OMG..............
I can't actually believe I reached the end. This was a great experience and I learned a lot doing these exercises. My favorite part of this training was opening my blog and record my experiences and RSS feeds Google news through Google Reader to my blog to read the news. Another interesting one was Google Doc which I use all the time to help my customers and they just love it :-D
I got frustrated with Rollyo and wiki sandbox and try to go back and play with them later in my library life:(
I think librarians can use a lot of these at work and it would have been great if this kind of training continues with more time to practice since we are the librarians of the digital age.~:-O

Learn about Audiobooks
I created an account with Overdirve and downloaded my favorite book The 100 simple secrets of happy people by David Niven on to my computer and put two items on hold. I looked at NetLibrary and found it easy to use and follow.I think Ebooks are wonderful service that libraries provide for their customers,they need less space and hundreds and thousands of books can be stored in the computer and customers can access,download and enjoy them.

iTunes and Podcasts

I have been using iTunes downloading my favorite music to my iPhone and listen while cooking or exercising.

Podcast- I discovered Podcastalley.com a good source for finding the top popular podcasts. I searched for library podcasts and found 163 results. Very rich site with lot of information.

Discover YouTube
YouTube is really fascinating and I often use it to post my favorite videos from Persian poets to the advice of the world's best spiritual masters to my Facebook account and share it with my freinds and family!:-D. It is one of the best tools of web 2.0 , easy to use and I love it.

Discover anysite from the Web 2.0 awards list
I chose imcookedwhich is a web community for video recepie sharing. You name it ,this site has it all with step by step videos in preparing the food. You can even film and upload a video and share it with others which I haven't done yet but I am planning to share some Persian recepie in the near future~:-)
I also chose revolution health which is very rich in all sort of health information features from conditions, diseases, healthy living,drugs, treatment and so on. It would be an excellent source to help our customers with all sorts of health questions.

Online productivity tools

I choose Google Doc for its powerful application. I have heard about it before but never had a chance to play with it. Since I have an gmail account I used the same account for this and created some documents on my favorite Persian poets and Shared it with my freinds on Google doc and my Facebook account. I think this is a wonderful tool and I will use it to keep track of my favorites things online. Thank you Google Doc.

Playing in the Maryland Sandbox

My experience with Wiki Sandbox (Maryland) was unsuccessful. I spent a good amount of time playing with Maryland wiki sandbox and I tried multiple times to login, and add my favorite web sites but there was no link.

Oh my dear Wiki....
I think Wiki is a wonderful tool for public libraries to educate their users about their resources and information. It is even more useful for internal use in libraries for planning and communication between staff. We have a Wiki at Olney library which is very informative and keeps staff with the latest library news and events, it encourage us to add content and exchange ideas on a different subjects. I like the SJCPL and Book lovers wikis for their simple structures and educational resources they provides to their communities. Wiki is a must for public libraries and it opens up a new possibilities for collaboration between libraries and their users.

The future of libraries

The future of libraries are in hands of Librarian 2.0 who would need to be multi-skilled , understanding the diverse needs of community groups and engagement with the community. The Librarian 2.0 should keep up with new technology and use it to meet customers needs and wants to overcome the challenges that are facing libraries.

Technorati

I spent more than 45 mintutes to explore Technorati and there are lot of things that I like to explore. I find this valuable tool very useful for libraries and librarians to enhance customer service.

Del.icio.us
I think this is a very useful tool. The immediate benefit is the fact that I no longer need to use the browser on my Laptop to keep track of my bookmarks . Another good thing is that I can share it publicly.

Rollyo
Rollyo would have been useful if it actually worked. I tried many times but it did not work for me . I think I have spent more than 45 minutes to work on this search roll . Sorry, it is time to move on to the next Thing .

Library thing

This is really a handy place for me to keep track of my personal reading and share it with other people. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/effimirmohamadi

Online generator

This part has been my favorite so far. I played with my Yahoo Avatar but had a hard time inserting it to my blog.I made my own Hollywood star through Generator blog which was fun to do and posted it to my blog and my Facebook account for the world to see.

RSS FEED

I have always been curious about the small orange signs on our website, but never knew how useful it can be. It took me quite a bit of time to figure out how to feed my favorite sites into my blog from Bloglines .

http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs

Technology Related

I love my I phone. It is like a small computer that I can carry everywhere I go.
It is very handy and easy to use with a lot of features like Ipod and an internet service in one. I just love it.

Trading card

Discovering Flickr services(3rd party applications and mashups)and Playing with cards was not too bad but coming up with the title for my card was the hardest.I think I did good job!!!! To make this, I used http://bighugelabs.com/deck.php

Flickr experience


This was not really a simple task . There is a lot of information in this site that I like to learn . It definately took me more than 45 minutes.I've downloaded some family pictures on my Flickr account.My next project ,working on a Trading card.