Thing 10 - Tagging & Delicious

I love Delicious and have been using it since it was del.ic.ous or whatever they started with that was oh so clever. Since I use 3-4 computers in my life I'm their perfect customer. My favorites are always a delicious tag away.

Professionally it helped me immensely during the past 5 months as I was researching other library sites and tagging them in categories that I kept referring to [blogs, evanced, aquabrowser, great home pages, navigation, favoritewebsites]. Plus I was able to share those sites with staff.

I tried furl last year and returned to delicious.

Thing 9 - Sharing

See slideshare below which I talked about in the previous post. I created a flickr badge earlier of my trip to Monterey in October where I attended the Internet Librarian Conference. See that on the left.

These 2.0 features are both great things to use on library websites. The slideshare is a great tool for online training.

Quick Tour Of Library Website

View more presentations from Alachua county Library district.

Using these things

Working on the new ACLD website has left me with no discretionary time to do any Things lately--kind of ironic. But this weekend in working on the site I have actually used some of these things. I uploaded the new website presentation I've been using to tour all our branches and departments. First I uploaded to Slideshare and then used a Slideshare widget to post it to the website itself on our new Library Tips & Tools page. I also posted the Common Craft video of RSS in Plain English because we couldn't explain it better.

I put a Meebo widget here but nobody seems to IM anymore. I also was updating my Shelfari account which I've had for quite awhile and put that widget at the bottom of this blog. Granted these two didn't have anything to do with the new website but they were easy to do and I needed to accomplish something in 10 minutes or less!!