Week 2.4

I have been working on and been a member of Mosman Readers for about a year now, you can find me here. It is a fantastic service and very easy to set up and maintain.

As you can see we use it as a readers advisory tool and although it is hard to get the public actively participating in posting we have found that people are visiting the site to read reviews, half way there. Soon we will have our 100th member, maybe there will be a prize!

We have set it up so that the forum is only used for book reviews and have seperated the discussions into genres. Other members can then comment on someone elses review.

Week 2.3

I also found this week to be a bit confusing, I have used Google analytics before for work and on my own site, so that was not a problem, but the feed burner part didn't really explain what it was for. It seems to track the RSS feed coming from the blog, can it track who accesses this feed or who looks at the site?

The stats available on Google analytics is mindblowing especially when you see them at work on a large site like a council, how is this free?

Week 2.2

I think delicious has a lot of potential to be a great tool. It would take a lot of time to set up but it could be well worth it. The other day I went to a seminar at the State library run by ebsco and was exited to see that it was possible to save searches and articles found on their databases as delicious bookmarks. Very useful for cutting down staff time looking for the same articles over and over for assignments.