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No 1- I like the ideas for using email, but not letting it take over... Epic literature. that sounds like my mom's emails

No 2- IM- how I fell in love with my husband...
I don't think our library would have the staffing to support IM reference questions. We don't have voicemail because it would be so hard to respond to all the messages we receive. I think it is a good thing though, and would allow us to help more people that can't make it to the library.

No3- Text messaging- Hmmm....

No4- Web conferencing would be wonderful. We have WI-Fi, and being able to web conference, or to have it available for our patrons would be a great service to our community. Unfortunately our bandwidth isn't ready, and we need more space.

Email- We use email constantly, and it allows us to email when we think of something, but don't need an immediate answer. Productivity is increased because there isn't the time spent on hold, or walking around the building trying to find someone, or waiting for someone to be available.

I haven't IMed since college. It was great for me to communicate long distance.

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These are great tools for publicity. The splashr would be good for internal or external presentations, and the spellr is fun for just fun!! I can't get the clockr to do anything for me.

http://splashr.com/show/leaves/23515087@N04/25/

Sharing photos online is nice, but there needs to be security. At the library we have to have permission to use patrons photos. This would definately be needed for any online pictures. Also for staff we don't want to use full names. Stacey at the library is fine.

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This could work for many library programs. It is a way to advertise, promote and just have fun!

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Ok the Carlton college Trading cards are so cool. I want to have super library powers.





I created a Trading card for a member of our library Board. How fun!

This is a fun thing...there will be much experimentation

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Flickr photo. Ooh so fun!!

This could be a great tool! I use a lot of pictures for our library cable channel and flickr could help me create cool sets.

I think having pictures public is ok as long as a person is smart about it. People don't know my full name and address from this picture, and there is nothing inappropriate.

When using library pictures it is also nice to make things public because we are a public library and we want to share and show off our resources.

If our library created a myspace page, or enhanced our web page tools like flickr could help us create cool graphics and visual interest.

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I wish I had this when I was doing a paper!

Not only does it help with the timeline, but it gives great ideas on how to get started. This would be good for the procrastinating student who doesn't start because they don't know where to go. Then there are easy links for making good decisions about diting sources. That was always the part I didn't like. Formatting...yuck.

This is something that could be recommended to parents, teachers or students. And in a library it might be fun to have some sort of research contest.

ooh the possibilities...the things we didn't know exsisted.

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Reading these articles is very interesting, especially since our location is looking at building a new building. How can Library 2.0 help our patrons. I really liked the quote from Wikipedia "With Library 2.0, library services are frequently evaluated and updated to meet the changing needs of library users" and the articles that focused on a user centered library with easy to use services. We get a lot of questions about basic use. How can we make it easier for our patrons to use our services?

The Just in case items were also a interesting item. Right now we are spending time advertising some of our great reference materials that aren't being used, mostly because people don't know they are there.

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I have an avatar! That was fun. Now I just have to figure out how to put it places!

I figured out how to put it places...look its here!!

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Google Reader was much easier for me. There were a lot of fun and interesting feeds to subscribe to. I like that I can add those feeds and then don't have to search all around for what I want to look at.

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Google Reader was much easier for me. I found a bunch of fun and interesting feeds.



ser un desastre = be useless / hopeless



My spanish word of the day. Hopefully no one ever uses the expression to describe me!

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Well, I am having no problem registering for bloglines, but I guess it will take awhile to learn how to use it. I am so confused.

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This is my first blog...hopefully I will learn something...but now I have a blog...so I can blog...

blog, blog blog...la, la, la...blog, blog, blog