YourMinis

Personally I love widgets - I even love the name, widget, sounds like Gidget, but enough rambling on and about. As Jennifer says, on Learning 2.1,essentially, a widget is a small, interactive program that allows quick access to often-used tools or information. (or check Google) Most – though far from all – widgets are connected to the Internet. Some are very practical; some are just for fun. I have put widgets on ACLS's teen myspace page but I love to find more.

On myminis I clicked Startpage to try some out w/o creating an account. I grabbed a template of "news" to try out, followed by grabbing more minis, which is so darn easy,and dragged them over to my page.Fun, I changed the colors on the clock and in fact I had widgets coming out my ears!

I'm not sure about adding some to the library's website. People like to personalize their own pages and I hate to see our homepage get too cluttered. Perhaps adding the Flickr widget to our site would be helpful, (only if we could set it somehow to our pics)but for now we already have the free account and a new webpage is set up to house video and more.

Plaxo

Plaxo looks pretty cool. I signed up, imported some contacts from AOL, set up a calendar with Sierra's 16th BD event. I even added the countdown - I like how you can see the big pic or set it on upcoming events, month, week, or day. Adding a task was fun, as I like to check them off - ordering Sierra's cake, grocery shopping, etc. Couldn't figure out how to layer the calendars tho, for work and home.....added a link to our Teen Myspace site and my Flickr site. Connection requests are pending to John, Krista, and Jenn.

Learning 2.1 and LetterPop

Just started Learning 2.1. The first "new thing" is a lot of fun to work with. I created a newsletter in LetterPop and imported family pics. Very easy to work with - not a lot of frills for the free version - I guess unless you would upgrade. It was extremely easy to import pics and what's cool is you can import from your Flickr site too. What impressed me was the huge amount of templates to work with - I hit the Motherlode of templates!!!!

Wonder Why to use a Wiki??

Cool, came across this on my LATI journey..Why use a Wiki?