#13 Del.icio.us

There's a lot of potential for staff with a group account. I didn't have a big play with this, but I think the concept is great. I set up an account so I will use delicious again. As I tend to move from computer to computer at work, I have to remember what my favourites were each time I log in. So this will (hopefully) be useful and easy to use.

#12 Rollyo

I really liked Rollyo. I think it would be a great element to add to a webpage and for personal use as well. I'd be curious to see how well it worked with our subsciption databases. Something for me to pursue at a later date. Again its a really easy tool to use for specific topics. I wonder how well it searches for cheap flights.... I created a newspaper search simply because that was the first thing that came to mind.

#11 Library Thing

I had a lot of fun with LibraryThing and much like with a reference enquiry - when someone asks you what you like to read, you can't think of an answer. So I had to resort to my usual suspects to add.

On a side note this is how much Library 2.0 is getting me hooked - I started fiddling with the html to make it fit within the left panels. Naturally I had to go back to fix my Slide widget too. Oh dear, I have digressed. But it's all about the learning and how I can apply it in my day-to-day work.

Back to LibraryThing, as another staff member has suggested, there is no reason why we couldn't create a group for our library users. Another great thing about LibraryThing was it was sooo nice and easy to sign up...I just have to remember what username and password I used.

#10 Image generators

In the past I've used ImageChef for a few things. I was so excited when I first used it, that I could actually do some interesting things to images to present the information at hand in a more interesting format. I suppose this is the main thing about these generators is that we can take something we know, have expectations of how it should look and then mash it up to engage the audience.


Have to say thanks to another 2.0 blogger for this site (that's you Emma!), South Park Studio. As a fan of the occasional episode, i couldn't resist. It was fun deciding all the different options, and I could only pick black for clothing colours 'cos that's all I can choose at the moment.

The generator blog - how many options were there to choose from! Definitely need more than 15 minutes for that one. But I had to have a go at Slide. Having seen in it on other blogs and on Facebook, I needed to have a go. Although I had trouble linking my Flickr account, I was able to work around it and load the photos in a different way.