Thursday, May 1, 2008

Wrap up; Social networkings and Catch up

Socially, it is great idea in catch up with what your friends or family members up to via the internet instead of phone call and emails. But I am not quite sure about it using in some area of the library, especially a social networking group for the youth - would they keep it up or is it going to flop after their interest is turning into something else?

A social networking will be good to set up for the friends of the library though, what they are doing, any events they planned, and they can interact with library staff and other members through this instead of email or phone call (if they don't know each other's phone number, then they will not be able to contact each other) or until the the meeting time.

A social networking setup for all libraries in NSW sound goods though, as they can marketing their coming events, activities and other libraries can promote them as they see fit without the original library have to sending an email and asking other libraries to promote them.

Online applications and tools

Google docs sounds useful. I wouldn't mind using it when working with other colleagues on procedures or collabrate on a project together. Instead of phone call, sending email, print out and editing, then sending each email at each changes. We can easily use this online application and edit the documents or information with comments on why the changes are made. Since it can be accessed anywhere with a computer that has an Internet access, the team can work on the documents without setting up meeting, or see each other. They can even work together on the same document when they are at different branch libraries.