Delicious

I have a delicious account but have no real use for it....no, that is wrong, if I had time to do my job properly I would find many uses for it I am sure. We just need our working environment to catch up, become more forward thinking and to become less stressful. It was interesting to try the suggestions and have "a play" but unless work conditions change I will only ever scratch the surface. I do make use of the contributions of others to Delicious - thankyou- but cannot see myself using my own site in the foreseeable future.

Then again I guess that is to be expected. Parts of the course we will find very useful and exciting, others we will know they are there and how to use them if necessary (remembering passwords is becoming a problem though, I will have to sort out a system).

Oh, and daughter dear is now on Twitter

Twitter

I read the notes to this module feeling very smug as I already have an account. Then I tried to get into said account...I eventually gave up having tried every possible combination of email addresses and passwords and created a new account. I am now Icandothis2009. I am now a friend of the Council which I thought was cool until I thought why can't the Library do this, are we not trusted to put politically correct information out there?

Another point that came to me was when I asked daughter (22 years old) if she was on Twitter or any of her friends and her reply was "no, what for?", are organisations (eg tv news programmes and Councils) and famous people the only ones who really use Twitter? More investigation on my part is required. Then again maybe daughtetr and friends are starting to become old.

I'm back

How exciting. I learnt so much from the previous modules I am really looking forward to these new ones. I gained so much confidence in answering clients' questions from the previous course even though I could not actually use the skills within my daily work.

Thankyou for this opportunity.

Can't Keep Away

Yes, the heading says it all. I am totally frustrated being unable to put virtually anything I have learnt into practice.I am going to have forgotten it all. It is like living in the dark ages or even being kept in a prison. You know there are all these tools out there but you are not permitted to use them and they would make our jobs so much more satisfying and be of such a great help to the public BUT Oh No the almighty IT department says there are problems with doing all these things - they do not specify what they are - and there fix to the problem (?) is you can't use it, not how can we cure the problem.

Sorry but I had to get that off my chest. I should change the title of my blog from I can do this to I could do this if I was allowed.

For those of you out there who are still going, keep going, it opens a whole new era of possibilities. Our profession has such a lot more to learn and many more challenges in the amazingly expanded horizons of the electronic information world.

The End

What an exciting journey this has been and how frustrating that most of it I will not be able to use professionally. It would be interesting to set up a MySpace account for the Library just to see how many people would use it.I have a personal one which nobody uses the reason I expect is the age of my friends, my daughter uses hers all the time and has found long lost friends and far flung relatives on it.

Thankyou so much State Library for running this Course, it must have been an amazing amount of work for you and I am very grateful to you.

Further to previous blogs I could not use Zoho at work either and as this was one of the tools I would have found really useful from a management point of view I am really cranky about it. I also edited a wiki which was a bit of fun.

Goodbye and thankyou again SLNSW.

Google docs etc

What marvellous tools google.docs and zoho are with so many uses in the workplace. As I cannot use google.docs at work I feel very frustrated and hope zoho will work. Sharing documents would be an immense help with rostering, attendance sheets, cleaning reports and I'm sure many more I cannot think of off the top of my head.

I would not have much use for sharing slide shows and presentations but one can see the application would be great in many other positions. Isn't there an astonishing variety of tools out there. Look at the explosion of tools in the last 5 years, imagine what it will be like in another five. how will we ever keep up. Please keep training us PLNSW otherwise we will fall behind and sink.

Mashups

Just to prove I CAN do this.

What fun - again. I can see alot of uses for this, particularly in the local history fields, putting maps to photos and talking about them or writing text. The choices seem to be endless.This could be of great help to patrons, making the presentation of information much more user friendly.
Oh, I do wish our IT and Communications department were more open to this technology. I am sure if we thought we could actually use it we would think of so many more applications.