Slamming the boards

Well, here I am Back at blogging after having a spell for (quite) sometime.

Yahoo!7 questions asked are very different. Some of these must be tongue in cheek, with these people having fair toooooo much time on their hands. This shows how impersonal the internet can be.
Answer board Librarians Wiki have far more "real"questions. Most of the questions I looked at I found very interesting, and the answers of great use. The biggest problem I see is that any Librarian from anywhere in the world can answer the questions posted - therefore the information given may not be of any use. Eg. questions asked in Australia can be answered in Canada.

On our local council/library website we have "ask a local librarian", this is used mainly for local and family history queries. Maybe when the patrons are more familiar with the library services on-line, this will be used more.

The tag line "Librarian- we eat questions for breakfast" is great.

My question is - are there any Australian answer boards?


P.S. this thistle is how I feel this week at work- prickly

Week 7 was mostly delicious

Week 7 has taken 2 weeks to complete.
Issues with our network will not allow us to add buttons onto
the tool bar ( or whatever). However, I managed.

Del.icio.us - was very tasty
Here is my del.icio.us web address, del.icio.us/daisydog2008.
Libraries use delicious in many different and interesting ways, including
local history. I am amazed by the amount of subjects that can be found
on this site. I could get lost for hours. I had a great time looking at a
variety of subjects/items.

Technorati - not so interesting
I found numerous difference between 3 different searches.
Searchins nswpln2008. found very few results (maybe our system)
and certainly not my flickr images. Maybe I did some thing wrong!

Library Thing
I ask "so why join the ranks and create your own library
online"?
What is the point ?
I personally think this is useless and a waste of good time.
I have many a book, but I have better things to do with my spare time.
This really is "look at me, look- at- me".

embedding

Hooray, Hooray, at long last, persistance paid off.

This has only taken me about 20 times of trying to embed.

I am over the moon that this has worked.

This was certainly an adventure, and very trying at times.

Embedding

I have given up on this adventure, embedding a
video is just not working for me.
I must have missed the boat somewhere,
çause I just can't get a video to embed.

You Too

What an interesting experience. Have never seen You Tube before,
it was different. Some tubes were interesting and fun, while others
- well what can one say other than some people have way to much
time on their hands.
Could become addictive (maybe).
Great to use when libraries host authors and special occasions.

Wiki

Well here I am at week 5. At the start I really did not know if I wanted to complete this learning programme. But I have really taken on board all the new skills that I have learnt so far. The last few weeks have been a real blast, I am so excited and had such fun with the knowledge I have gained. I am now confident enough to help others with my "new found knowledge". Week 5 was great and the comments of others made me laugh.

RSS

RSS- ING HAS BEEN GREAT FUN. I REALLY HAD NOT HEARD OF RSS BEFORE,THEREFORE HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT WAS OR WHAT IT DID. BUT I HAD A GREAT TIME SEARCHING AND DOWNLOADING. I HAVE EVEN TAUGHT MYSELF (AND OTHER WORKMATES) HOW TO DELETE UNWANTED ITEMS. HOW COOL IS THAT?
I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ASSIST OTHERS WHEN IN TIME OF NEED.
I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THIS COMPONENT OF THE LEARNING 2.0.