Week 2 : Zamzar - converting file formats

This exercise featured http://zamzar.com/ which is a fantastically useful site that I wish I had known about already :)
It is a fairly simple site to use, and I think customers would also find it so (although I would still expect staff to help guide a first time user through how to use it).
We can definitely use this on both staff and learn.net pcs, as it doesn't require software to be downloaded...fantastic! I did have to convert two documents as the first didn't work, but I suspect it may have had difficulty with it as it was a mix of Word/excel rather than just a word.doc.
I would very much recommend this site to customers (and anticipate using it myself in the future), as there have been many a time I have wanted to convert something to PDF, and this was one very easy way to do it.
The only downside I could see with recommending it to customers is that it is not instant and they do have to wait for their file conversion....but I think the wait is worth being able to open a file you cannot!
Can't wait to play with this at home to test out the ability to convert PDF into word because that would be soooo handy!

Week 1 : Blogger

My web 2.0 expectations for round two - to explore more interesting 2.0 technologies and to have fun doing it! We are so lucky to get to do this as a part of our jobs, so I have no fears....let the playing and learning commence! How can libraries use blogs? As a tool to stay in touch with their community, particularly those online...staff could share favourite book reviews posted on the website - promote local events happening in both the library or their local community - the possibilities go on and on! blogs could also really useful for certain programmes - for example there could be a Summer Reading Programme blog to keep all the summer readers up with the play about how the programme was going, and what events were coming up.

We're back baby!

Back at work that is......after a one year break looking after the new little person in our household. And how saddened I was to find out that I had missed out on some most awesome Web 2.0 training in my absence (thats what you get for taking a year off I guess).
So feeling rather deprived...I wrote into my PDR for this year that I NEEDED to do this training and be up with the Web 2.0 play, so Eating kittens for breakfast lives once more...hurrah!!