Another Wordl

Wordl

We already have a great cover for the new Book Buzz for Fall 2008 bibliography that will be available shortly, but here is something I created on Wordl that would also be cool. I cannot turn it upright, so you'll have to twist your head to view it.

Phrase of the day

Ganbarimasho Kudasai!! (Japanese for "let's all try our best")--from Heather.

Libraries Using Social Tools

On Bookspace, I think receiving email alerts on new books by your favorite authors could be popular. Ann Arbor's site is impressive. I wonder how much tech support is needed and if this is possible for us as part of CCS.

Social Networking and Library Thing

I'm not sure about creating a Myspace or Facebook account, but I do think it's cool that people are making connections this way. I think Library Thing is great for those who want to keep track of their personal book collections and want to share with others. As another way to explore our catalog, could be popular tool in the library. I created a mini list, but not sure how to rate these titles.

YouTube discovery

My son, Harry is featured in this climbing video, about midway. This was pretty easy, compared to Flickr.

YouTube

Flickr

I don't think I'll be using Flickr for my job, but maybe at some point in my personal life. I wish I could get excited about the mashups, etc. I had a hard time trying to figure it out on my own.
Thanks to Laura Antolin to helping me with Flickr! and I found out from Barb how to create spaces between words, but I'm too lazy to go back and fix this.

Corgi Family Portrait

Corgi Family Portrait
Originally uploaded by Krispy Krumb

Love these dogs. I miss my corgi! It took forever to figure out how to transfer this from Flickr. Thank you, Christie, for helping me. You are immensely patient.

I've been hunting around for interesting blogs and feeds. I didn't find Technorati that helpful, but did scan the Technorati Top 100 most viewed sites--amazing. NYT list of blogs is great source. I've been adding more feeds to my Google Reader. RSS=great time saver.

RSS exercise

I set up some RSS feeds and understand the concept. At work, I only look at a few websites regularly for work related news and book info. I'll probably add more sites as I find out about them.