Week 8/Post 18- Social Networking

Today, I set up an account for Facebook. I know lots of young people are using this site, so I want to try and see what it is. Yesterday I play around, and it was fun. My daughter and lots of her friends whom I know have this account. It's nice to look at their pictures. Earlier when my daughter used to talk about Facebook, I always thought that this was some hard technology but I am pleased that I am at least getting familiar with these terms. I think it is a good way to keep in touch with people when they live far away, especially for college students. Although I know that I will never use this site, it's still good to have knowledge.

Week 7/Post 17 - Technology

Technology is great, but it's going too fast for me! Still email and economical long distance phone service is my favorite one. Through email I can communicate with my family in India on regular basis. Earlier we used to communicate mostly with sending letters to each other or making three minute phone calls, but it used to take 10 to 15 days before we received a letter. Through email though, you get the news right away. Another thing I really appreciate, is the wounderful long distance phone service. Now when I make a phone call to India, I don't have to look at the clock for how many minutes I am talking for.

Week 7/Post 16 - Wiki

I setup an account for wiki for myself. I believe wikis are wonderful. I like the idea that if you have materials that would be helpful to other librarians, you add them to wiki. It is great way to share information with the people who care about a certain topics and live in another part of the country. I like the idea of using wikis to create online coummunication. You can create your own website and share other peoples valuable ideas.

Week 6/Post 15 Library 2.0

I spent some time and read 2.0 articles. It's intresting and informative. I think a lot of things we are doing are moving us into the right direction, and this training is among them. Library 2.0 to me means constantly offering new services to users. Library's now have such a strong presence on the internet, an hcpl customer can now live in the any part of the country and still use our services. As we, a library community, try to move forward- the links at ihcpl are very helpful. The idea that people will no longer come to the library has proven wrong. I liked the author that said the library is human. No matter how technoligically advanced libraries become, you will always have patrons that are looking for a human touch.

Week 6/Post 14 - Technorati

I can now see how to use Technorati to search for topics of interest I have. Technorati offers an amazing amount of information, but with a full time job and taking care of the family, I don't think that I will have to go through all this information. I did take a look at the favorite and most linked to blogs. I did find some topics that interest me. Whenever I have time, I will play around with this more.

Week 6/Post 13 Tagging

I have learned quite a bit from these unfamiliar websites. Now I am getting a little more familiar with them. I set myself a delicious account. It was fun playing around with. I added seven book marks so far to my account. My favorite ones are recipes, gaming, and shopping. I see the benefit of tagging for people with lots of books marks in their account. These website have lots of valuable information.

Week 5/Post 12/Library Elf

Library Elf is very easy to set up. I really like the fact that all my library information is on one page. This makes it easy to keep track of everything. This might be even more useful for those with multiple accounts.

Week 5/Post 11/Library thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/agupta

Library Thing is a very useful site. I have been meaning to keep a track of the books I read, but I have never done it. Now I can start a list. I really had a good time creating my own catalog on Library Thing. I am looking forward to adding many more books in my catalog.

week 5/post 10 - avatars

Indian Princess
This is fun. This is first Avatar that i have ever try to create and I really enjoyed it.
http://avatars.yahoo.com

week 4 post 9/Finding Feed

I have searched Feedster and I was able to add gaming to my account. It was a lot of fun. I can't believe that I did it. As I mentioned earlier in my previous post, I am not good with technology, but I am getting a little better every time. I still have to learn more but I am sure by the time we will finish this training, I will be feeling comfortable with using different tools.

week 4/post 8 - RSS

Every week is a new challenge, and this week I subscribed to 10 feeds to my account. It's exciting because I am not good at all with technology. Thanks to Naomi who is helping us, I picked a CNN, Comedy central video, Fast company, whether, NYI movies, Quotes of the day, Yahoo top stories, Astrology and My 23 things. It is very convenient to have access to all this information directly from my blog page.