Youtube

No worries on this 'thing'. I use Youtube for watching music videos/comedy on a regular basis, and it isn't too great a step to see the value of using it for promoting particular libraries and the services they can provide -the Open University has a pretty good site for that. As a familiar tool to most of today's students I think it is a good way for explaining what resources are available, something that quite a lot of the American university libraries seem to have done. Now, back to the two ronnies swear box sketch...

Podcasts

Important note regarding this 'thing' : it involves using headphones in the office, which means your colleagues have carte blanche to mock you mercilessly without the danger of you realising. Nothing new there then. Anyhow, I was feeling a bit sceptical about the professional applications of podcasts - not that that stopped me laughing like a hyena whilst listening to the radio 4 comedy podcasts from the News Quiz. However, having also listened to the podcast of the 'gems of the Bodleian library' I see that there are uses for this technology to promote both the library and its collections. Time to get rid of the earphones and try to catch some of the ridicule doubtless coming in my direction as I write!

Social bookmarking and tagging - Delicious

I suppose that with a bit more experience of using delicious it might get to be useful, and I can see the use of having quick access to bookmarks from other networks for rapidly getting to specific subjects as a professional tool. Still not sure how much I'd use it socially.

Social bookmarking and tagging - Delicious

OK, have completed the first part of delicious, but I can't see much benefit to it , as opposed to just using the favourites button on the normal toolbar. Maybe if I was moving around different computers on a regular basis...

Week 4 - a picnik

Well, I may not be in danger of rivalling David Bailey, but I've managed to get to grips with the basics of picnik and using the special effects on the site have transformed what was a reasonable picture of some seals trying to mind their own business into a night vision shot instead. This after I'd carefully adjusted the colour and contrast of the normal photo.

week 4

OK, have flickr'd into being. Happily the 23 things instructions are very good, and with some help from Jackie I've managed to pop a couple of photos from my exile in the northern lands on the site. I'm just waiting for clearance to join the exclusive 23 group and then the sky's the limit! Well, at least flickr is the limit.

RSS feeds

Easy isn't it? Well, once I'd understood the instructions. I have to admit that they are very nearly idiot proof, but as one who strives to meet any challenge, I did spend an irate few minutes trying to find the RSS feed on my google reader page rather than the 23 things blog.
Still, the window has been repaired and my PC wasn't very damaged after its multi-storey fall.
I can see the use of the RSS feeds in keeping updated on sites of interest for things such as the latest sports news, or on a professional level any changes to services that a library might want to make known.