Week 1 : Box.net - online file storage

I'm thinking to use this in our new Chinese book selection. What I can do is share the new Chinese book lists from bookstores and all our Chinese liaisons could select at one place and mark on one file. That means I don't have to conbine each branch's list together and will save a lot of time for me. Wow interesting.
I do think it'll take some time to get familiar with it. So I'm not sure whether our customers will be interested in it. Maybe the young ones will. What doesn't work for me is upload files. I still haven't uploaded one file yet maybe because of the staff computer's accessibility. I'll try it on learnet or personal computer later.

Week 6 : Facebook - playing nicely with others

I created a new account on Facebook because I forgot the one I used for the first Web2 training. Tried to add Betsy as my friend but wait for approval. Added comments on both topics. Spent quite some time to find a library on Facebook. Finally I find Australian libraries gateway and through that I visited Sydney Library and know they just had a writting competation and the winner is "Wireless Made It Possible by Ashish Rai (First Prize)".
Personally I am not a fan of facebook because I don't feel comfortable to put my photos and details onto webspace. But for library and some people it's very useful and good place to social and promote themselves. I found some customers in library using facebook and most of them just use them as a social tool or network.

Week 5 : Music files and mp3s

I explored MP3.COM because I think the site is easy to remember. I like it clearly tell you where to find FREE music to download while some other music website is not. If customer want it I definitely will recommend this site.

Week 4 : Books and social networking

GoodReads is another good website that I should add into my collections. It'll be useful for customers reference or myself.

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Week 3 : Twitter - micro-blogging at a glance

I'm proudly to say that I already followed Manukau Libraries since it started on twitter although I haven't twitted a lot. I have 4 followers and I know one of them I guess. Manukau Libraries can promote our events and things like that which we already did anyway.

Week 2 : Zamzar - converting file formats

I tried to convert a word doc to a pdf with Zamzar. Then I got the email links to download. It's really helpful in our job because I got customer with .docx before and couldn't open with our learn.net computers. Now we have another tool to help them. Good stuff.

Week 1 : Blogger - set up your own blog

Another round of Web 2.0 training. Hopefully I can get more familiar with it and appy them in my daily job.