Method 8

I heard about Facebook a couple of years ago and that millions of people around the world are

its fans, especially students. I couldn't understand how and why that website attracts such many followers. Until I tried it, I found what the answer was. It's easy to sign up and it takes me some time to figure it out most of the functions. And I log on to it whenever I have time just to enjoy reading from friends and sometimes to leave a comment and feel very glad that it works! To me, the social networking sites satisfy the needs of people's communication to keep track of what is going on with your friends , family and acquaintances, to share photos and information not with just one person at a time but a whole lot in a fastest way and much more... Though interested in what it brings to me, I still have privacy concerns about keeping my personal life separate from my professional life in the online environment. And even in my personal social life account, I am still not confident to share a lot of my personal things on line for everyone (I mean friends I know but not very close to me) , and according to what I read , even if I delete my things, they are still in the database on line. My College has use Facebook , unfortunately, my Library has not used Facebook yet , I hope some time in the future it will . However, it is using some other social networking tools such as Instant Message, RSS Feeds, Twitter.

Method 7

I have explored the DELICIOUS and found that it is really helpful in bookmarking a web page and in adding tags to organize the bookmarks. It saves us a lot of time in researching by using the similar links in the tags as well as in discovering and keeping the interested websites for later use.
This tool is not only an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere but also has potential use by teachers, librarians and libraries especially in their workshops .

Method 6

This is the link of the video I added to my blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8C7w1i1Pw

This is the embeded code of the video I would like to place inside my blog.


"YouTube" is easy for me to use in looking for & watching the videos as well as in sharing the videos I like to my friends. I really enjoy working with "YouTube".

I chose this video because it mentions one of the problems that sometimes happens in the library in a funny way that makes you laugh.

Method 5 - Extra credit - Flickr vs Picasa

I explored Picasa and took a tour from Flickr. Picasa is part of Google and Flickr is part of Yahoo.
I like both Flickr and Picasa sites because they both give us an easy , organized, safe and quick way to keep your valuable digital photos. The " Take the tour" from Flickr and " Watch a video introduction" from Picasa are good guides for you to follow and understand the features they provide users.

Method 5

I have just finished posting an image from Flicker to my blog by using Blogger's photo upload tool. Hope that I did it right. Flicker is gorgeous and it was really interesting and easy to upload photo through Blogger.
Discussing about online photo sharing, on a personal level, I am comfortable to post and share my personal photos with my family and my close friends . It's really a convenient , quick, easy and cheap way for those who have access to the computers and are familiar with the use of computers to view the online photos, but to those who live in the countryside where there is no access to computers and are not used to living with computers , the traditional photos method is still an easier choice .
On a professional level, online photo sharing sites for libraries , to me, are of some potential uses : it's a fast, convenient and broad way to introduce your library to the students and other library users, to share, connect and bring library events to those who work in the library and to the publics and etc....

Method 4

Here are the links to my 3 feeds

1. http://library.hccs.edu/Libline/

2.http://www.lib.utexas.edu/utlol.rss

3.http://library.oxfordjournals.org/rss/

RSS seems new to me and it really took me a lot of time to find out how it works. I am still learning how to make use of RSS to keep up with some certain sites.
The most appealling thing to me about these feeds is that I can read recently published articles and news at one time.

Method 3

I have explored Google Docs & Zoho , used some of Google applications and am really interested in using these applications. Actually, i just shared some general publications with my friends . As far as privacy concerns, I haven't made use of all of the features. I am kind of fifty-fifty percent of being excited and at the same time being cautious about cloud computing.
In terms of library use, these tools are great benefits for use in libraries to research, to share and to communicate.

"Methods 1 and 2"

Web 2.0 contains a lot of new technologies that I have heard of but never tried all of them by myself. I'm feeling a little bit lost in the forest of new technologies. Web 2.0 really plays an important role in effective communication.
Library 2.0 with all of the tools from Web 2.0 will better help and serve the community.
To me, the terms mean the "second generation", the generation that brings you a lot of new and fast means of communications.
To libraries in general, the term means a new generation of library, which is more functional, more helpful and more inviting .

test post

I have created a blog. Hope it works !