#15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0 ...

Well for assignment # 15 On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0... The one that I found to be of interest to me was the OCLC Next Space Newsletter – Web 2.0: Where will the next generation of the web it take libraries? By Tom Storey. Tom Storey basically talks about where the next generation of web takes libraries, he talks about moving the web from being sites and search engines to a shared network space that drives work, research, education, entertainment and social activities essentially everything people do. Tom's opinion on changing the ways of serving libraries customers to advance the learning environment. We are living in a world of Technology so people will have to get with the program. The potential network effects of Web 2.0 have not gone unnoticed in the library community. The first traces of Web 2.0 are already appearing. Libraries are changing. Funding limits and customer demands are transforming staffing levels, service models, access to resources, and services to the public. The heart of Library 2.0 is user-centered change. It is a model for library service that encourages constant and purposeful change, inviting user participation in the creation of both the physical and the virtual services they want, supported by consistently evaluating services. I find that to be good cause we as a Library is coming together with or customers as one big family, who is there for one another.

#14 Getting not-so-technical with Technorati

So now I finally got to the assignment #14 and got to play around with Technorati. Technorati is still totally new to me even though I've kind of had a little expreience with it in pervious assignments. I've visited its website several times and spent much time over there to understand it and find its specialty and how it differs from others and why it is useful.I did the search for the " Learning 2.0" and found a large selection in realtion to my search. I also found our Queens Library Learning 2.0 listed on there as well. I came across bloggers who had done the program at other organizations. I also looked through the "popular sites", and came across YouTube, which is one of the most popular website for video sharing, where users can upload, view and share video clips.

#13 Tag! You're It!

I watched the Del.icio.us tutorial and found it to be very useful for research and other information.Del.icio.us is a good tool to use to find good material on a topic in which your interested in. It also a shared reading list which you are able to do your research and share your reading list, Connect with other people. One of the things that I also like about del.icio.us was that you are able to share a shared reading List which allows you to pick a unique tag and have everyone in your group post their findings to the shared tag. Which I found to be great for Students that have group projects. The students would be able to put together ideas thru this unique tag, which I find to be good tool to use for team work.

#12 Roll your own search engine

For this assignment I decided to do my all time favorite R&B Singer Beyonce Knowles. I created a Rollyo account and search roll, like the assignment said. At first I had a hard time adding the search roll to my blog, but then I finally accomplish it once I added FireFox. After I finally got the search roll added to my blog; I then did a search with my search roll. I was so happy when I saw that my search roll actually worked.

#11 Thing This: LibraryThing

I would have to say that this assignment had to be another one of my favorites. This was also an easy assignment. I was glad to be able to add books written by my favorite author Mary. B Morrison. She not only is an author but an incredible poet, She was also named New York Times Bestselling Author. I was glad to see all the books I read in the Library Thing Catalog. This is a link to my Library Thing Catalog http://www.librarything.com/catalog/lbeauty1205.

# 10 Play around with Image Generators

I would have to say that this assignment was one of my favorites. I choose to play around with the M&M Character Generator. I had fun creating myself and my two best friends as M&M. I had fun playing around with the The Generator Blog, not only did I played around with creating my M&M but I was able to playing around with the Chinese Name Generator which I though was also pretty cool. The reason I choose to do the M&M character generator is because I recently went to M&M World in NYC; and I had a great time.

# 9 Feeding Frenzy

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours:-)


Well for assignment # 9 Feeding Frenzy. I did fool around with the four Search feeds to help me find feeds on fashion. The one I choose to use was Technorati, I found it to be very easy to use, Since there was a tutorial to go along with it. I typed in my search for the feed I was interested in and it gave me all the information I need to add the feed to my bloglines. I also used Syndic8.com and found like two feeds from there.I found a whole lot of feeds for fashion. I love everything about fashion and Style this is why I choose to do my assignment base upon fashion to show my love for fashion. The feeds I choose for fashion was:
Manolo’s Shoe Blog
EMedia Lige Style Fashion News
New York Times Fashion & Style

#8 Make life simple with RSS

Once I’ve read about this assignment I automatically thought this was going to be a challenge for me considering I had no idea about RSS. Then when I did a little research and read more about RSS I said wow that’s what that is. LOL I didn’t realize that it was a family of Web feed that is used to publish frequently update content, such as news headlines and blog entries. I found the YouTube video to be very helpful on showing how to add feeds, which was feely simple. I was successful at setting up my Bloglines account and subscribe to 10 new feeds. I found the tutorials to be very helpful. I actually subscribe to more than 10 feeds. Here is a list of Feeds that also caught my eyes. One of my favorites would have to be MTV News.

1.BBC News
2.Billboard
3.Bloglines/ News
4.CNET News
5.About Women's Fashion

6.MTV News
7.New Urban Legends
8.Newsvine
9.PC Magazine
10.NYT Book Review
11.Yahoo News
12.USA TODAY.com Weather
13.CNN.com
14.Shefinds.com

# 7 Technology

What more would I know about other then my Creative Zen vision m 30GB; it’s a combination of music, photos, and videos in one compact player. My Creative Zen vision m was recommended to me by a friend she told me that this was easier to use than the Ipod. With the Creative Zen you would be able to upload music, videos, and photos on it without using the software. My Creative Zen holds up to 15,000 songs, you are able to watch up to 120 hours of video, and it holds about 10,000 photos. This product is great to use on vacations long trip or whenever, I use my daily. I am truly glad that I purchased this product.

#6 More Flickr Fun

For the Flickr Fun assignment I choose the FD Toys sight. They had a lot of fun Flickr toys on the sight the one that I choose to use was the Hockneyizer I thought it was pretty cool how I was able to create an image from simulated Polaroid’s. I used the Hockneyizer from one of the photos I have on flickr, this picture was of a fountain when I went to the King of Prussia Mall in Philadelphia P.A. I found some other interesting one’s that I did enjoy playing around with the others like the Warholizer I found that one to be also one of my favorites, and even the Bead Art which was very much so interesting. I found this assignment to be quite fun :-)

5# Discover Flickr

The photo you see here is of a fountain located in one of the biggest malls in America King Of Prussia located in Philadelphia, P.A. The first time I’ve visit this mall I was in amazement, I never been in such a big mall like this before, this mall has one of the Largest anchor of store in it, which consist of Macy’s one of my all time favorite department store, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, & JC Penny’s, you name it. This mall is made up of basically two malls that are put together and unfortunately if it’s your first time visiting you’re bound to get lost but I have to say we did pretty well not getting lost. I hate to say but none of the malls that I’ve been to have anything on this mall. Ladies and Gentlemen when you get a chance please do visit this mall; I am sure you will have a blast.