Sunday, October 11, 2009

Podcasting party

I like the State Library of NSW podcasts, they are very user friendly, I can see how useful they would be to Sunshine Coast Libraries. We could podcast our author events then all the borrowers who missed out may listen via the website!
Some podcasts open easily by clicking on 'listen' others ask you to subscribe and others don't open at all! Tried to open Gavin's podcast but no luck.
Have to open the library now, I will attempt to create a podcast and list my favourite podcasts another day.
Dancing Queen

Friday, October 9, 2009

Mashups

I also liked the video on Mashups even if the guy did talk very fast- it was very interesting.
LOVE the New York Public library mashups comparing 'then and now' this would be really cool for the Sunshine Coast.
Portwiture was my favourite of the mashup awards, but they were all related to Twitter, finding Twitter rather boring but a few of us are determined to start tweeting each other.
The Google Map I've added is of Kukak Bay which is a beautiful little place in Alaska that I fell in love with.
Stay tuned for my amazing Podcast might even sing!:)
Dancing Queen.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Portwiture

http://portwiture.com/twittingloud/

Online applications and tools OR Google docs vs Zoho

Well we had a few technical issues watching some of the videos, they wouldn't open on my PC at home and we couldn't get sound on the Google Docs in plain english presentation here at work at the library.
The Geo greeting was really cool, not sure if I'd actually send it to anyone though?...
I found Google docs quite boring but practical. The applications in Zoho looked more exciting especially the Facebook application. However I doubt if I would ever use either of them, for now I'm just happy to use a USB stick if I want to save a file but I can see the value for web conferences and collaboration with others users.
Dancing Queen