$50!!

Thank you so much - what a pleasant surprise! I won the draw for the voucher for starting up a blog again... I guess it should go on Sissi - poor woken up critter...

As a personal mission this time around (like the tags and word cloud the first time...) I think I want to find out where I can get a 'better deal' for a background/set up/ whatever... (Have a look at 'Words of Misery' in my "Blog'eagues" for an example...)

Week 3: Twitter

Finally I tweet! (And already someone called Marissa [url supplied but I deleted it]with a tweet that says...."more sexy pics of me... etc..." is following me! She has been blocked, I hope! How to learn about such stuff in a rush!)

Is it easy to use? Hmmm - probably too much so...
Would customers find it simple? They might - but this would be the generation that uses their mobile to email folk and to post things on e.g. Facebook... not everyone...
Could we use this in the learn.nets and in our workrooms? Perhaps not to the same extent as blogs in my opinion... it doesn't seem as 'profound', if I can use that word. However, at the 2009 conference folk were using it, and that's great for those far away - but it was distracting to those sitting next to them!
Do you think that you're likely to use this site again? Hmmm... I have avoided it in the past, and I may just continue to do so... personally I am "online" enough without adding this.
What could Manukau Libraries promote via Twitter? Next generation stuff... YA...
What would you use Twitter for? See above. nothing
Would you promote this service to customers? If they required it... "Customer Service" - walking in the customer's shoes....

Week 2: Zamzar

Great stuff! Zamzar worked like a dream. This will be fantastic for our public in the Learn.net domain. And it was simple. Now all we need is free email services.
Could we use this in our workrooms? Yes - we could create .pdf files that we could use in classes which we could email to folk...
Do you think that you're likely to use this site again? Probably. (Which is saying something!)
Would you promote this site to customers? Yes, if they needed it or I thought it would solve a problem or two...

Herman Charles Bosman... The Rooinek

One of the saddest stories I know...page 71, if you get lost...
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Week 1 : Blogger

How could you use this in your role? As a librarian I could use this in both professional development - "my own comments on what's happening in the world of librarianship" - and in my Customer Services role I could use this to keep in contact with some of my 'customers' - like the reading groups...
What worked for you? Making it pretty and selecting what I wanted in there...
What didn't? Having to do it (this was in the first year we did it..) - and I also would prefer it to be more personal than as mentioned above... guess one should have TWO blogs then???
How could a library use a blog? What would customers get out of a library blog? Would you promote this to customers? To all three questions - the first comments apply...
What amazed and surprised me? The amount of blogs out there... a bit like reader's advisory work - it doesn't REDUCE the choices!!!

Time to wake Sissi up again....

I can see it's time to rise and shine and get cracking on the blogging again with Manukau Libraries Web 2.0!! Oooh dear.... don't know how much time I'll have this time round!