It's been a year!?

I can't believe it's been a year since I posted to my own blog! Well, it's been a busy year! Work is great and busier than ever! Slammed by Budget cuts and losing staff and a lot of customers coming in wanting to apply for food stamps, unemployment, updating their resumes, it's a very sad state of affairs. This is a time when those who can, and can't, help others.

Luckily i've been able to continue dancing with my friend Susan so that's a very good thing. I've also started dancing Ballroom at the Star Ballroom on Atlantic Boulevard. I'm having a ball! (no pun intended)

Yes, this is all Library related because Susan and I dance in a room at the, currently being renovated, Fort Lauderdale Library, on the ARTServe side and Karen, who owns Star Ballroom runs the Driver Safety Classes Sponsored by AARP which we host at my Library. So you see, it's all related and it's all good!

I have to wish my family the best of holidays and more of the best in the New Year, 2009.

Everyone have great Holidays and a Terrific New Year!!!!

Facebook

Facebook is extremely addicting! I don't want to stop working with it! I've found so many friends and groups! I've already gotten in touch with two friends within the first 5 minutes of having my account and inviting them to join me. This is such a blast! So many people, places and aspects able to be in one place at one time is phenomenal. Wow, what's next! I'm ready, if I can stop adding and playing on my Facebook space! Brilliant!

Exploring Overdrive

Overdrive is extremely easy. There are myriad titles and subjects to choose from to keep the closeted customer away from the Library and very happy! This is one great way to reach out to those customer's that don't necessarily want or cannot come into a library building.

podcasting

Podcast feeds are great, you get to pick what you want, I've participated in a lot of educational podcasts dealing with Weblibrary issues and have learned and applied a lot to my daily library routine. Podcasts can be personal and public and just a lot of fun. Here are some I subscribe to on my google page.
Joan

http://www.google.com/ig

Exploring UTube

Utube can be good and bad. Of course we only talk in positive ways in the Library atmosphere so that is what I am going to focus on. UTube could always be used as a training tool for any customer or staff member on any subject. I think it's a resource that could save any entity loads of money, time and space. At one point PowerPoint Presentations were all the rage, now it's rss feeds, teleconference and web meetings which are becoming more and more prolific. With the advent of utube, we can actually have thousands of customers at one time logging in and learning what we know! How great is that? The simplest, downside, which we take care of a lot of, is the customer that doesn't have a computer and the size of the utube session. However, I've said it before, I'm sure there will be a way soon, the way technology is going, to make things smaller and faster and that includes utube broadcasts or sessions. What's your Library UTube? I'm a Librarian with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance, here are some clips from utube that I think are fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p3lPw3LmKQ

Web 2.0 Awards Exploration

You know, the more I find out, the more I learn that there's always more 'out there'. I thought I knew a lot, well I can say now that I truly do. I will never know as much as I think I do. These award sites were amazing. The way they were put together. I look at them and then I look at mine and I search for my delete button! :D Hey, everybody has their talents, my mom is the visual artists, these people are the computer geniuses and I'm the performing artist. We are all different and special in our own ways. But, we're all good at our own specialty. This just isn't mine and I applaud the genius of these others who happily surpass my futile efforts going by in waves of technological dust! But I am having a good time! Wasn't this supposed to be fun?
Joan

Online Productivity

My document documents my amazement! I'm an all-in-one kinda' gal and ZoHo Writer and GoogleDocs have it! Color me fat and happy all the way! You can read my giddiness in my doc...

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dd8cxp87_0f672htf3&hl=en