Well this is it! For someone who started very reluctantly I got quite addicted to this!
Thank you very much NSWPLN Learning 2.0 team for making this learning experience available to us. Thank you also for regular updates and your encouragements along the way. I am sure you would be pleased to know that today I had an opportunity to share some of the things I've learnt with a very grateful customer. She urgently needed access to a word processor to type up her assignment which was due the next day. Ours was booked out for the day, and as it was 6.00pm, there was nothing else available. So I put her on one of the Internet PCs and made her join Zoho! She didn't manage to finish all of it before closing time, but as we know, with Zoho, it doesn't matter! She will go to UNI library early tomorrow morning and finish it before submitting it electronically. She was overjoyed! And I was very pleased!
I would also like to thank all those people who generously shared their "how to" on their blogs and in their commentaries. I have looked at your blogs and read your comments and drew ideas and inspirations from them for my own blog.
Once again, thank you NSWPLN Learning 2.0 team and the very best wishes to you all.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
WRAP UP; SOCIAL NETWORKS & CATCH UP
I have read the wikipedia article on social networking and watched the video clip, which I thought was very good.
Looking at the Social Map, it appears that Face Book, MySpace and Live Journal are the most popular Social Networking sites in the world. It is hard to believe though that Australians use only MySpace!
I liked the idea of Communities of Practice where people of same profession or interest can join in and participate in knowledge development and sharing. I was impressed by the Rotorua Public Library Bebo Page - great way to promote library services and interact with the whole community.
Our council has built a new cultural centre recently. Like the East Renfrewshire Council in Scotland, we also could promote our libraries and upcoming cultural events including theathre productions and movies.
Libraries can also use social networks for profesional networking, creating interesing clubs for young people, sharing of ideas and standardising library practices and procedures.
AS for me, I'm a very private person and can't see myself joining any of those networks. However, having said that, I quite liked the idea of social netwoks being used to keep in touch with family members. I particularly liked the idea of mapping family trees!
The Second Life did not appeal to me at all! I'm afraid balancing my first life is challenging enough!
Looking at the Social Map, it appears that Face Book, MySpace and Live Journal are the most popular Social Networking sites in the world. It is hard to believe though that Australians use only MySpace!
I liked the idea of Communities of Practice where people of same profession or interest can join in and participate in knowledge development and sharing. I was impressed by the Rotorua Public Library Bebo Page - great way to promote library services and interact with the whole community.
Our council has built a new cultural centre recently. Like the East Renfrewshire Council in Scotland, we also could promote our libraries and upcoming cultural events including theathre productions and movies.
Libraries can also use social networks for profesional networking, creating interesing clubs for young people, sharing of ideas and standardising library practices and procedures.
AS for me, I'm a very private person and can't see myself joining any of those networks. However, having said that, I quite liked the idea of social netwoks being used to keep in touch with family members. I particularly liked the idea of mapping family trees!
The Second Life did not appeal to me at all! I'm afraid balancing my first life is challenging enough!
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