Friday, February 15, 2008

The assignment: Write a brief summary of your experiences with either del.icio.us or google docs or both.

I LOVE del.icio.us -- the whole idea of it is great for outreach activities from our library, and it is soooo easy to create and manipulate. I only wish I could spell -- that's the hardest part for me (spelling delicious).

Google docs so far is working quite well.

del.icio.us account

OK - I now have a del.icio.us account, the address is http://del.icio.us/lmcdavison

I was really pleased with how easy it is to create & manage. I think this is a great tool - especially for reference, and outreach.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

PBwiki creation

Well, I finally was able to create a pbwiki. I started on Sunday, but had a lot of problems -- in order to create the account, you must get a confirmation message in your email. My work email wouldn't deliver the message (it wouldn't even put it in spam folder), and my hotmail also filtered it out without letting me see it. So, I finally had to create a gmail account, and it worked fine. The address for my wiki is
http://pickiroro.pbwiki.com

I named it for my cats, Pickles and Rosie (big suprise huh?) ;-)

I looked at some of the Albany County Public Library wiki and also at Librarian Sarah's wiki. They are definitely good examples of using a wiki for work. I was especially impressed with the public library staff's wiki; and I recently learned that two of our ILL folks at the MCL have created a wiki about ILLiad! It's great!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Bloglines account created

I've successfully created a Bloglines account as the next part of our Library Blue 2.0 assignment. I added the Blue 2.0 Blog, the About Cats Blog, and the Dilbert Blog (I've always been a fan of Dogbert's Top Secret Managment Handbook).

I also added Michael Stephens "Tame the Blog" site - I often go there to view it, but think this will be easier having it in Bloglines.

This was a good experience setting up this account. I'm still working on creating a pb wiki though - for some reason I'm not receiving the email confirmation message that I have to have to finish the wiki...