youtube

I thought this was really funny, if a bit long. I wish sometimes we had a dark librarian roving library looking for troublemakers. It was fairly easy to find this video. We could show the summer reading club video we make every year or the programs that people would like to go to but can't for one reason or another, that way they still get to see it even if they couldn't make it on the day the presenters came.

http://youtu.be/1qh_h-6-gRc

Twitter

I thought it was pretty easy to find subjects that I like as long as you know what you are looking for. It is interesting to find just how many people and companies do have an active twitter account. I don't like blogging or micro blogging. I feel my time could be spend doing something more productive, but I do see how it could be useful to other people. I think that libraries could use this like any other social media, to inform people of upcoming events or to notify about the library closing for whatever reason and when it will open again.

I followed Zahi Hawass  because he is the antiquities director in Egypt and ancient Egypt has always facinated me. I also followed Paul Boughton, he is part of the Egyptology News Network. I like to keep updated on the latest find and discoveries of the Ancient Egyptians. The third one in archaeologynews. I like to keep updated on what is the latest news in archeology in general as well.

Facebook

I like that you can connect with anyone who is using facebook. It is nice to meet up with old friends and family you never get to see. I many use facebook for the games. I do occasionally use it to keep up on my extended family, but mostly we call each other anyway. I will probably not be using it much longer. I am kind of bored with it. I think that they library should use it. It can help people keep up with what is going on in the library if they don't have internet by getting messages sent as a text to their phone. I think the library should use it to post current events at the library but also perhaps as a "suggestion box" where people can post ideas for the library.

virtual bookshelf

I liked librarything better than goodreads. I think it is easier and is more accurate to what I like for the suggested reads. I think that it could be useful in a library if you are trying to find like reads or authors that are similar or if you are looking for a "best seller list" book.
1) Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2)Vanity Fair By William Makepeace Thackeray
3)Middlemarch By: George Eliot
4)A Well-Timed Enchantment by Vivian Vande Velde
5)Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

picnik

I really liked picnik. It was interesting to see how you can change a photo to cut out things you don't like about it or to highlight the things you do like. In personal photos, i would use this to clarify pictures or to make some smaller, or just to change up photos that I see everyday.

 Posted on flickr by: nickleus
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickleus/4241012227/lightbox/

I found this very easy to find. It gave me lots of examples of the wedjat, or eye of horus. I found this one to be the more interesting of the ones it gave me. Flickr seems to be very straight forward and easy to understand.

RSS Feed

I think that the rss feed seemed pretty easy. I could see using this in my personal life more so than my professional one. It seems easier to keep track of differnt things going on all in one spot. It is also convienant that it uses one email address to access it instead of creating another one. It gets difficult to remember so many usernames and passwords so being able to use just your google mail address is alot easier.