Summary - brief because I tend to waffle on!!
Lots of learning, discovery, bad language, temper fits and despair about my ability with technology.
Good things, Zamzar - very useful tool.
Twitter interesting discovering how it works, good for me doesn't let you ramble on.
Good reads, useful as an advisory tool used with new books lists and book reviews.
Music sites, handy to know about for borrowers looking for music. I do use a music site to look for particular recordings and pieces.
Bad things for me Facebook just not interested.
Overall very pleased I have finished because I didn't last time and I don't like feeling defeated and my PDRs have WEB2 as an objective - achieved, goody!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Re read the instructions about Facebook and have done what was asked for. I am not an intuitive user of things and I had difficulty navigating my way about the site and discovering where to add things and find things, feel sure it would become easy with constant use.
I do not feel Facebook can do anything for me and I will not continue to use it, if anything I find it alarming that so much information is available about people when there is such a fuss about privacy laws, however I recognise Facebook has a huge following and so the library should have a Facebook page. The library information is then freely available for anyone that wants it without having to look for it seperately. Customers do ask about Facebook on a regular basis and many of them check their pages regularly using the Learnnet and I would suggest to them they look at the libraries Facebook for information about events, competitions, new books etc, many of the borrowers for whom English is not a first language would perhaps feel happier looking at Facebook than the Libraries website because they are often familiar with Facebook but not the website, they struggle with the website in the same way I struggle with Facebook.
I do not feel Facebook can do anything for me and I will not continue to use it, if anything I find it alarming that so much information is available about people when there is such a fuss about privacy laws, however I recognise Facebook has a huge following and so the library should have a Facebook page. The library information is then freely available for anyone that wants it without having to look for it seperately. Customers do ask about Facebook on a regular basis and many of them check their pages regularly using the Learnnet and I would suggest to them they look at the libraries Facebook for information about events, competitions, new books etc, many of the borrowers for whom English is not a first language would perhaps feel happier looking at Facebook than the Libraries website because they are often familiar with Facebook but not the website, they struggle with the website in the same way I struggle with Facebook.
Friday, May 21, 2010
Facebook has been a laborious effort. I approached it with a negative feeling and consequently everything possible went wrong with creating a login and password. I do not wish to have a profile on facebook for a variety of reasons-" old friends" is enough, so I created an imaginary person which made a load of work as they needed an email address and gmail was very fussy about user names and passwords. I got very cross with the whole exercise and was all set to abandon the whole damn thing but I was determined to finish this time. Tonight it is completed and Minnie Felis now has her own Facebook, her photo shows her doing what she likes best and eating comes a close second. I could now help a borrower if they asked about Facebook - reluctantly - what happened to the "customer experience" theory!!!! it was killed by Facebook.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Music - a vast area - have fallen behind with my work plan because music needs a computer at work, my hours have been short and busy and the learn net is always in use. Today I worked all day and found the time to look at mp3 sites.
I have used the Amazon MP3 store before looking for a particular recording so for this used FreeAlbums.blogsome.com. because it didn't need a login and password created. I used the Album directory and the search function and found the work and composer I was looking for. The site offers a wide variety of genre which suited my search, classical music can be hard to find. I found the blogs interesting and the lists of further sites to look at immense, hope to spend some time looking at these, will try at home.
I have used the Amazon MP3 store before looking for a particular recording so for this used FreeAlbums.blogsome.com. because it didn't need a login and password created. I used the Album directory and the search function and found the work and composer I was looking for. The site offers a wide variety of genre which suited my search, classical music can be hard to find. I found the blogs interesting and the lists of further sites to look at immense, hope to spend some time looking at these, will try at home.
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