Thing 21 iGoogle

Have been having fun with this - have managed to set up iGoogle with gadget links to the many and varied things that I have joined - so now access is all on one page which is good

Think I will make time to get it organised properly so that it is useful and therefore will use it

Thing 20 Google Book Search

this user's library - Google Book Search

A link to my library for what it is worth - not much added. Between this and LibraryThing think I could find them useful when I am on the search for reading material

Thing 19 Google Documents

Have only had a fairly brief look at this - not sure that it is something I would use although I can see why it could be useful - would have thought we would have better ways of sharing documents in the library

When I have time might get back to it to check it out further - hard to see it taking over from Word or the like but who knows!!! Although now I think about it I think that I read somewhere that web based applications will be the way of the future

Thing 18 Google Maps

I havent been able to spend a lot of time on this but think it is good fun - interesting to see your house etc on it - found my family home where I grew up in the country

Liked My Maps - could spend time fooling around with it

Cant say that I can see any use for this in the library...........

Thing 17 Exploring Social Networking

Have had a look at MySpace and some of the sites put up by libraries - most seem to be for the younger viewers and I can see that they would be attractive to them

Have spent a bit of time exploring MySpace itself and it seems to have a number of tools in it that would be useful to have in one place - couldnt find anyone I know who was on it

Joined Facebook which I find easy to use and have to say couldnt believe the number of people that I know that I found on it - mostly my kids generation but to my surprise found a number of my vintage - think it would/will be very useful to keep up with what is going on in the lives of friends family etc - can see myself wasting sometime on this!!!!!!!!!!

Thing 16 YouTube

Go the Cats!! 2008 is looking good no that I want to tempt fate!!

Couldnt resist putting this up - think it is amazing footage

It seems that there is a video for just about anything you can think of - I can see why people are into this. Site was very easy to get around and simple to upload.

Not sure about library use tho....

16 down and 7 to go>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thing 15 Flickr

Just started looking at this and found this photo which I had to upload - go the Hockeyroos!!

Sadly not to be - signs of better to come.

Having created a Flickr account and uploaded photos etc I have now forgotten my login which is really useful - so havent done the tag thing as of yet

I can see that this would be a very good way to share photos - specially for those of us who have family in the country and overseas - much easier that trying to remember to get copies to them in other ways