Meebo!

Well, I did it. I have a Meebo widget on my blog that will never be used. Yeah!! I did have some trouble getting the widget onto my blog but did finally get it there.
The whole IM thing is not me at all, if you want to talk, pick up the phone or email me and I will get back to you. I do think that patrons would love to have IM available to them for reference questions. I can see patrons from the deaf community using it and the 20 and 30 year crowd being interested in this kind of service. It give the impression that the library is up to date and current with how different people communicate. I would not like to see every branch having this service, it should be centralized. As for staff using this service, I think it would be used more for social interaction than work.

RSS - A Second Helping

I think this could be dangerous! I have lost control of myself and have signed up for so many feeds that my computer is going to implode. Once I got the hang of the feeds I really had fun looking at sites and adding the feeds to Bloglines. Technorati and Topix.net were my favorite and the easiest for me to use. Syndic8 was ok, but let's face it, just not as visually appealing as the others. Sadly I do judge a website by its layout.
I can see the library using feeds to keep up to date with breaking news or even getting new book titles and blurbs about books to teens and other interested library users. It may take another full time job to keep up with it all, but hey, isn't the library floatin' in cash? *smiles*

RSS Feeds -- Argh!

I finally did it!

This whole thing is intriguing, and I know a bunch of people who will find it to be very useful. I subscribed to several blogs and I will be glancing back at them in the next couple weeks, but I know that soon I will forget about this and never log on again. I don't think that it takes that much time to open my favorites and click on the site I want. RSS feeds are fun for now but not ideal for my use of the internet.
I did have a hard time at first with subscribing to the blogs, I had to reread the instructions several times before I got it. And then I was embarrassed because it was so simple in the end. DUH!!
So, for the next couple of weeks I will enjoy reading my Perez Hilton gossip, comic strips, and small farming news!

Flickr Mashups

At first the whole mashup thing confused me, but then I remembered I don't have to make one, I just can enjoy the mashups other people have made. I like the Spell with Flickr site. This was fun but does get old after awhile. My favorite by far was the Flickr Sudoku. I could play this all day long! The first one I got was pictures of hamsters. How funny.
I really didn't see any mashups that I would use for a long period time but it is interesting to know that these programs are out there.

Flickr

I love this! I had heard people talking about Flickr but I had not checked it out yet. I'm glad I did. I can see lots of uses for this type of site. I can't wait to start an account at home so my sis and I can exchange photos of the kids.
It does frighten me how many people do not put some of their photos to private. As I was looking around the site and checking out the photographs I came across some that put a blush on my face. :-) To each their own, I guess.
I did find a cute PT Cruiser that is a storytime vehicle, "Storytime-a-go-go" they call it. Too cute. I would love for our library to have a couple of these, and go around to schools, daycares and other agencies and do storytimes.