Thinking about Nings (Part 2)

The adventure continued today. It took me three times to join Library 2.0 Ning successfully. I waited over the weekend to get the approval. I managed to edit my profile a bit and added a picture. I joined two groups. I added the Library 2.0 Ning badge to my Blog. It took me some time to get through all of this during a busy work day but I persevered.

Badges

Visit Library 2.0

Thinking about Nings (Part 1)

I explored the Nings of Mosman readers, Museum 3.0, Library 2.0 and discovered similar features I've used on Facebook. I like the Events and Videos features the most. Some Blogs had links to interesting podcasts too. I read some comments on the Forum. During my university studies I used Subject Forums a lot to post assignments, review other student assignments, reply to questions, give feedback, and share information. University Forums have strict user guidelines unlike Facebook which is more of a social network where you can get a Poke or gifts, etc. Nings can be used as a network for specific interests and I think this is most useful.

My thoughts on Web 2.0 tools (Evaluation)

I found this post quite fascinating and a real eye-opener. My library is not "keeping-up with the Jones'!". It does not have a Flickr and Twitter accounts due to Organisational restrictions. It has a Blog that you can subscribe to. I think Google alerts are installed as statistics are collected and reported about site hits and subscription numbers. I installed Feedburner for my blog analysis. I had a look at Surveymonkey and Zoomerang and these look like great tools for a service to collect and review statistics. A service needs to evaluate its effectiveness using both quantitative and qualitative data. I recall my university used a similar survey tool called Rodski to continually improve services. I think my Library Management Team, Promotions Team, Systems Team could do well using these tools in the future.

Exploring Delicious

The Delicious experience took me a long time to complete compared to everything else I have blogged about but I persevered with it and successfully bookmarked some sites.
The feature I found most useful is the tagroll. I like looking at other tagrolls because this uses tagged keywords to find information I am interested in. I have created a tagroll too.

Tagrolls

The Twitter Experience

I think Twitter is very similar to the dialogue box on the homepage of a Facebook account that reads "(Name)is ... "
I signed up to Twitter and afterwards I made some changes.
I changed my user name from stoct09 to changeschanges2. This is similar to my Blog name which I prefer. I also forgot the # symbol infront of learning2.1 link. Hence I micro-blogged three times.
I don't mind micro-blogging but I prefer to keep in contact with family & friends via e-mails and via Facebook. I feel I don't really need to tweet as well.
I'm currently following one person on Twitter and adding this link was easy to do.
It is great to see how several libraries are using Twitter to advertise services, programs and events by making a small comment with a link to more information. I'm all for Twitter in this case because it's maximising on free advertising and promoting of library services.

My twitter names is changeschanges2

Learning 2.1 begins today and the journey continues.

1. I have done some blogging since I finished the original course in Sept 2008 but not a lot due to work commitments. My work is busy with managing a branch library, serving customer needs mainly face-to-face on a daily basis, supervising the work activities of other staff, being proactive in promoting library services and undertaking weekly programs and other events.

2. I suppose what I like about blogging is sharing information.

3. I recently subscribed to my work's blog. I have not read other blogs since 2008.

4. After the introduction of Learning 2.0 Library Management set up an internal Intranet work blog. I have made my comments on it. This was mainly to share and read other staff opinions on current work issues and concerns.