Social networking

I have been using Facebook for a while now, & after going to an interstate school reunion last year, it was great to be able to add many old school mates as Friends so we can keep in touch. It's such an easy way to stay in contact with people who you would normally only hear from once a year via a 1 line Xmas card! I keep photos on Facebook too. I've just joined the IFLA 2010 Brisbane conference facebook group - very excited about the conference.
I've been hearing a lot about Twitter lately, so have just joined & added a Twitter widget to my blog. Will have to investigate it further, I've heard its useful for conferences.
I used Ning in the leadup to SLQ's web 2 Unconferences - useful as preparation.

Wikis

Wikis are a great way to collect information together. I have been wanting to create a wiki for cataloguing staff for a few years now, & it looks like at last, with a new intranet coming soon I just may be ale to create one. It will enable me to organize & link & bring together all the resources needed for cataloguing staff such as in-house work notes & procedures, online tools such as Webdewey, LCSH, Libraries Australia, World cat etc ; websites such as fantastic fiction etc.

Staff could also put up examples of particular catalogued items to assist with consistency and efficiency.
I have just added a thread (under the name penh) to the slq's wetpaint Library 2.0 wiki.

Flickr

It was useful reading about Commons & Creative commons - It makes what I can & can't do with images I find on the web a lot clearer.
Here is a photo from my flickr site taken on a holiday at Sunshine Beach. My flickr site is just shared with family friends & its where I put a selection of our family photos.

Playing with colours

Maybe there is a reason I'm not an interior decorator!! I may have to change it all back, I think this background looks a bit soupy.

My first post

When setting up this new blog using my google login, I remembered I already set up a private blog in Blogger in 2007. In my initial enthusiasm back then, I had a flurry of activity on it, shared it with friends and relatives, then let it lapse as life suddenly got too busy. My flickr site, also set up at around the same time, has had no photos added since 2007. The only social networking I keep up with is Facebook with my friends list gradually growing. Maybe when I retire ...

From a professional perspective, it would be great to replace the Library e-newsletter that I currently produce every month with a blog. A lot of the information I put in there is worth archiving & would then be retrievable with tags. It would also be great to have feedback in the form of comments from our clients. So a big push needed to get it off the ground.