Friday, October 22, 2010

The Second Web 2.0

I just complete the current Web 2.0 study and I was quite enjoy the study for the Box.net  and other website knowledge.

I have learned three sessions of Web2.0, I think all three are quite good, but the latest one is the best. We can find more useful tools on the web as our on-line storage and also got a lot of resources for working and life.

Hope in the future under the super city library, we will have more useful and interesting training like this.

EnCompassCulture

I visited the EnCompassCulture and quite like it. As English is my second language, I always feel confused and frustrated when I want to find a good book in English to read. I preferred to get a book which is recommended by the readers and know what is like before I began reading. The EnCompassCulture Website is very helpful and useful for the readers like me. I can find out which new book is very interesting and recommended by other readers and also can get some ideas from the reviews from other readers to know the books style and content to check if it is the book that I like to read. The library staff could advise the customers when they asked the advise on the books, no matter for what ages as EnCompassCulture has the different sections for the readers in different ages. I will promote EnCompassCulture to some customers who is not sure about which books they should borrow.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Slideshare-Resources centre

Today I visit the webiste of slide share, which is very easy to search out the information your need and also can find all sorts of resouces on the website. For example, I use library to search and it's very easy to get the 2.0 presentation, it also support other languages in slides and if I use Chinese to search the library-related presentation, I also can find some. I think the customers will find it simple and I may advise the customer to use it if they create a very good presentation because it is also free for the public. I will use this site again to share my presentation with my friends and others as I often receive soem interesting powerpoint presentation which I'd like to share with others. It's a good place to go.
 
I will promote this site to customer if they need some resouces for their presentation, but I will not promote it to every customers as I think some of them don't like to read the powerpoint documents on line. Furthermore, the speed of the internet is quite critical for the customers, I found it took a while to get into one slides and it went through very slowly. You need to be very patient to wait for the response from the website :(

Anyone like to show your presentation, please to slideshare!

 
 

Friday, October 1, 2010

Tastespotting-Delicious collections


The receipt I chose is a Strawberry & Cream Cupcake. Looked very yummy and delicious that I felt starving again. I like cup cake very much and sometimes make it at home..This one looks fresh and I just saw the strawberry is in the market today, I may try make for my family..sweet weekend. The website is quite easy to use and I have saved it into my favorite so that I can check the receipt everyday. This week task is very interesting and related to our life, may not related to libaries, but I may introduce this to the customer who are interested in cooking..

Nice website but I think I have to go, otherwise I will gain the weight as there are too many delicious stuff...

Make RSS feed simple

The Feed my box is very easy to use and make my RSS feed simple.I also introduced it to one of my customers and she also likes it very much. Feed My box send me email everyday to advised some new feeds that I am interested in. We can use it in our workrooms as we always need some updates on the internet about the library in the world but we may not use it in the Learn.nets as some customers may not like receive the email everyday for the RSS. I will use this site everyday to update my knowledge and will advised some customers if they are willing to use RSS feed in their life or working. But as the RSS feed over 5 will charge the money, I will advised the customers to keep the best five and do not exceed it.

Friday, August 27, 2010

PicApp-Picture from the world

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - JANUARY 13: The level one research library new on the new Supreme Court building opened by HRH Prince William on January 13, 2010 in Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand. HRH will undertake numerous engagements during his 3 days in New Zealand, before heading off for a further 3 days in Australia. This is the first official overseas visit for the second-in-line to the throne. (Photo by Marty Melville/Getty Images)
 
As I want to know the New Zealand National Library, I just typed in the word "New Zealand Library", the picture and the news for library has been located and it's quite easy to use in my blog. It's good place to find out all the real and authentic pictures about the world news. If your blog wants to introduce some current view of some news, you only need to type in the key words and you will get the things you need.The customers may also feel easy to use it because you don't need to set up the complex searching criteiria and all the pictures are related to your topic.
 
The Manukau libary website may publish some picture and updated news and activities of Manukau through PicApp and when someone visit our blogs, they will gets updates at once.I will often use the website for my blog if I found some hot news for my friends.I might promote it to the customer and they could get the news and picture they wanted very fast.
 

Friday, August 6, 2010

My floating storage device-Box net

The web 2.0 round 2 begins....Yeah...
 
I create an account on box.net and save some pictures uploaded from my working station...So Cool! I don't need to save my documents in the USB stick or send it to my other mailbox. It's very convenient for me as I often lost my USB stick and hate resend the documents to and from my various email box for just saving it.
 
I also can use it for work purpose to share my opinion or files with my colleagues. It's easy to use and everyone can add their comments on that. But if my file is too open to others, maybe I will lost my original text at the end. The customer on the learn.net will found it very useful that they can save their work on line and do not and also can use applications to send to their mobile or printer.I will promote this to my customers as it's so convinient and save time. Also it's important that it is free....