Relax/Reflect

It was a great learning adventure. I especially liked Pandora, Avatars and of course, blogging. I now know how to help our customers with their questions more effectively. I have always been a "I can figure this out" kind of person but now I feel I have the knowledge to assist more efficiently.

I had trouble keeping up with the lessons. I wonder if 2 lessons per month might be a better pace based on the level of activity in each of our buildings as well as other committee commitments.

Other than that, I thought the SIL 20 for 2.0 team did a fabulous job!

Gaming

It was harder than I thought. I could get hooked....

Geomapping and Google Earth

Google earth was amazing even if they had my address in the wrong place. I was able to peruse my neighborhood. It must have been garbage day because my cans were out. It reminded me that I live in a wonderful place!

Avatars

Here is my Avatar. I wish I had more options like ability to streak my hair and have it be a little longer, etc., but all in all I look pretty library-like!

Online Apps

Google docs was pretty cool - easy way to share files with coworkers. ZoHo didn't support Excel 2007 .xls which was weird.

Podcasting

I wasn't successful downloading a podcast. I'll have to try again tomorrow.

Search Engines

I still like Google the best. Mama is clean and efficient, Rollyo is a messy and complicated screen. Several of the links I clicked on froze.

Online Image Generators

That was great fun! I can see lots of uses for that little tool - mostly just fun stuff!

OverDrive

I have used OverDrive extensively since it came to SIL. I remember thinking that the initial downloading steps were confusing and cumbersome. I think this was true for our patrons also since I received many calls from patrons at home trying to download a book. Now that I have it installed on my computer I find it easy to use and very helpful for non-fiction especially. I don't find many old titles of my favorite mindless mystery writers, just the new stuff. It is a great service that I am happy SIL provides to our customers.

del.icio.us

I can see this will be a really useful tool especially with reference help. How many times have we type the same URL over and over and how many times have we found a great website and can't remember what it was?

Wikis

Seems like a convenient way to organize information with convenient links to other online information.

I got a lot of good book suggestions from PPL's Bookloverswiki. I wish they had continued it.

YouTube, Hulu & Fancast

I enjoyed watching the SIL video and the interview with Jeanne Crisp. Hulu seemed to be mostly interviews or clips while on Fancast you could view a full episode.

MySpace

I found MySpace kind of frightening.

Pandora is cool!

Where have I been? Pandora is way cool! Here is my radio stations.

http://feeds.pandora.com/styles/feeds/songs-art-gray.css

Flickr

Here is my Flickr photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28823521@N03/tags/sil20for20/
I thought this process was a snap and will use it to share family photos in the future.