeting we have been having. This would be most useful for our customers that are computer saavy but would also be able to be edited by staff for those who don't have the time/ability to do this themeselves.
On top of this, I could see each branch having a wiki of their own so that comments and suggestions could be made about anything such as building changes, programs, staffing needs, services, and the system in general. I could certainly see this as being a valuable resource for the library as well as for customers to feel like their voices are being heard.

del.icio.us

Before I went to and got signed up for this site, I had NO I had absolutely no idea what it was about. When I looked at it finally, I didn't really see how useful an "online social bookmarking" tool would be... Now, I got signed up and actually got to look at some of the bookmarks and what this site has to offer and it's really intriguing and useful. Even in the little bit of time that I checked the site out after signing up, I found some bookmarks of things that I thought were cool/interesting.
This could be especially useful for people who do not own their own computer or move around to different computers often and they still have some websites or links that they need to access often or have with them on the go!:-)

Twitter

I think this website is simply great! :-) It was unbelievably easy to sign up for and get started with its step by step process. So before I knew it, my profile was up and running and I was submitting my first couple of "tweets". I can even update it from my cell phone either by using text messages or mobile internet, which is remarkably convenient and helpful!
I did just get signed up though, and nobody I know uses it so I'm sending a call out to ALL CML employees, search for me as jon_c2003 or just click here and see what I'm up to every once in a while!:-) Thanks all, until next time...

LibraryThing

I took a look at this website today and got an acount to check out what it's like. I can see how somthing like this might be used, however I also think that there are many improvements that could be made. Adding books that you've read is a pretty simple process and a good way to keep track of what you've read or would like to read in the future. One thing that I would have like to have see, and that I expect from anything with "library" in the title, is a way to get quick and easy suggestions of books to read. It's also not the most visually appealing site i've seen but meh, that's less important.

Online Image Generator

Well, I took a run at working with an online image generator URL: logos.petrucci.ch/ and attempted to my a smiley in the likeness of me:-) And here he is:

Now, I do realize how bad he looks (huge understatement) but he's my own creation and that's all that matter, lol. But really, though I am nowhere near an artist, I could certainly see how a generator like this could be useful for many people. Good learning experience for me because I had no idea these existed before this excercise.

RSS Feeds

I've officially had my first experience with RSS feeds and I'm not at all disappointed! This is a very convenient way to keep up of things you would check regularly (with the perk of having it all in one spot!). I can certainly see the benefit of subscribing to and keeping up with something like this. Though I personally might find it hard to remember to check it very frequently, lol. A great idea and a useful too none-the-less!:-)
There is this one library related feed that I subscribed to called "Library Stuff" that I found very informative and useful. Not to mention relevant to the things that we're doing here at CML, and that's always good;-) I encourage anyone who's interested to check it out.