Week 8 - Delicious

Very useful. Enables access to favourites from anywhere. Also, allows access to favourites of other people who may have similar interests.

I found the use of tags to be very simple. Although entering phrases as descriptors was difficult eg. health promotion. Checked in Help and found that a hyphen was necessary eg. health-promotion . Although others seem to have entered in differing ways eg. healthpromotion or health.promotion

I still prefer controlled vocab, but we're not all Librarians, I suppose.

Week 7: iGoogle

I'm publishing this from my iGoogle page, on which I have added a 'Blogger' gadget. Here, try this link:
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Week 6 - Google Book Search

Had a good look around here. This could be very useful for finding a chapter from a 'full-view' book. Often clients only need one chapter from a scientific/research text. Also useful for reviews. Plus, when we do not hold a particular text and it is required for personal/study use, we can direct clients to where they can purchase a title or to other Library holdings.

Google maps - Directions from home to work

Found directions from home to my work. Now I have no excuse not to turn up to work - I will never get lost!

Pubs in Brunswick

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Google Maps - My place of work

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This is a test of Google docs for Week 6 exercise. Seems to be working fine. Will publish this doc to my Blog.

Week 6 : Google Docs

I had an explore of Google docs and was impressed. I was able to email the document to myself as an attachment. Able to edit easily etc. This should come in very handy at home. I also published the document I was working on to my Blog. Just checking to see if it worked.