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When I was in High school I developed a new take on procrastination. Whenever I had an assignment in English to complete I used to take ages and think about it, feeling guilty all the while without getting any work done. My theory was that I was developing the idea in my brain until the very last hour.

This exercise in web 2.0 round 2 has taught me that I haven’t really learnt anything or changed much :). I decided to do all the exercises 1^st and then just blog about them all together (in separate posts of course). It’s not the doing that’s hard it’s the blogging (well for me anyway). On the bright side I got it done and not at the very last minute.

Awesome was

Tastespotting...thanks for forcing on us a delicious break although it did make me really hungry at work

The generally super clear instructions

The people who have read or are reading my rambling (even if you were forced to)

Difficult was

That the links didn’t open to a new webpage (or tab)....I ended up spending a lot of time clicking back (my brain doesn’t hold thoughts very well)

As mentioned previously I am easily distracted by pretty colours……hence I really enjoyed the navigation on Encompass Culture. I really like the compass with the floating titles and topics. Although the way the results were presented was a slight letdown after all that. I did however like that it gave age groups for children’s books as this is something i struggle with when recommending to children.

This is definitely a useful website for reader’s advisory and I probably would recommend it to customers. I would use this website again as part of work and to assist in customer enquiry. On a personal note I prefer the good reads website although the searching is not nearly as enjoyable. This might change with further exploration of the website.

Yay six weeks completed and now the only thing to contemplate is what image to use for my final post (and yes I do contemplate these things :)).....Are we having another round?

Slideshare is an interesting concept for a website. It was relatively easy to navigate. I was surprised at how many presentations there were relating to libraries and to Web 2.0. Here are a couple of presentations I found interesting (Be warned I am easily distracted by pretty colours)

Beautiful Libraries in the World
Next-Gen Libraries

Although it is useful I would probably only recommend it customers in response to a query. I do however think that I would recommend it to customers perhaps not as a slide sharing website but as a source example slideshow presentations

I probably won’t join or use this website to share presentations unless I was promoted to perhaps by someone who had already joined the website or wanted to share a presentation.

How many ways are there of saying delicious? I didn’t even mind registering for this website …....it was just so yum

I would definitely use this site again and will introduce my family and friends interested in cooking to it as well as a source of inspiration and recipes

We have learned a lot about websites directly related to work but it is nice and refreshing to deviate completely now and then.From a work prospective I would recommend Tastespotting to customers who like cook books

Everything was so delish looking it was hard to decide but just loved this image and description of recipe.

I love the tagline to Feed My Inbox “RSS made easy” and surprisingly enough it was. I was apprehensive at first and it did not help that unfortunately the tutorial video did not seem to want to play but it seemed doable or so I thought and I went for it. The website is actually quite easy to use and understand.

I was being blonde all around so I also didn’t read the instructions well and tried to add all the library blogs suggested instead of just 1. Of course being on the free account it inactivated the sixth blog that I added. Which brings me to my main point only 5 feeds being free makes me reluctant to return to the website. It seems quite restrictive and I (not a fan of RSS at the best of times) just can’t be bothered. Also not to whinge too much but It doesn’t even send an email to confirm that the feeds will start (that might be just me)

I think I would only recommend this site to customers who had this specific query (none so far but you never know). It does have the plus of being easier to explain

I enjoyed Picapp but probably for the wrong reason entirely. It was fun to type in words and look at different associated images. For example typing Cat got me lots of images of a CAT scan and not so many cats. I do like that the website offers options of searching editorial or creative pictures

I have to admit it is a good website for searching for people. Personally I am not currently at the stage where I worry about picture copyright for my blog (should I be worried???) so Google images is much easier and more rewarding at moment. Though in saying that it is a good source when trying to find celebrities and I would use it if I needed non copyrighted images. I would also recommend it to customers looking for non copyrighted images.

For my image of choice I decided to Creative search for dragons. I really liked this particular one sitting and guarding the building (I need to get me one of these :) )

I had a relatively good experience with Box.net. The sign up was quick and easy except that they wanted phone contact details. Did anyone else find that strange??? For some reason I find it okay to give out my email address at random but pause to give out my phone details over the internet (probably just another paranoia of mine). Uploading was also quick and easy for me….though I think that was just pure luck listening to some of the stories.

The only other major detail for Box.net was the amount of storage up on offer. I am anticipating that 1 Gigabyte of storage might run out a bit too soon. I probably won’t use the site again due to the storage issue. I currently recommend Google Docs to patrons but it is good to have options

Yeah I do realise this is a weird post but it seemed strange to start without mentioning that it’s the start of another round....Am I right :)