Taking advantage of Web 2.0

Since I'm part-time and pretty much out of the loop, it's hard for me to speculate on how the library can best take advantage of Web 2.0. I do think del.icio.us has some possibilities, esp. when for the reference librarians. Sometimes we manage to find a needed piece of information on the internet, but then are unable to duplicate the search later. Using del.icio.us might be of some help in avoiding that dilemma.

Linda

Metacafe better than YouTube?

Earlier we tried to embed videos into our blogs with no success using YouTube's code. I recently came across Metacafe, which is on the list of Web 2.0 awards. Metacafe claims to be able to embed video in blogs, so I'm giving it a try here. If this works, it's another Conan the Librarian video. I love this video! ;-)



Conan the Librarian-Return your books on time - Funny bloopers R us

Hoping this works,

Linda

Google Docs

Today I saved a Word file to Google documents so I could edit it here at the library. I learned that there's no way to put tabs into this kind of document (at least not that I could find easily) so I'd have been better off cutting and pasting the document into Word before doing my editing. This is HTML, after all, not word processing. Pretty handy, though, if you're away from home and don't have access to MS Word or whatever program you regularly use.

I'm going to try cutting and pasting this into my blog as Ed suggested to see what happens. I suppose I should try to make it more interesting, but I'm really not inclined to do so.

I just opened Blogger and didn't expect to have to log in again, since I already had Google Docs open, but I did.

That's all for now.

Linda

PS: It worked, but left three lines between paragraphs instead of just one.

L.