Nings

It was a funny word but great to read about nings! I was so impressed with the Mosman Readers ning- http://www.mosmanreaders.net I want one for our Regional Library.
I imagine it would take a lot of work and time to keep it current but it would be such a valuable resource for users. I think it is about time we expanded our service to allow this type of interaction between our Library users and staff as well as interested community members. Inspirational stuff. Learnerplater

Evaluation

This was an interesting read about online evaluation tools. I knew absolutely nothing about them and can see how useful they would be in managing event promotion and presentations in the Library. I watched a very detailed and useful video at the Zoomerang website, on how to create an online survey. It made me wonder whether we could use this as part of the evaluation of our children's programs in the Library. Would people bother to do it once they were home or is the hard copy in the hand easier? Agenda item for our next team meeting...
As yet, the Google alert hasn't picked up anything interesting. Learnerplater.

Delicious

I think it is great having a list of bookmarks available anywhere. I found these useful ones tagged under Children on the Public Library Services bookmarks on Delicious. Worth a look if you are in the Childrens team.
http://delicious.com/PublicLibraryServices/children
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Twitter

Well, I've had a look at Twitter and found some interesting tweets about libraries. The one I liked the best was the one about searching for images at the National Library of Australia by colour- very cool!
As for Twitter's uses in the library, I can see pro's (better contact with younger borrowers) and con's (how do you find the time to tweet, when you are flat out keeping up with emails?)
Time is precious!
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2010- A new start- 2.1

A new start for the year and the start of working my way through Web 2.1.
When I had to refresh my blog, I was surprised how much I'd forgotten (more passwords to remember) as I haven't even thought of blogging since 2.0. I had a change of colour for my blog as well as a new photo. I'm looking forward to learning some new stuff this time around.
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