Week 6 encompassculture-global-bookclub.

Good to see that this was a British based site with links to Commonwealth books instead of the usual American pap.
I'm not to much into chat rooms and, discussions on what I like and don't like to read and am not to much interested in reading and hearing what other people think, just prefer to read well written book reviews or blurbs from publishers about up coming books.
The author index looked pretty comprehensive, but you could not search by name just had to scroll through alphabet (not something I could be bothered doing very often) and then the books listed and reviewed did not seem that up to date.

Was pretty hopeless at the quizzes I did try!!!

Have book marked site but time will tell if I have any great use for it.

Week 5 Slideshow

This is just another site which I found was one step to far. Information overload!!!!!!
Did look at a few library related slide shows and they seemed well put together and presented.

It could be useful in a library setting getting info to a lot of people in a fairly easy format. The site is easy to navigate around and most people with have no trouble using it.

Week 4 Tastespotting

Picked this picture for the simple reason that I felt like chocolate cake.

Site easy to use, but would I use it again? The chances are pretty slim when we have library shelves groaning with cookery books. Would I direct someone to it? again probably not would suggest that they look in a book first and failing that sad to say just google it.

Yes I personally would prefer library related tasks although some of the tasks have been interesting and made me look at sites that I would not normally bother with.

What did I get out of doing this exercise - sorry but not much to American and to many clicks until I got to the recipe.

Week 4.5 ...............

Dontanimated Comments Don't you just feel like this some days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Week 3 FeedMyInbox

Had no problems with this site easy to sign up and log on. Haven't looked at or used any RSS feeds since we encountered them in the 1st stage of web training. Just feel that they are information overload and I struggle now keeping up with the things I really need to know, but saying that I have signed up for Auckland and Wellington libraries blogs and will see how they go - never know I might get hooked.
Would only promote them to customers if it somehow came up in conversation.

http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/blog/booksinthecity.aspx
www.wcl.govt.nz/blog

Week 2 Picapp

Wow got a picture loaded at last. Certainly not the easiest site to use and would sure not recommend it to our customers. Sorry to say but google images are so much quicker and easier. Site does have some great photo shots though and is very easy to navigate around.

Week 1 Box.net

Well the start of web 2 again - oh what fun.

Signed up for an account with Box net all went well and no problems pretty straight forward to use.

Would I use it personally. No at this stage I would have no use for it and would probably not in the future, would use and external drive - viruses etc.

Would possibly promote to customers if they were in the habit of losing their usb drive or they had work they wished to share with other users.