23 Things Assignment #8

YouTube is such a popular way to reach a lot of people - even The Queen has TheRoyalChannel on YouTube! The library could use YouTube to connect with established and new patron groups for video tours of libraries, to demonstrate how to use the library's website and catalogue, and to show different types of library programs.

23 Things Assignment #8

I hope you enjoy this behind-the-scenes video of The Library of Congress.

The Queen visits Google's London headquarters.

23 Things Assignment #7

I have subscribed to three podcasts on my Bloglines account:

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews - intelligent and funny film reviews from BBC Radio 5

NPR: Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! - National Public Radio's weekly current events quiz - lots of fun!

The Toronto Vegetarian Podcast - weekly vegetarian news from the Toronto Vegetarian Association

Podcast Alley was a great resource for finding podcasts on subjects of interest to me.

23 Things Assignment #6

I will definitely use Google Docs. It is easy to use and everything is in one place (Gmail, Calendar, Documents, Photos, YouTube, Web and more!). I can see it being very popular. Useful applications for work would be sharing calendars, documents, and photos to create instantly-updated resources. It would save so much time by reducing duplication of effort, be truly collaborative and would no doubt stimulate a more creative result.

23 Things Assignment #5

del.icio.us is an interesting tool, and I searched for a topic I am interested in - cooking. I could figure out which cooking websites would probably be good (for example, epicurious.com) by the number of people who had saved the same source.

There is no standardization, however, in the tags, so that the success of this tool depends on what people choose for their tags. Under such circumstances, tags could be too broad or even deliberately misleading.

23 Things Assignment #4

Hello! Here is my seasonal image for you from the Generator Blog:

23 Things Assignment #4

Here is an image from Photobucket to which I have added a leaf frame - Happy Hallowe'en!