Slideshows, screencasting and digital storytelling

I was aware of slideshow websites, i thought the Michael Stephens keynote presentation was fantastic & without a site like this i would never have got to see it. The best part of this week was the screencasting, this was something i was not aware of and can see this being very useful, especially for training purposes. Things like online tutorials for customers on use of catalogue & online databases, also staff training. The only issue was it seemed like for most of these sites you needed latest version of flash, which we do not have at moment, so would have to investigate if we can still create them with older versions of the software.

Nings

I have to say i loved the Mosman Readers ning - very impressive site!!! I think the advantages of a ning is you can have a number of different things - blogs, forums, photos, videos - all togther in one spot which would make it much easier to manage.

Twitter

I have certainly heard of twitter, but thought of it more for personal use, it was very interesting to see how libraries are using this technology. I can see it is a very useful tool to get out information about events happening at the library. I have now signed up for a twitter account and added a link to my blog, i found the site very easy to use and found some interesting people to follow!!!

Evaluation

I had never used Google alerts before, i think this could be a very useful tool and i will definitely be using this in my both my personal & work life.
Survey monkey is a great site, creates good basic surverys and the site is very easy to navigate.

I have signed up to feedburner but I'm not sure how useful it will be on a personal blog, probably better for business websites

Delicious

Have had to skip Twitter for now, I was able to sign up but that's it - no access at work!!

So had a look at Delicious - the library has its own Delicious account which I occasionally use. I have now signed myself up and added a few bookmarks, I also added Gosford Library to my network which is great as i can now access all the fantastic sites they already have on their Delicious page. I also managed to link to my twitter account & put linkroll on my blog. I found delicious quite easy to use and found some really interesting articles by searching Library2.0 tags.