Thankyou

Thanks for the course I have gained some valuable skills that I can implement in my workplace.

Week 12.0

As I have mentioned previously we are in the final development stages of our own social networking site, that will incorporate 2.0 technology to allow our users to register as friends, communicate through a facebook style interface, comment about reviews placed by other readers. We are going to keep this site, we hope, to a book review only forum with a library land blog attached that any user can post to. The users will also be able to upload book related photos and video and stylise their own home page.

Our aim is to get reader to reader RA site that is moderated by us but run by the users, in the early stages it will be mostly staff posting which has been a success in the trials. I will post the URL here when we go live in January.

Week 11.0

These aps such as Google docs will cause a small amount of havoc at our library when the patrons finally catch on to them. We currently charge for the use of a word processor, but to use the internet is free. A savvy client could use this to get around paying!!! What is the world coming to.

We have experimented using Google docs for an online roster but we had too many problems with people changing them even though we locked the documents. Several people need access to the documents for rostering purposes and I guess the passwords just got out.

Still haven't found a decent alternative.