YRead

I attended the YRead Conference in Carroll Co. this weekend. I don't remember knowing about the first YRead held in 2006 but this is planned to alternate years with Books for the Beast.

The facility was great--nice auditorium, one book group per classroom--not as crowded as it can get at the Roland Park facility.

I chose the Adventure genre because the featured speaker, Terry Trueman, had a book in this group and I wanted to read Peak by Roland Smith. Peak turned out to be my favorite, and I highly recommend the sound recording. Hurricane by Trueman was ok and could easily be recommended to high level J readers. Zane's Trace by Allan Wolf and The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean were challenging in their own ways. I will write more detailed reviews on GoodReads.

Exploration 7: Wikis

If only I could watch the little video on Wikis from my work computer. Alas, it won't work here so I will make the time to watch it at home.

Granddaughters in matching sweaters

See why I would rather knit. Aren't they cute in their matching sweaters?

Peyton's sweater

I knit this sweater for my 3 year old granddaughter. Isn't it cute?!

Facebook and Twitter

Those of you on Facebook know who I am and we've had some fun with some of the features like SuperPoke etc.

As far as using Facebook for library work, I haven't figured that out yet. It's been nice getting to know some staff members a little better but I don't think I am going to keep up with it.

Now Twitter is another story. That has been amusing but also I can see it have a purpose in our work. Twitter has kept us in the loop with what it going on in some other branches and with other staff members. I heard about Oragerful's new job way before the announcement came out. Other branch staff helped me out with my teen book discussion.

A big feature, for me, of both Facebook and Twitter is that I can keep up with what is going on at work from home. Being a JS I get nosy about what's going on when I'm not at work. I guess that's my problem with all of this--I like to read it but I don't like to contribute to it.

Zoho

I tried again today and still can't get my Zoho document to transfer to my blog. I suspect that there is a simple explanation but I have no clue. I just don't see why I would ever write something in Zoho to trasfer to my blog instead of just writing it on the blog directly.

Web 2.0 Exploration 6 Online Office Tools

I was just getting ready to post before lunch that I didn't see the point in using Zoho for work when it won't send by email but now after lunch my emailed document has arrived to my supervisor. So I will amend my opinion in favor of using on line office tools to share documents.

One thing I observed in creating my document was that there didn't seem to be any indication of typos/misspelling errors like you get in a Word document. I wonder what's up with that. I'll go back later and try some editing tools.

I have tried to publish my document straight from Zoho to this blog and was not successful. I'll try again later.

In theory these tools should be useful in doing documents that can be created and edited by several people. I would want to see a faster delivery via email before I could give this a thumbs up.

Don't you know that I've not had a single patron ask for Excel or PowerPoint since I discovered that you can use these on-line tools. Maybe the public was already up on this technology before I was?!