Delicious in a sole-person library

I can see the potential for Delicious, the social network website organiser, for my work in the library. I could use Delicious to organise websites and make them searchable with tags. Most of my work involves searching on the internet for information. I work in a sole-person library, supporting 60 or so professional staff who have interests unrelated to the acquisition of information. My bookmarks would be of interest to nobody but me. At this stage, I can't see my bookmarks being useful to others at my workplace. That is, the social networking function of Delicious would be little use to me.

I used what I learnt about embedding Youtube videos and applied it to a Powerpoint presentation that I gave to staff. It was frustrating. The video didn't embed. Apparently you need to convert the video to movie format in order to show it in a Powerpoint presentation. Lucky I was prepared on the day, and had an internet connection through the labtop. I simply connected to a browser and showed the audience the YouTube video that way. It worked, but wasn't as seemless. This is the video that I tried to embed. The audience responded well when they viewed it. The comic theme of the video is how not to serve library users.

Embeding videos

I have been preparing a presentation for work. The staff in another section of our organisation have asked me to talk about my work. I'm pleased to be able to share this information with them and saw it as an opportunity to imporve our understanding of each other. I chose a YouTube video (not the video below)to include in the PowerPoint presentation to add a touch of humour at the finish of my talk.

The Web 2.0 lession has been a timely review of the process of embeding videos.

RSS would be useful at work to keep me abreast of changes on the political and policy front. I could include these happens in the webpage newletter I produce in the library.

Photo sharing

My family travelled to Japan during New Year 2007-8. Osaka was our favourite place because the food was home cooked and the people a little less slick than in Tokyo. We watched penguins on parade at Osaka Aquarium. Emperor penguins were very popular at the time because of the new movie "Happy Feet".

Creative Commons Flickr photos

The photos in Flickr are very broad-ranging and can be used in online publications. At work I have used the photos reserved in the Creative Commons section because these overcome many copyright problems.