Friday, March 30, 2007

Thing 18 -- Zoho Document

Thing 18-- I'm a ZOHO writer!! HOOORAYYYYYY!!!!
cool

Thing 17 -- PB Wiki

PB Wiki seems so easy to use! I love it!! Like the cute sandwich logo, too! (sorry!)
I might use this to document our travle plan for our trip to France and Spain this summer. Have to give it some more thoughts... 5 GBs of free space is not bad either.

Thing 16 -- Wiki

I love wiki. I think it's almost a natural for librarians since we love to share what we know and love to work with each other. I like the libraris who use it for online book clubs. I've been asked by patrons before if we have a online book club. Is something like this already at work here? We might be able to use it for our circulation manual or related documentation, too. But in that case, it might be better to have it hosted internally here by DIT, rather than sitting on a outside commercial website such as pbwiki.

Thing 15 -- Library 2.0

Traditional library catalogs have a long way to go from achiving what Library 2.0 is all about. Reading from John Riemer's comment, and looking at what our HIP can do, for example, no relevance ranking, can't suggest spellings, users can't leave comments, tagging... It is frustrating sometimes. There's not even an easy way to add a link to the blank space on the catalog page to promote some other services or databases we have. Wish we have more support and resources to do what we want with the catalog. I really like the endeca interface. I think it's awesome! Wonder what the price tag is now that more and more people are interested in their product.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Thing 14 -- Technorati Tags

All right, here is my post for the technorati tags.
(I'm skipping again, will come back and do the others...)

Uh.... I don't know what to tag this one for....
I guess it's ok once in a while to have something here that has nothing to do with... technology. I bought a slow cooker recently and am looking for good recipes for slow cookers. So here it is...

slow cooker recipe

And I did find some good stuff up there! Cool!!