Tagging

I found this quote on tagging on the following blog: blog4educators.blogspot.com/2008/01/tagging.html





"I strongly believe that all good social systems need to serve the individual motive. Tagging works because it strikes a balance between the individual and social. It serves the individual motive of remembering, and forms a ad-hoc social groups around it. If you are designing a tagging system you need to understand how it serves the individual and what sort of social formations it supports."





Tagging is a great way to:

• Share knowledge
• Collaborate across locations
• Leverage knowledge by search once

Twitter and Tweets

One thing about Twitter and Social Networking that I find interesting is how connected you can be with people at all times but I am not sure if I really can see myself using Twitter. However, I can see a lot of uses for Twitter in the day to day operations of Tech support. During the Michael Stephens presentation he mentioned that some Tech Support departments use Twitter for updates and outages. I started to think how we could do that with our updated and outages. For power outages a Tweet could be posted if a location was down and then when they were back up. Also, I could see Twitter as a good way to communicate with Technicians in the field, as they are working on problems they can update in real time. With each thing I am trying to not only see how I can use it in my personal life but also how it could be used at work.

Library Thing

I really like using Library Thing. I spend a lot of time on Amazon looking at books, reading reviews and looking at reviews so I can really see myself using Library Thing. I was adding titles To My Library an am looking forward to using some of the social networking aspects of the site.

Image Generators

So far this is my favorite thing because there are so many fun things you can do with these tools. You can also use them to add a graphic to a presentation, for example the Learn and Play team used the golden egg graphic for a PowerPoint presentation. I just made this graphic for fun:

RSS Feeds in the Library World

Did you know that the library uses RSS feeds? On the really cool Library Tool bar there are RSS feeds for New Items. That is one of my favorite featured on the Library Tool bar because it makes finding new titles so easy. While I was doing this discovery exercise I found that the Cincinnati library uses RSS feeds and has quite a few categories:

http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/feeds/

Just something to think about as Web 2.0 technologies become more prevelant. How can CML use RSS feeds to provide services to our customers?

RSS Feeds

I have to admit that I didn't have a lot of experience with RSS Feeds. I found Bloglines the easiest to use of the tools. I didn't really care for the layout of Syndic 8 but I liked the Blogger Central link on Technorati. I think I have to play with RSS feeds a little bit more to become more comfortable.

Technology Moves Fast

I was thinking about how fast technology changes, as soon as you have something figured out, something better comes along. I don't know why but I was thinking about a friend in high scool that had one of the first VCRs. It was a beta and absolutely huge, but it was so cool to be able to watch unedited movies. Here are some pictures that show the evolution of the VCR.