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Social Networking they say, is where people are linked with other people through specific groups. This is most popular now through on-line websites such as Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, Hi5 etc. I was checking out the map from LeMonde showing the spread of popularity of social networking around the world. Australia is heavy on Myspace while the Asia Pacific dominates Friendster and Cyworld. South

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I created a document and shared it with the nswpln team. I had a reply from them with my document edited/commented. This was a good start and I was able to see the potential uses of Google Docs. Even in our libraries we can collaboratively share our documents in the form of word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Curently our library documents are shared on a network drive which can be

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Mashups is a new feature I learned through this course. It's amazing what mashups can do by combining features of one application and mashing it up with another. I was checking out the Public Library Finder and thought it to be a good idea for locating libraries. We can also create maps of this sought and embed them on our library website, pinpointing the locations of all our branches and also

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According to the introductory video, Podcasts mean Personal On Demand casting. How cool is that? As the word suggests, Podcasting can be done by anyone on a variety of topics and can be subscribed and downloaded to your computer or MP3 player.In the OCLS podcasts I took note of Meet the Author, the kids podstory and the Teen podcasts -especially the upcoming Teen Tech week program. The Denver

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Having gone into the links suggested in week 8, I've realised more and more people are using answer boards now. How serious is this information? It seems most of these web forums now have ways of measuring the quality of the answers.I liked the idea of slamming the boards for us Librarians. We are not confining ourselves within the walls of our libraries. We are heard and sought after across the

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I seem to be doing Week 7 in bits and pieces!As the Discover exercise stated I was checking out the Sutherlandshire Library's tag cloud and Cleveland Public library's del.icio.us tags. In Sutherlandshire I noticed the tagging in list order and tag clouds. The bold and larger headings meant those tags were used a many number of times than the more lighter shaded and smaller ones, thus allowing its

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Amazing there over 112 million blogs tracked by Technorati. I did a search with bookmobile and was succesful in getting 715 searches. With nswpln2008 I had 6 entries tagged under posts and heaps found under photos. Not sure whether I'm doing this exercise the way it's meant to be done.LibraryThing was more of a 'my type' thing and found this to be a wonderful tool to share your personal best

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Wow, I've reached Week 7!So far the Learning 2.0 has been a great flow of knowledge for me and I'm looking forward to completing the rest of the course. I tried my hand at del.icio.us today which was all new to me. It is a very simple concept and a good one at that, as you can save and share your favourite bookmarks with others.With the help of the instructions I saved some of my bookmarked

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It was interesting to check the videos on You tube & Google videos which was the exercise for Week 6. I particularly liked the Qand ANJ:Now your library is open late night too! This video was a brilliant marketing strategy. I also liked guides to using library services. This video promoted the use of the Reference area, research assistance, databases and other reference services. Mosman library

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Wikis is an interesting concept. Of course I got carried away with week 5 and realised how popular wikis are and how they can work great in your work place, be it libraries or anywhere, your businesses, family, etc. It will be something like your mobile, everyone will be having a wiki! I came across this article on the web called 7 things you should know about Wikis. Worth reading.http://

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Greek actress Maria Nafpliotou lit the flame at the Ancient Stadium. (Getty Images: Michael Steele)I think the RSS feed has just worked for me! I happen to check my blog this evening and noticed the ABC news feed on my blog 'delivering' me this news item, updated 1 hour 45 minutes ago.

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In Week 4 I learnt what RSS was and learnt how to subscribe to many feeds. With RSS you can get updated news and information delivered to you! I was able to subscribe to the 5 feeds mentioned in the course. For the SMH News Blog I chose a health blog called "Chew on this" which gives news and views about eating smarter. I also added in the BBC News blogs and ABC World news. When I was uploading

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Today I tried my hand at uploading photos onto flickr. I decided I would take some pictures at home to upload, although we were supposed to take pictures of our libraries. Nevertheless, the main idea was to learn how we can do this. It was easy as ABC! Just follow the links and you are through!I also learnt something else that's new. It is called Picnik mode in flickr, which is used for editing

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Kids Halloween table display, originally uploaded by WestRegionalCary.I chose this picture, because there are so many displays we do in our libraries to promote our services, festivals, special events etc. It takes up a lot of staff time, much thinking and creativity. Once the display is taken down we often forget the hard work. By putting these picures on the web, we will be able to recapture

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esplanade - library, originally uploaded by chillntravel.

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I had my first atttempt at photosharing and it was not bad after all. It took me a while to understand it at first, but once I mastered the concept it was easy. What a wonderful tool this would be for our libraries to market and promote our activities and events. A picture is worth a thousand words.

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Giraffes at the Taronga Zoo. This picture was taken soon after their feeding time. The kids each had a turn in feeding the Giraffes carrots!This is a photo from my personal folder. Using the Blogger's Photo upload tool, I copied it into my blog posting.

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Blogging! Wow, that sounds exciting. This is my first time in blogging. Jennifer and Jacqi gave me 30 minutes on a Friday afternoon to create my own blog. What a challenge that was. Finding a name, in such short notice, was the hardest and I thought it's going to take me forever. Looking around me, I noticed a children's book on my table called "One little Penguin and his friends". A thought

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