Facebook

I now have a Facebook account and 1 friend (my brother)! I sent a note to my brother and he answered. I have been playing around. I added a lot of details and I added a photo. I also joined the American Library Assn. group. I found the Ask A Librarian group as well for Florida's digital reference. I am still playing and trying to get more friends. Great site and great tool.

Overdrive

I had some fun and some frustration playing with overdrive. I cannot download any application to my computer so the only think I could use through overdrive was the overdrive media console. I did get to use that though. I checked out 1984 and downloaded. After several tries got it done and listen to a portion of it. It took quite a while to download each section. I also placed a hold on a book and am waiting for the email on that. I did play a bit with bookmarks too. Quite a great product. I will continue downloading parts and listening to "1984".

Podcasts

I looked at each of the 3 podcast directories. They are great but it is not easy to search. I found several podcasts on library related issues. I also found some on banjo stuff. I subscribed to the Sirsidynix Institute's podcasts. They offer free classes by podcast on MANY library related topics. I have taken several and they are great!
http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/archive.php

YouTube and online videos

I have had fun playing with youtube. I am working on putting my syncronized lights display on. Haven't gotten that done yet. I do have some links to youtube videos on the sidebar to the right. The following are some fun videos I found. My all time commercial is the bottom one only be prepaired when you watch it, it is a 9/11 tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwCn-D5xFdc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWb2zaSrU5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYAnhpU9o0

I think this a great site and I could browse for hours.

Web 2.0 awarded sites

I had fun playing today. I found several sites that were fun. One allows you to link or embed online free games. One allows you to Instant Message using several different IM providers. One that allows you to post and read one sentance stories. One that allows you to select types of drinks when you put in ingredients. I had the most fun with one that allows you to create your own toolbar to add to IE.

http://browardcountylibrary.ourtoolbar.com/ This is a toolbar I created including BCL sites. Don't click if you don't want to download.

Zoho Writer

I played a bit with Zoho Writer. It is a great resource. I will definately use it for shared documents. I also played with Zoho shows. There are limits. I will probably not use it frequently as there seems to be a size limit and limits to features. Eg. I wanted to add a page border and could not figure out to do that. I tried also to import some documents that I had created. If that would have worked that would have been great as this is a presentation that several people have input to. It did not as my file was too big to import.