Thing 10 - Wikis

Our library has a really great wiki. I'm supposed to be my dept's "caretaker" of our portion of it, so I had to learn fast with help from Brian, my favorite wiki guru. We use the wiki in many ways, from making impromptu sign-up calendars to posting training manuals, to what to say for the closing announcements, find our epac, and "who's who in Circulation", etc, etc. Our wiki works well, I use it every day.

Thing 9 Online Collaboration Tools

Very fun assignment, editing the Declaration. My kids are big fans of original documents since watching National Treasure.

I'm getting a bit overwhelmed with signing up for this and that, I'm no longer using original user ids.

I thought Google docs was more straightforward and easier to use than Zoho. I can see that these could be useful, for example, if you are collaborating with another librarian on a conference and you both need to be tweaking a document.

Thing 8 Share Your Creations

I love sharing photos. I come from a fairly large extended family who don't live near me, so we have found various methods for "seeing" each other. Some started with MySpace, showcasing music they've written and performed, some use snapfish so we can order prints of family events, most recently we have been updating our own facebook accounts and looking at each others' albums and tagging each other. It's fun until your niece takes a photo of your butt and not only posts it, but tags it as mine for all to see!

I used PictureTrail to do a little collage of 2 of my kids staging a car accident. It was easy to use and post to my blog. There were lots of options for displaying your photos in a fun way.

There are plenty of library uses for sharing photos. Show an event held at the library. Show people enjoying the library. Show upcoming features at the library. Show parts of the library on the main website. Show new books, featured authors, blah, blah.