SlideShare

SlideShare is easy to set up an account and search for slides of your interest. I found a good one on "Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond." (posted below) I grabbed an embed file and popped into a new post. Tada. Very easy, just as easy to add to Twitter. I like how you can view most downloaded, most embedded, most viewed, etc. Great way to share slideshows with co-workers and possibly on our new ACLS production page.

SlideShare

Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: semantic 3.0)

Twitter

Twitter is a online service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Sounds like some people are addicted to it! Whoo hoo, even the White House uses Twitter! Now, personally, I can not see me using this - there is never enough time in the day and you know what I mean. I think it is very popular with young people. As for using it in the library, I like how ALSC is micro-blogging about happenings in their library.

I had an account with Twitter, back when we were working on Library 2.0 - hmmmm, now to remember the password. Well, two hours later, I've created a new account, very easy. I like when you find someone to follow, such as YALSA, a little Follow button can be clicked - and tada - there you are. I actually found great teen ideas to use by looking at the YALSA twitter entries.

With Jaiku, you must be sent a personal invitation, so I did not follow up.

LitLovers

Oooh, I like this site. LitLovers claims: We are an online community dedicated to books and book clubs—because both enrich our lives. We've got great resources to enhance your book club experience. Whether you're selecting books, or thinking & talking about them, LitLovers is the place to come.

Unfortunately, under LitClub there wasn't any discussion on "The Shack" (it's brand new tho)so I checked out "The Kite Runner." Lots of good reviews and discussion questions. LitCourse was pretty cool - they're courses to deepen your understanding—and enjoyment—of fiction. For the LitCourse, I chose Literature Matters. When I read, "We need literature— because we can never live enough to investigate all of life on our own" I thought to myself - that is the truth. There is even a quiz at the end for fun to see what you've learned. LitLovers claim that each 30-minute LitCourse is comparable to a freshman level college class—but no grades, no tests, no papers. LitBlog is a great place to blog & comment. LitFun includes LitKids, LitFood, and LitFlicks. LitFlicks covers books adapted to film. I actually printed out book discussion for Teens, with having Teen Read Week already upon us.

Great site, I bookmarked it and will add to my Del.icio.us as well.

Jott

Jott.com’s voice-to-text services allow you to capture thoughts, create to-dos, set reminders, and send emails & text messages - all with a simple phone ...

Our web filtering at work, unfortunately, blocked us from trying Jott. I will try to look into it from home because it does sound interesting. I'm not sure how much I would personally use it - pen & paper sounds easier for simple lists. Blogger already has an option to call & send a message to your blog. But the more I think of it, I can use it while stuck in traffic, (not too often in Allegany Co. unless a bridge is being worked on) at my kid's soccer games, or waiting forever in a doctor's office.

I was able to walk through the simple steps of setting up an account from home. I left several messages that showed up in my Verizon email. The text was a little garbled, I suppose, from speaking too fast into the phone. The only problem I came across was when I was trying to call in a Blogger post. Apparently, I hadn't given the right ID of my Blogger account in the beginning when I set it up. Jott did send a message in my email informing me of the problem.

Perhaps I'm not looking outside the box, but I don't think we could use this with our patrons. If they add an email to their library account they will already receive a message that their books are due. For personal use, it will come in handy.