Task # 17

I liked the 100 Best Blogs for Librarians best of the 4 different sites that I looked at because of the way that it was organized. I like that it categorized all the blogs and then gave a little synopsis of what is in the site so then you can narrow the options down to a few that look good. Then your not wasting your time trying to find what your looking for. Of the 4 that I looked at I liked Web Junction the least because it was so packed full of stuff that it makes it hard to look at without zoning out. Sometimes with sites like that I have too many things to look at and don't know where to start. I liked the site about Library Job postings and it honestly is the only one that I can see using in the future if I were going to move. I think that it's cool that you can narrow your search by state. I did see that they had blogs, on the 100 best blogs site, that offered Green library info and I might check that out in the future too.

Task # 16

Openoffice seems like it would be good for projects and such for school or letters or reports. I really like to use Word Art and Clip Art a lot and I don't see options for this in the openoffice program. It could just be that I need to become more acclimated with the software. It seems to have a lot of different fonts to use which is another feature that I use often.

When I first started using Word 2007 I didn't like it because I wasn't used to it but now that I am I really like the way it's set up with the changing tool bars and all so I would say that I would waste the money on getting word 2007 because this is available for use.

I am writing this on openoffice and I like that it does an auto spell check because my spelling is atrocious.

As far as open source goes I think that it's a good idea because there is the opportunity to have so many different perspectives. I do get a little concerned because it seems that when you have open source programing there is the opportunity for someone to provide false, inaccurate, or bad information.

I have been throwing around the idea of going back to school and I come to the conclusion that I will go back and I can completely see using this resource when I do.

I am having trouble copy and pasting from openoffice to my blog. It's doing it but it gave me hassles. Just something to consider.

Task # 15

I think that clip marks is a cool idea but I guess I don't see how it's any better than book marking a page that you want to come back to. I just tried to use it with the CAL conference because I thought that I could clip the schedule but since it's an excel document I was unable to. I just posted a clipmark to my facebook just to give it a try so I googled green libraries and posted a paragraph about a library in Ohio to my facebook. I will play around with this and see what else they have to offer but I don't think this is something that I will use often because if there is a site that I want to read I will just bookmark it until I can get to it. I was curious how people got those things on Facebook and I am guessing it's because of something like this.

Task # 14

I have done the training for Netlibrary and Over drive and yet I still have the most problems with them. I tried to download "One for the Money" to my work computer after waiting quite a while for it to download I got a message that said that "We could not issue a license because my security settings prevented and ActiveX..." So I tried to do this task but I came up short. I thought that it was easy enough to search and find what I was looking for and it was easy enough to download it but I had troubles when it came to listening to it.
I also was on Over drive and I was able to put a book on hold so hey that's something. It seems like they don't have a great selection because I tried to put "One for the Money" on hold but they didn't have it. I also tried to do "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and they didn't have that either. So Net Library seemed like there were more options but it wouldn't work for me and Over drive was easier to use but less selections so I guess there is good and bad with everything.
I really want to be good at doing this because this is something that patrons have asked for and I would love to be able to just rattle off answers. So I am going to keep working on this.

Task # 13

I am so irritated right now! I am on soundsnap.com and I have created 2 free accounts and on both of them it's not recognizing the username and password that I created. The first time I did it I thought maybe I made a mistake and so I created another account with my personal e-mail account and then tried to get in and it said that I didn't have the correct username or password. That's bogus! So I am done trying.
I think that these sounds would be cool (if you can access them) on the kids web site and have different sounds for the different things that people are doing. So for example if a kid is on the site and not doing anything perhaps the cricket sound could come on or if too many buttons were used at one time the gazoinks sound from scooby doo would be cool. Things like this to make the site a little more interactive would be neat.
I tried Droga Dluga Jest on Last FM and even though they aren't my style I still like how there was a music video playing at the same time. It's like your own personal MTV only without all that crappy programming.
I like the way that jamendo is set up for browsing but I like that Last FM has a video for you to watch while you listen.
I will definitely offer up the free music downloads to those folks who always order lots of music but I can't see a way to market the soundsnap to folks especially as I can't figure out how to use it myself.
Okay, wonders never cease. I figured out sound snap and I successfully downloaded the night crickets. Yay. I still didn't love my experience.