Del.icio.us

Very useful site for saving your favourite websites and the ability to keep viewing by others private or share is a good feature. The advantage of this site is you can access you favourite websites no matter where you are, no remembering the web address or the need to save to a thumb drive!!
For research, it could a resourceful tool for colleagues to share useful reserach websites and for teachers providing information for relevant websites to their students.

Making use of web 2.0 technologies and our library

Web 2.0 technologies and our library:

Keeping up to date with relevant  and current information is a great way our library is providing information and pictures  to staff, students and the general public with the computer age we live in, where we expect information access 24x7.
Maybe the service could be advertised more widely to library clients to promote web service that we provide - maybe training sessions could organised to inform of  the Library blog, RSS feed etc and ways of using the library catalogue to suit their needs ie adding tags, creating own virtual reading shelf etc

LibraryThing

 LibraryThing Advantage:
1) The ability to keep track of your own book collection online and find earlier/later works by the chosen author
2) The ability to find local libraries and bookstores where I can locate my chosen material
3) Online chat groups and other peoples opinions could be useful

 LibraryThing Disadvantage:
 1) Time consuming
 2) Another log in/password to remember - to many sites require you to sign in and give out details - at least this site doesn't ask for your email address



http://www.librarything.com/catalog/mgw463

http://www.fototrix.com

My Sweetpea Reneee

RSS Feeds

This is great service have all your favourite sites in one location. Makes keeping up to date with your favourite sites easy.

New Technology

Everyday there seems to be some new advancement towards  technological development. These days if don't have a computer at home you are considered behind the times. According the 2008/09 Australian Bureau of Statistics "72% of Australian households had home internet access and 78% of households had access to a computer. Between 1998 to 2008-09, household access to the internet at home has more than quadrupled from 16% to 72%, while access to computers has increased from 44% to 78%."
My mother, who is in her mid 60's, has recently purchased a laptop, as she was feeling not having access to the internet disadvantaged her somehow. In the 3 months she has had the computer I've had 2 emails - trying to get her to reply and I usually get a phone call - still hasn't quite got the concept of communication via email!!

With all that is available online, onlinechat programmes, social networking etc I think they if you have the time go ahead and enjoy these programmes - they're not for me. Whilst having access to information at your finger tips is great, I just don't have the time or the want to put out any more unecessary information about myself on the web.
Overall, Learning 2.0 is certainly interesting in exploring and expanding my knowledge of the Internet

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