The Final Post in the Fence That Encapsulates This Little Adventure

Well it all comes to a close here, well the weekly task part anyway, the actual incorporating of the new innovations that this course has shown me is now the goal, or perhaps the gaol that keeps me occupied now?

Social networking and its I have to say has been one of the many trepidations that have had with my own Internet usage, mainly to do with how one can present oneself to others, and of course having to confine my personality to a singular scrolling page of text, of course you can get other facets though sound and video snippets. Though I will have to make the admission that I am a bit of a sucker for MMORPG's, They are certainly an interesting place of social interaction, much like the Second Life 3-D world but with more dungeons, which I'm sure Second Life has hehe.

Of course when you apply this to a scenario to a library, it can be seen as the library wanting to befriend its users, rather than than the limited interaction we get with patrons, we will have a neutral place to exchange ideas and get feedback and even suggestions on services. Events at the library could be sent to friends, promotional videos or soundbites made, and even befriending other libraries online to perhaps brainstorm new ideas for promotion and interlibrary exchanges. The possibilities are well worth exploring, many libraries already use wiki's for internal staff interaction, why not open it up to the public, after all, we are a public library, it seems only right to have a web presence where people can come to visit and interact.

Anyway I am really glad I took up this challenge, and despite my misgivings and skepticism of the interenet as the ultimate source of information, it does not mean I should be ignorant of how it can be used to benifit the library and its users. Huzzah!

Signing off,

Keith Suburban.

The 11th hourly installment.

Well, More programs ahoy! I think the ones we looked at this week are valuable additions to the sphere of library use, especially for patrons to maximise their use of Internet access computers that they do not own. Since they are unable to save any works other than on a USB stick, they could instead save them to the web, where they could access them anytime anywhere! and with Google Docs times saving, you don't even have to worry about using a word processor! and this combined with zamzar means you can convert it to any format that you require, which would have been really handy last week when a student came in needing to convert a doc file into a pdf! oh to have been up to date! I will rue the day...today!

and with Jott, the future of online communication awaits! Internet voice chatting could spell the end of the telecommunication monopoly that they have over the populace! unite my intrafriends unite!

Keith