Good News

So the green light has been given for the Beijing Olympics Blog, now the real work begins! We now number three; draft posts are in the works; we'll be going live and showing our team mates very soon. The possibility of a link on the library web page has been mentioned, so if it's up to scratch we'll be out their for all to see!


The video blog I couldn't find was on the BBC- it's a program called Click and presented by Kate Russell who gives tips on new web applications and they publish a video each Friday to the net. It's worth a look.

I thought I'd have a look at the Library and Information Technology Association website- don't ask me why, or what came over me to do such a thing, but I did and I headed straight to their Blog link where I read this story. The post was about "Top Technology Trends for the American Library Association Annual Meeting"

What caught my attention and what I could relate to was the following points:

Visually appealing websites- wow what a novel idea! Costly I'm sure but too important to ignore.

Mobile phones/iPhones - Telephone enquiries being taken and answered with text messages? Yes. Requesting a book by mobile phone or sms on the way to the library to save waiting for a book? Yes. A mobile phone browser friendly website.

Social Networking - Using these tools to connect our clients and our unique content is just waiting to happen.

OK, that's all for now.

Busy busy busy

It's been a bit busy in the Reading Room lately so time has been in limited supply, however......

I was walking around stack looking to see if a new copy of Macworld had arrived when I found a copy of Library Journal (v.good site) on the Journal put shelves. The copy I found was from November 2007 but it had a headline that said "Why we Blog" that caught my interest. So i thought i'd check it out and I thought it was great- really positive and encouraging and something I felt compelled to show others. So click here and have a read and be enthused like I was.

This is too weird- i'm checking out library science journals!!

I was checking out a BBC Blog about mobile video (further to a post i wrote about journos using their mobile phone to file video news events) and the writer linked to another Blogger who is big in the techie/blogosphere.

The guy is Robert Scoble who has worked for Microsoft, written a book (no we don't hold it but this is the results from a Libraries Australia search) about blogs for business and more. So i've signed up for RSS feeds from his blog and read a post where he mentioned Mahalo (which is thank you in Hawaiian) - so i then check out what that's all about.

Mahalo claims to be a "human powered search engine" with results only to great links. They have a browser extension whereby you can have Google and Mahalo results side-by-side for your comparison- hmmm, tempted. It will be interesting to see if this search engine will catch on. If nothing else they promise less spam.

See how easy it is to go off on tangents?

The whole time i was looking for a video blog that i saw the other day but can't remember where i saw it.

The Beijing Olympics Blog project has been going along slowly, I think we will reach a crossroads shortly- it's hard to say which way it will go.

I haven't made a podcast/audio instructions on how to request a book yet but it's on my mind.

And to finish off with a visual, here's a clip about the announcement of the 3G iPhone, ya know, in case you didn't hear about it.