Web 2.0 101 Blog Post for Week 3

Social Networking Tools.

• How can social networking be used by MLA to connect members
• Should your library have a Facebook or MySpace page?
• Are there privacy concerns for individuals when using social networking sites.
• What did you like or not like about your experience with Facebook or MySpace.

This week I created a Facebook account and a LinkedIn account. I found Facebook to offer more for the social aspect of life with the groups and friends. I think LinkedIn may be better for MLA to connect with members because it is more professional. I looked a MySpace and it is has a lot to offer with the video and music capabilities.

Both Facebook and LinkedIn accounts were easy to set up and lose track of time on. Yet more applications to spend time adding information to.

I do not foresee our library necessarily using Facebook or MySpace in the near future, maybe LinkedIn accounts for networking. I not saying we would not use theses type of applications but I would have to give some deep thought on how to apply it and get our patrons to use the social networking sites.

I do see privacy concerns with individuals social networking sites. I have seen a couple of people in the past post what I would concerned private but was listed to for all the world to see. It will be interesting to see how items posted in blogs, and on social networking sites will be used in the court of law for evidence for criminal cases.

Web 2.0 101 BLOG post for Week 2

This week was all about wikis. I learned alot about their use and easy of collaboration ability. I create a brief wiki at http://mvhmedicallibrary.wetpaint.com . I also added links to my blog to the Web 2.0 101 Blog and Wiki. At the classes wiki http://mlawikiclass.wetpaint.com I added my wiki and blog to lists on the wiki. I also added an image and posted where I was working from.

I enjoyed learning more about wikis this week. I can see wikis being a little time consuming at first. I have not put much into my wiki yet because I did not have much time to do so.

What is the difference between a blog and a wiki? A blog is organized chronologically and wikis are organized by context. Blogs can only be edited by blog authors whereas wikis can be edited by anyone who has permission.

What sort of things might be better suited for a blog and better suited for a wiki? Blogs would be better suited for individuals chronologically an event. RSS feeds are easy to get for Blogs. Wikis are better suited for collaboration especially when writing a group document.

Web 2.0 101 BLOG post for Week 1

In week 1 of the MLA Web 2.0 101 CE online Course I learned about BLOGs and RSS feeds. I created my first BLOG on www.blogger.com. For the RSS feeds I used Google Reader as my reader for the RSS feeds I selected. The RSS feeds I choose were table of contents (TOCs) from an EBSCOhost database for the journal Computers in Libraries, a PubMed search on Library Technical Services, Wright State University Fordham Health Sciences Blog, both of the CE course RSS feeds and then I choose to do an RSS feed from Clark Howard's website.

Blogging will take some getting use to. I do think this technology is beneficial for work environments.

I find that the TOCs RSS feed can be intimidating because the new TOCs just came out and list 91 feeds to read. I like the RSS feed concept I will need to get use to viewing them on a daily bases to keep up with them.

Here are my answers to the questions posted for week 1:
How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library? I think we could use RSS feeds in our library for our Table of Contents (TOCs) that we provide our patrons. I have in the past set them up with e-mail notifications for the Table of Contents so moving to RSS feeds for the TOCs would be the next step. How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds? Once the patrons get use to looking at another place for information they may get use to using RSS feeds. Some of our patrons like to get notification of when new articles come out on a topic and I think the RSS feed would be a great way to do this from PubMed.

RSS Feeds Response to MLA Web 2.0 101 class

How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library?

I think we could use RSS feeds in our library for our Table of Contents (TOCs) that we provide our patrons. I have in the past set them up with e-mail notifications for the Table of Contents so moving to RSS feeds for the TOCs would be the next step.

How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds?

Once the patrons get use to looking at another place for information they may get use to using RSS feeds. Some of our patrons like to get notification of when new articles come out on a topic and I think the RSS feed would be a great way to do this from PubMed.

Started Blogging

This is my first Blog that I have started. We will see where it goes.

Thanks,
Leslie