Podcasts

Accessed these site for podcasts - neither featured videos with the "cast" - however, did find a few that did - http://podcastalley.com/search.php?searchterm=rolling+stones
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/multimedia/podcasts.html. Had a hard time finding book reviews on Podcastalley & Odeo so Googled "book review podcasts" and found many.

Didn't find much use for podcasts - except to listen to good music! However, I think they'd be great to use to send out "casts" to listeners advertising upcoming events.

YouTube

Viewed CCLS contest winners and trailer for new movie Marley & Me - http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=marley+%26+me+&search_type=

Youtube would be a great vehicle for bringing storytimes to children who are unable to attend and other library programs for all ages.

Social Networking

MySpace, Facebook, Microblogging – very valuable for libraries to communicate and provide up-to-date information - as long as the info is kept up-to-date and when questions are asked on the sites - sender receives a timely response. These also need to be monitored to assure there are no comments, photos, etc. that "offensive stuff" does not appear.

Web 2.0 Tools

Accessed http://www.last.fm/ and searched Keith Richards (by now everyone probably knows he's my favorite artist!) The site was easy to navigate, user friendly and provided numerous tools to access videos, photos, similar artists - there were lots of options.

Web-Based Apps

Sorry...don't like this application. It took me a 1/2 hour to create a document with photos - found difficult to add & move the photos. Would rather use my regular applications which would have taken me only 5 minutes to create the document I created in Zoho.

http://export.writer.zoho.com/ZExport.do?tstamp=8,12,2008

Playing with PBWiki

It was fun adding "toys" to the sandbox and viewing others favorites. I added a few favorite books and restaurants.

#15 What's in a Wiki

Visited this site: http://wikis.ala.org/yalsa/index.php/YALSA_at_the_2008_ALA_Annual_Conference

This wiki was good – provided a complete schedule of events and other interesting items such as places to visit.

A wiki would be very useful for planning an event in which a committee is involved. To keep everyone on track and to allow all to see what has been completed and what still needs to be completed.