technology word web/meanings

Hi Doris,
What do you think of the definitions in this link?
http://www.webopedia.com/Web_2_0/

All about on line applications

The availability and use of online productivity web-based applications(eg: word processing and spreadsheets) has exploded over the past two years.
These powerful applications provide users with the ability to create and share documents over the internet without the need of installed desktop applications.
Some experts speculate that this emerging trend may mean the death to Microsoft Office and other software-based productivity tools, while others think web-based applications have their place, but not in the office.
But no matter which side of the office suite platform you side with, on this both sides seem to agree; web-based applications have their place.One large benefit to web-based applications it that they eliminate the need to worry about different software versions or file types as you email documents or move from PC to PC.
Another bonus is that they easily accommodate collaboration by allowing multiple users to edit the same file (with versioning) and provide users the ability to easily save and convert documents as multiple file types (including HTML and pdf).
And, you can even use many of these tools, such as Zoho Writer and Google Docs and spreadsheets to author and publish posts to your blog.
It’s this type of integration with other web 2.0 tools that also makes web-based apps so appealing.For this discovery exercise, participants are asked to take a look at a web-based word processing tool called Zoho Writer, create a simple document and then document your discoveries in your blog. If you're up to the challenge, you might even export your document as an HTML file or publish it through Zoho to your blog.With Zoho and web-based applications, the possibilities are endless.

I will recommend these on line applications to our borrowers.

Zoho Writer template/just playing

Zoho Writer Templates
This is a place where you can find readymade templates for your use. Whoever you are - job seeker, businessman, accountant, designer, salesman, marketer, home user - you can find a template which you can use to build your document on. And what's more, you can upload your templates here too - if you are an expert in your area of interest and have useful templates to share with others, please feel free to do so. "EXCELLENT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING JOBS"

IT Resume
Resume Cover Letter
Booklet
Speech Outline
Student Progress Report

You can also use Zoho writer as a "Word Processing", it tells you how below:

Zoho Plug-In for MS OfficeThe "Zoho Plug-in for Microsoft Office" bridges the gap between online and offline office productivity. Users task has been simplified much more with the fact that they have a choice to work offline on their documents and spreadsheets with Microsoft Word/Excel and still have these changes reflected directly online in their Zoho account (Writer/Sheet). The new plug-in enables users to :
Create, edit and save their documents & spreadsheets directly to Zoho Writer/Sheet from within Microsoft Word/Excel.
Alternatively, users can open and edit their Zoho documents & spreadsheets in Microsoft Word/Excel and save it back to their respective Zoho services (Writer/Sheet).
Installation and UseUsers can download the Zoho plug-in here. As with all other windows application, the file name 'zohoplugin.exe' will be saved to your preferred location on your local machine. Installation is pretty simple, please remember to close all your MS Office applications before you install this plug-in. After the initial check is over, double click on the 'zohoplugin.exe' file to begin the installation process. A picture they say is worth a thousand words and with all them arranged in a slide show using Zoho Show is certainly worth a million.

23 The end

At the beginning i found it very difficult to understang, there were many words in terminology that i have never heard before, but as the time continued i started to enjoy and applying some computer training that i had in the past (cut and paste, but not many many).

What i really enjoyed the most was Wickis. I can see that it won't be very difficult to pply this concept in the future. It is easy to understand and as a library officer i like share knowledge, get involved with ideas and seeking help if i needed the most. If you want to fulfill something in life or at work, your enthusiasm and dedication must be endless and you will achieve your goals.

I know that there is a very high porcentaje of our borrowers who don't want to apply or hear the word Technology, and we musn't forget that we as a human being like to interact with people rather then pressing a button.

Nevertheless we can not ignore the word of technology...it is the future in our libraries.

I would like to thank my organization who gave the opportunity to do this training, The State Library and also the staff of Yarra Plenty for their great effort an time consuming to get this training in place.

Good Bye and thank you all

Friendly

just playing before the final comment

So far i have enjoyed a lot from this training and the more i get into it, the easier it gets, i think i will miss it, but nevertheless i hope we can use part of this training in our organization. It would be great.

eAudiobooks

My observation in this site is that you can get access to endless websites related to only Audiobooks.
In the right-hand side there are ADDS BY GOOGLE for example:

BOOKS IS ENGLISH FOR FREE

AUSSIE SPEEDING FINES, FREE DOWNLODABLE EBOOKS, YOUR OWN EBOOK WEBSITE,

DOWNLOAD FREE-BOOK

! What a great training!!!!!!, unfortunately i couldn't have more time to see the endless information that is out there for discovery, but my consolation is that PRACTICE IS THE LEADER OF LEARNING THE WONDERFULL WORD OF TECHNOLOGY.

discovering new site in Exercise # 22

In this site you can find any book but it is all about children.

World Public Library Collection

Children's Literature Collection
Compiled from scans of original image rich children's books. The World Public Library Children's Literature Collection is a selected list of the most popular children's books of all times. We hope you and your family enjoy the collection.
View Complete Title Index (1282 PDF eBooks)





Adventures of Sonny Bear
Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp
Alice in Wonderland



Around The Week
Around The World
Beautiful Book



Beauty Beast and Other

#22 Audiobooks (or "The end is in sight")

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I'm surprised of how many audiobooks you can get access through this page and as the population is getting older, there would be a lot of disabled and elderly people who can get the fenefits of this wonderful site.

These are currently free to access for the month of July. Join the World Public Library and view all of the World eBook Fair titles all year long.


Advanced Search Browse Collections
• Full Text Search of 500,000+ PDF eBook Titles in 100+ Languages. • Membership Required for Access to eBooks.
World eBook Fair: July 4 th to August 4th
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620,000 Free eBooks + ~110,000 Commercial eBooks
Grand Total about 3/4 Million Total eBook Files Available
eBooks in over 100 Different Languages!
Created by Contributions from 150+ eLibraries Around the World
Last year 1,000 newspapers carried this story when 1/3 million eBooks were offered free of charge at The First World eBook Fair.
This year there will be twice as many eBooks!!!
Last year The World eBook Fair gave away about 1 million eBooks a day for 30 days between July 4 and August 4.

Podcasting exercise #21

podcast

favorites
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Podcasts
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Bloglines and Ask.com
Create a personal Bloglines page loaded with the freshest news about the things you love.


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share your favorites with friends
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your own blog with easy one-click tools

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Find new blogs
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What People Are Saying
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More buzz

What is Podcasting, Exercise #21

I have added our own logo of my organization.

What is Podcasting?
Think of a podcast as a radio show. Each show consists of a series of individual episodes that you can listen to how you want — on your PC, using your MP3 player, or with just a web browser. If you've never listened to podcasts, you're in for a treat. Sports, comedy, movies, food, politics, music, books, speeches, walking tours, whatever — you name the topic and you'll find podcasts about it. Not only do you have incredible choice, you can listen whenever and wherever you want.

#21 Podcasts Smodcasts

The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS.


Description
Price
Qty.
Subtotal
Options
The New Oxford American Dictionary, hardback, 9780195170771, I999
$60.00

$60.00
remove
Subtotal:
$60.00

Estimated Tax (will be based on billing address):
$0.00

Shipping To:
United States International

Shipping Charges:
$5.25

Total:
$65.25


As you can see, in this site you can purchase any item and send it overseas or in your own country and in the above information it provides Description, price, Qty and the price.

In this case the purchase is the item called "The new Oxford American Dictionay"

Pruni on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Pruni on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

I'm playing with flicker only

#20 You too can You Tube

What i can see is that you can upload any video by creating your own Tube account.

Technology is advancing too quickly and i must comment that this training has open my eyes now and for the future.

Exercise No 20

YouTube - WITCH FIRE SAN DIEGO


I'm just playing with this tube and i realize that fires has been devastating in America last week.

#19 Discovering Web 2.0 tools

SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards - Just the Winners

I didn't like the competition that exist between different tools, when infact it doesn't matter whether you choose Technorati or Library Things, etc, each and anyone of these pages will be useful for different proyects or ideas for your library.

One of the pages that is very useful for me as a Library Officer would be Library Things because it is whole about books. In these page you can connect with people who read the same things, get recommendation, you can tag your books, etc. etc. I would certanly recommend this site for our library but you have to read and explore this page to realize the enormous information that can give you to apply to your libary.

Playing with activity N0 18

Google Docs

Weekly Stats - Google Docs

Weekly Stats - Google Docs

Untitled spreadsheet - Google Docs

Untitled spreadsheet - Google Docs

Picasa Web Albums - Doris.Pereira

Picasa Web Albums - Doris.Pereira

sightseeing

Picasa Web Albums - Doris.Pereira

Melbourne weddings, wedding reception melbourne, corporate events, function, melbourne rivers cruise, restaurant dinner cruise yarra, restaurants

Melbourne weddings, wedding reception melbourne, corporate events, function, melbourne rivers cruise, restaurant dinner cruise yarra, restaurants

I live in Victoria ans i'm soon having holidays and i found this page very helfull. What a great source of information.

Acitivity # 18

OzLeisure.com.au : Your guide to Australian holiday and leisure activities

I'm playing with this page because Leisure is part of dayly activities which enable us to enjoy life

# 17 Playing around with PB wiki

It is amazing how many wikis there are there and as you can see i have copy and paste this wonderful wiki who i will use and learn a lot from it by reading and trying to use right now for one simple reason "HOW TO MAKE BETTER IN YOUR LIBRARY"

Note: I have also added my blog in "favorite blogs" where i could see so many people out there with their own blog where you can also learn from them.

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Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.
If you've done something at your library that you consider a success, please write about it in the wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. If you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, add them to the wiki. And if you know of a librarian or a library that is doing something great, feel free to include information or links to it. Basically, if you know of anything that might be useful to other librarians (including useful websites), this is the place to put it. I hope this wiki will be a venue where people can share ideas with one another and where librarians can learn to replicate the successes of other libraries.
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If you add a new category, please add it to this list on the main page so people can easily find it. You can also add new pages off of the pages in each category (subpages). For example, if you want to go into depth with a "success story" about gaming, you can create another page for the details on the success story and just put a little teaser or title on the gaming page (with a link).
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Recent Changes Page
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Guidelines for Wiki Use
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Communications - Internal and External
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Project Planning and Development
Strategy, Vision, and Focus
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Challenges to Displays, Exhibits, Meeting Room Use, Materials
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Unattended Children/Unattended Adults in Children's Areas
Library Cards for People in Transitional Housing
Rules of Conduct/Patron Behavior
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Selecting Materials for Libraries
Organizing Library Collections
Weeding Library Collections
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Conferences and Continuing Education Opportunities
Keeping Up With the Profession
Looking for a Job
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Self-Promotion Tips for New Librarians
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[edit] Programming
Programs for Adults
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Definition
Book Discussion Group Resources
Leading book groups
Recommending books
Writing Reviews for Open WorldCat
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Online Reference (IM, Web-based, etc.)
Free Online Reference Resources
Future of Reference Service
Information Literacy
Online Tutorials
Radical Reference
Subject Guides
Traditional Reference Services
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Physical Delivery or Courier Services
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Branding
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Library Services in Schools
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OPACs
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Accessibility - general hardware and software technologies and information (not Web-specific)
Grants for Technology Projects
Free/Open Source Software
PLA TechNotes
Providing Technology to Patrons (computers, wifi, iPods, etc.)
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Self Checkout
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Virtual Worlds
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Web Tips and Tricks
Website Design
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Management of the WSF Information

#16 So what's in a Wiki

Discovery Exercise

SJCPL ( St Joseph County Public library home page)

This Wiki shows me what is available in the library mentioned above. It contained subject guides to their borrowers and it also gives the opportunity to talk to the library where you can leave feedback, comments, opinion or even directly email or IM with librarians, all whta you need is to follow the linkes and "ADD YOUR COMMENT"
There are many links within the subjects where you can get the information that you need to be able to satisfied your borrowers. On the left hand side of this page you can navigatesearch or you can access the toolbox.

BOOKLOVERS WIKI (Princeton Public Lbrary)

This is a very interesting page to read. It gives you the option to leave your comment about a book that you have read "CAN YOU IMAGEN HOW LONG A BORROWER WILL SPEND TO READ THROUGH THIS WONDEFULL WIKI?" I think anyone would go for the 5 star cataloguing, and so on....

I can personally spend endless time to gain lots of knowledge and information to pass to my borrowers. It is fascinating.

LIBRARY SUCCESS: (A best practices wiki)

As a libray officer i can fully recomend to read this wiki, because by working in any organization it is all about ideas, enthusiam, and commited to your job

This wiki has been created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information to all types of librarians. It does reflect the enthusiasm of each individual or librarian to enrich their own library by constantly thinking ahead and "HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER FOR OUR OWN BORROWERS concequently excellency in Customer Service.

Note: If you have provided with an idea to your library and has been a success, you can write to this wiki for a general information to everyone. It is a wonderful source of sharing ideas and knowledge wich contributes TEAM WORK.

#16 So what's a Wiki?

"A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content."

About Web. 2.0 learning

I have copy and paste so i can refer whenever i have time to read all this information for my own knowledge. I have realized that even though i'm doing this training, PRACTICE IS THE LEADING FOR SUCCESS and i hope we have the opportunity to practice in the near future otherwise at least we know what is out there for us to use in our jobs and satisface and produce excellency in customer service.

Geelong Regional Library Learning 2.0 Activities

Geelong Regional Library Learning 2.0 Activities: "Library 2.0 is a term used to describe a new set of concepts for developing and delivering library services. The name, as you may guess, is an extension of Web2.0 and shares many of its same philosophies and concepts including harnessing the user in both design and implementation of services, embracing constant change as a development cycle over the traditional notion of upgrades, and reworking library services to meet the users in their space, as opposed to ours (libraries). Many have argued that the notion of Library 2.0 is more than just a term used to describe concepts that merely revolve around the use of technology; it also a term that can be used to describe both physical and mindset changes that are occurring within libraries to make our spaces and services more user-centric and inviting. Others within the profession have asserted that libraries have always been 2.0: collaborative, customer friendly and welcoming. But no matter which side of the debate proponents fall, both sides agree that libraries of tomorrow, even five or ten years from now, will look substantially different from libraries today."

Related to No 15

I just copy and paste this information because it is very important for my own knowledge in the near future.

To better bibliographic services
Expose, expand, extend metadata using Web 2.0
The Web 2.0 philosophy points the way to a number of significant ways library services can and should change.
Library bibliographic services grew up at various points in time, each aimed at different purposes, and they do not interoperate effectively. Libraries offer local catalogs, union catalogs, e-resource management systems, abstracting and indexing databases, institutional repositories, and local digital library collections. Federated searching needs to pull data from all these separate silos and combine resources in new and valuable ways for users.
Package and push metadata Exposing our metadata to initiatives like the Open WorldCat Project can make resources discoverable in many more settings, well beyond local online catalogs that were the original destination for the metadata. Done thoughtfully, with the advocacy and coordination of a bibliographic utility, such as OCLC, we can avoid the duplication of records in search result displays that would occur if every consortium were acting individually. Through RSS feeds, libraries can package and push their content to users’ preferred working places. The data can be customized and offered for a wide variety of parameters, including classification ranges, allowing users to compile and subscribe to the sources they find most useful.
A discovery tool like the new Endeca-based NC State catalog enriches the user’s experience by offering the ability to choose from numerous ways to navigate, including the browsing of facets that are of interest to them. Tracking of bibliographic relationships through such means as FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) is another means of clustering results in ways that are immensely helpful to users.
Broaden relevance ranking Relevance ranking techniques should be driven by much more than the mere prevalence of keywords in the bibliographic record and be fed by a wider range of metadata, such as circulation activity, placement of materials on class reserve lists, sales data, and clicks to download, print, and capture citations.
Adopt Web features The features of Amazon and Google of interest to students and scholars ought to be incorporated into the services libraries make available. Libraries should welcome the submission of reviews, assignment of keywords (“tagging”), addition of scholarly commentary, and other forms of user participation.
Expand delivery The range of fulfillment options libraries present their users should extend beyond the options managed and under the control of individual institutions or consortiums. User-initiated services like renewal, recalls, and interlibrary loan requests should be complemented by views into the campus bookstore’s inventory, options to purchase from an online bookseller, displays of availability in any geographically proximate library, opportunities to see and select terms for expedited delivery, etc. User convenience warrants the provision of a comprehensive menu of choices in a single place.
Streamline metadata creation Libraries have a long history of collaborating on cataloging. This should be extended to coordinated multi-institutional activity, perhaps even beyond the library sector. The systematic sharing of bibliographic data across institutions can lead to the automatic sharing of enhancements and freeing up of resources to put more material under bibliographic control. If there is similarity in the uses made of bibliographic descriptions by publishers, vendors, and libraries for their inventories, and if there is significant overlap among needed data elements, then it makes a lot of sense to pursue a single metadata creation effort whose results we all can use.
Libraries should get much greater mileage out of the metadata they create. For example, if geographic names embedded in the middle of subject headings are mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates, it becomes possible to present users with graphical means of searching by place, new ways of easily asking for materials about nearby places, and hierarchical browsing by place.
Expanding and enriching metadata will give libraries a competitive advantage and will support the bibliographic services of the future.

John Riemer [OCLC]

John Riemer [OCLC]

Chip Nilges.htm [OCLC]

Chip Nilges.htm [OCLC]

Michael Stephens.htm [OCLC]

Michael Stephens.htm [OCLC]

#15 on Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

I have decide to copy and paste for me to read another time. It is too complicate for me to understand i hope it worked..we'll see.
Away from the “icebergs”
Row your library boat into the Web 2.0 environment
I don’t think there’s any question that we librarians are working hard, with the best intentions, to serve our patrons well in a world that has changed dramatically in the last decade. If the profession is a boat, then I think we’re all rowing pretty heroically. But I’m not sure we’re paying enough attention to the potential disasters that lie in our current path. In particular, there are three “icebergs” that I believe pose significant threats to our future success. All are remnants of a bygone information age, practices and attitudes that no longer make sense but which we have difficulty letting go. Our patrons have no such qualms, of course, as the emergence of Web 2.0 demonstrates. The “icebergs” that I see threatening our progress, indeed our existence, are these:
The “just in case” collection Crazy as this may sound, the time has come for us to look skeptically at the very idea of a library “collection.” Building a comprehensive collection of materials that anticipates the user’s every need (without providing wastefully where no need exists) has always been problematic, but it was an approach that made sense when information was available only in print formats, and was therefore difficult, expensive and slow to distribute. But it no longer makes sense to collect information products as if they were hard to get. They aren’t. In fact, it may no longer make sense to “collect” in the traditional sense at all. In my library, we’ve seen a 55 percent drop in circulation rates over the past twelve years, making it harder and harder to justify the continued buildup of a large “just in case” print collection. As a Web 2.0 reality continues to emerge and develop, our patrons will expect access to everything – digital collections of journals, books, blogs, podcasts, etc. You think they can’t have everything? Think again. This may be our great opportunity.
Reliance on user education Libraries are poorly equipped and insufficiently staffed for teaching. Ask yourself what your patron-to-librarian ratio is (at the University of Nevada it’s about 680 to 1) and then ask yourself how you’re going to train all those patrons. We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning. Obviously, we’ll help and educate patrons when we can, and when they want us to, and the more we can integrate our services with local curricula, the better. But if our services can’t be used without training, then it’s the services that need to be fixed—not our patrons. One-button commands, such as Flickr’s “Blog This,” and easy-to-use programs like Google Page Creator, offer promising models for this kind of user-centric service.
The “come to us” model of library service There was a time, not very long ago, when libraries exercised something close to monopoly power in the information marketplace. During the print era, if you wanted access to pricey indexes or a collection of scholarly journals, you had no choice but to make a trip to the library. It wasn’t a good system, but it worked. Sort of. That is to say, it worked moderately well for those privileged with access to a good library. In the post-print era, libraries no longer have the monopoly power that they had in the days before the Internet. We have to be a bit more humble in the current environment, and find new ways to bring our services to patrons rather than insisting that they come to us—whether physically or virtually. At a minimum, this means placing library services and content in the user’s preferred environment (i.e., the Web); even better, it means integrating our services into their daily patterns of work, study and play.
No profession can survive if it throws its core principles and values overboard in response to every shift in the zeitgeist. However, it can be equally disastrous when a profession fails to acknowledge and adapt to radical, fundamental change in the marketplace it serves. At this point in time, our profession is far closer to the latter type of disaster than it is to the former. We need to shift direction, and we can’t wait for the big ship of our profession to change course first. It’s going to have to happen one library—one little boat—at a time.
Web 2.0 Into a new world of librarianship

Rick Anderson.htm [OCLC]

Rick Anderson.htm [OCLC]

#13 Tagging folksomonies and social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I can be reading all day about different comments for so many people about this page. There is a no end about technology.

del.icio.us/url/ecfc1a0f59dfc98cda6719233c7df27b

del.icio.us/url/ecfc1a0f59dfc98cda6719233c7df27b

Another observation that i could notice in this page, is that people has been able to recomend and to give new ideas for programing.

del.icio.us/url/ecfc1a0f59dfc98cda6719233c7df27b

del.icio.us/url/ecfc1a0f59dfc98cda6719233c7df27b

Technorati

#13 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
Listen to this podcast [3:53]-->powered by ODEOTagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & posts).
Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.In the past few weeks, we’ve already explored a few sites – Flickr and LibraryThing to name two --that allow users to take advantage of tagging.
This week, in addition to exploring Technorati tagging, we want to also take a look at a popular social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us (keyed in as http://del.icio.us/)Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to categorize your bookmarks.Many users find that the real power of Del.icio.us is in the social network aspect, which allows you to see how other users have tagged similar links and also discover other websites that may be of interest to you.
You can think of it as peering into another users’ filing cabinet, but with this powerful bookmarking tool each user's filing cabinet helps to build an expansive knowledge network

taging

is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, pictures & posts).
Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines (i.e.Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want.

PLCMCL2

I,m playing and discovering many resoursces that you have chosen for us to see and as i have said in other activities that i have explored it is fantastic what is out there for future learning.

Rollyo: Dashboard

Rollyo: Dashboard

Rollyo: About Rollyo

Rollyo: About Rollyo

Rollyo: Searchroll Added

Rollyo: Searchroll Added

#12 Roll your own search engine with Rollyo

Rollyo: Searchroll AddedRollyo allows you to create your own search tool for just the websites you know and trust.Take a look at some of these search rolls that have already been created:

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

LibraryThing Catalog your books online
I search for some titles and authors.

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

LibraryThing Catalog your books online

I hope it worked

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

LibraryThing Catalog your books online

LibraryThing

LibraryThing I can really stay in the computer for hours looking in some links to know more about this wondefull world of technology
This tool will be extremelly useful at work one day and I hope is not far away.

Library thing

I hope this work. I'm just learning about it.

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genreflect.jpg (image)

#10 Play around with Image generators

Geelong Regional Library Learning 2.0 Activities I can simple right click and send this to my blog.

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apollo-moon-mission_www-txt2pic-com.jpg (image)

Geelong Regional Library Learning 2.0 Activities

Geelong Regional Library Learning 2.0 Activities

playing with Feedster

I'm marketing Geelong by showing hotels where you can stay and discover Geelong.

It is beautiful city.

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

#9 Findings Feeds

It is incredible how i can play and finding some many links to any news around the world or if i want to get any information about libraries around the world. In this case i found news about Geelong, the city where i live, by simple going to the feedster an typing any subject i want to know about it.
I can see know that it will be very useful in the future of our libraries in terms of any information that we would like to offer to our patrons.

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

Geelong hotels - Geelong - Reservations and Reviews

Week 4/ RSS & newsreaders

It has been very confusing for me but at least i was able to set up my blogline account and to subscribe to different feeds.

Sunset: Get sunset and sunrise times for any location on Earth

Sunset: Get sunset and sunrise times for any location on Earth

I'm playing with this program, and it is exiting how i'm finding too many things to try out.

Trading Card Maker: Create a customized trading card from your digital photographs

Trading Card Maker: Create a customized trading card from your digital photographs

Flicker fun

Flicker # 6 Mushup

Mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single tool. can use cartography data from Google maps, etc. The term mashups referred to the practice in pop music of producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces

Flicker # 5

Flicker is one of the best on line photo management of the world. It helps you to upload, organize , share photos with your friends, make stuff such as photo album, keep intouch with your friends.,etc.

please tell me whether this is correct

Hello, i don't know whether i will remember all what i have typed.