Thing #35 Mini or micro blogging

Have joined Twitter and posted an update. I am not sure that I will use it as it seems the type of thing only the y gen would use. I don't think any of my friends know about it or would be interested. I guess it could be useful to 'talk' at work as a national group, especially if we had a national reference desk.

Thing #32 Online file storage

I have gone into a queue to get access to Omnidrive but have registered for box.net. I uploaded my uni assignments and some pics of Vietnam. I can think of heaps of ways of using this at work!!

Thing #31 Plaxo

This appears to be similar to Facebook and MySpace but could be more useful for sharing articles, links and calenders with workmates. I like the look of it better than Facebook too! I'll have more fun with it later.....

Thing #29 Scrapblog

I LOVE it! Hours of fun. I could see some application for this at work for sharing photos on a blog for example. We have just received lots of photos of last week's ATO Litigation Forum and it would be fun to put them into a scrap blog with comments regarding speakers etc.

It is very time consuming and I couldn't do it from work as it wouldn't speak to my Flickr account etc.

Thing #27 - Photobucket

So far I still prefer Flickr, that may just be because I am more familiar with it and Photobucket is slow on our system..... It is good that you can add moving pictures, although I think Flickr is considering doing that too (to much opposition).

I tried to create a link to my photos but it doesn't appear to work...

Thing #26 Widgets

I have widgets at home on my Mac and also use iGoogle so am aware of the wonders of widgets. A lot of it becomes useless clutter but you end up keeping what you need and sometimes can find a gem. I thought this quote one was cute, but it remains to be seen what type of quotes they are ......

It would be great if we could create library widgets for staff to drag onto their desktops (catalogue, eLibrary etc)!

I searched for an AFL widget on yourminis and there is only US football :-(

Thing #25: Letterpop - newsletters

This looks fun for creating personal newsletters and would be great in some organisations. Letterpop

With our style guide and templates I don't suppose we could use it for work, outside the library anyway. It may have some application for eAlerts and SDI's but would probably be too difficult to maintain a list of subscribers.

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