Podcasts

To be honest podcasts for me have been the least favourite topic we have covered whilst undertaking the Web 2.0 course. I am more of a person who likes to see and visualise whoever is speaking to me. For that reason I couldn't imagine someone like me ever enjoying Audio Books or Playaways. I don't want to hear it, only read it or visualise it.
I can see how they can be valuable in a Library and I appreciate some of the great ideas such as using them for Guest Speakers and Lecturers. I think they could also be used for talks from Authors and even reviews from Bookclubs.
Someone mentioned that Heritage Trails already make use of Podcasts which is great and I think for that same reason Art Galleries could also benefit.
Whilst I am not a fan of Podcasts, I do appreciate Tripple J's use of them and enjoy the Live Music Feeds and Unearthed Pods. Maybe I just need to move with the times a bit more and discover a few more fantastic podcast sites.

Online Video

Another fun session, exploring online videos.  I use YouTube from time to time and love looking at music clips.  Here is a song from my youthy/grunge days that I absoloutely love.  Please note that this was a long time ago and also that the video may make you a little dizzy.



So I have copy and posted, fingers crossed that this works.
I enjoyed looking at Library Videos - the Best Of.   Some Libraries have some pretty cool concepts.
I would love to see videos of some of our regular craft activities and posted on YouTube.  It would be a great way of promoting just how fun our Library is.

Twitter......tweet, tweet

What a fun topic to study is Social Networking!!!  Hard to believe we are actually studying/working.  I have been a member of Facebook for sometime and went through a period of absoloutely being addicted to it.  However, in the last six months or so I have had issues with privacy and went through a period of deleting most of my photos.  I think the privacy setup is extremely tricky to navigate around and have more than once considered deactivating my account.  Just recently, I was what you call compromised.  Someone was sending messages to all of my friends regarding making money.  I had to reset my password and my privacy settings and it was not particularly the easiest or most pleasant thing to do.

Twitter on the other hand.....oh what fun.  I reluctantly set up my twitter account as asked to do by Web 2.0 and was pleasently surprised to see Tweets from some of my favourite Celebrities.  I had never been interested in joining Twitter and still am a bit unsure about what I should be Tweeting about.  Is Tweeting the same as posting a Facebook status?  I did a search on some of my favourite celebrities such as James Franco and Oprah and can't believe that they are all Tweeting.  Is it really them????  This is all new to me but I am sure I will be spending a bit more time on Twitter these days and less time on Facebook.