LibraryThing

I love LibraryThing. I have been using it for the past two years and try to use it regularly to keep track of those books I think I might want to recommend to someone. The old way of writing them down in a journal never really worked for me as I never had it close by when I was thinking about it and then would promptly forget the name of the book when I did. However, I am almost always near a computer! I set up an account initially to become aware of it and now I think it is one of the greatest sites ever for book lovers. I've used it for Reader's Advisory for customers and being the visual person I am, having the book covers to see also helps me remember the book. In fact, I used LibraryThing today in coming up with a book to talk about at our staff meeting. What I think is funny is that one of the members that has many of the same books I do, I think is a staff member at Fish Creek but I haven't identified them yet! Actually, I discovered the website BookMooch through this person and I loved finding about a site where books can be exchanged.

DOCumenting the Calendar

Aargh. Must be a Friday afternoon. I did enjoy exploring the Google calendar and would probably use it at home, especially if I could synchronize it with my Outlook calendar at work. However, although the instructions seemed relatively straight forward to do, I had no success whatsoever in trying to import my work calendar to the Google calendar. I would have to play around with this for more time than I have to spend on it right now and so I'm left feeling somewhat frustrated. To further add to my joy, the link to Google docs did not work either from the 2.0 blog or the direct URL - I kept getting a redirect message and an ominous clicking sound so I thought I would leave it for today. I do mean to go back and look at Google docs though as this certainly seems like a very useful application.

I really enjoyed the Social Media Revolution video and in fact, passed it on to some people. It is very interesting and insightful and Youtube is a great method to show this type of information.

Picturing Videos

The main advantages YouTube and Flickr are the ease of use and ability to share. These features will be essential, I think, for any new and emerging technology. They also have an important time-wasting entertainment factor built in too! I tried Flickr a couple of years ago just to see how it works and I was impressed by the number of new features they have since added - such as creating cards. Flickr is great for sharing pictures with family and friends but I'm hesitant about it being the sole repository of my pictures. I guess I'm still too old fashioned and need to see the print version and have several backups too!
Youtube really has gone beyond just the astonished chipmunk and entertaining cats videos (although I still confess a weakness for them!). Definitely this is the go to source for music and entertainment questions, both historical and current. Very topical relevant information can be accesssible instantly and I'm not surprised that it's the number 3 search engine now!