Answerboard Librarians and blowing my own horn December 4, 2007

yay, I got a Best Answer on Yahoo Answers–actually its my second.
I did say I’d blow my own horn
The question was on Alexander the Great, so how could I not answer it.
My BA is in Classics, so I spent an enjoyable few minutes and found what she was needing to know.

You can find it here.

I’m an AnswerBoard Librarian and hang out most often on Yahoo under cali_librarian.  The premise of Slam the Boards, is to go ahead and answer questions just waiting to be asnwered and identify yourself as a librarian. Its kind of cool to see your answers pitted against others. 

Finding questions and answering them is a L O T of fun.

November 30, 2007

Check out my Slide Show of my LibraryThing books! November 9, 2007

I can’t put a widget in yet to LibraryThing, so I thought I’d play around and post some bookcover images from my LibraryThing account and give you an introduction to Slide.com
Slide.com is a FREE slide show site that allows you to create slides without joining or becoming a member.
It makes it easy to create slide shows with no needed software to download. It takes only minutes to do it and you get an interesting, sometimes exciting result.
The display results are changable and varied. I use Slide.com for our Library’s blog where I will put the covers of upcoming book discussion. It works very well, and its so easy to do.
Give it a try! 

Heartland Workshop Notes October 26, 2007

Heartland Workshop Slides

Web 2.0 is all about fun.

Try these applications below and join in.

I’ll post more on each of these with more detail in upcoming days, but here is a good list to get you started.

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Flickr
photo storage and so much more
FUN with your pictures
click the link to find out about photo books, stickers, calling cards, calendars…

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del.icio.us
A social bookmarks manager. Using bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them and keep them on the Web.

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Meebo
Multiplatfrom Instant Message service that requires no download.
Meebo creates an IM widget for your blog, too.

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YouTube
Go to Catagories to get a sense of what you can find.
Upload your video then stream from YouTube to your own blog by imbedding the link.

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Twitter
Literally a minute by minute social network. See a timeline of random moments.
A good site to get some information on Twitter, is:
here

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LibraryThing
Catalog your own collection. A book collectors dream and easy to use. LibraryThing also offers a widget for your blog, which shows some of your titles, and links to your page. Cataloged through the Library of Congress and Amazon.com and more.

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Widgets and Gadgets
I think there is a widget or gadget out there for everyone. The variety is staggering and very exciting. google gadgets yahoo widgets

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Slide.com
Instant slides from picture files. Easy and fast with no logging in.

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SlideShare
Share your PowerPoint Slides online. Slideshare takes some time before your slides appear so don’t upload your slides, so give yourself a day before your presentation to make sure your slides appear.