Am I familiar with iGoogle? Ask any of the staff here that go to do a good search on one of my logins. It is the first page I go to everyday and is my homepage at home. I'd love to show you a screen shot but don't seem to have the option, sorry fellas.
Was i-Google easy to customise?
iGoogle is very easy to customise, much more than many sites. Each widget came be moved by dragging the mouse around the page, expanded out to full screen, mini screen or minimised so just it's title is showing. For example, my google reader takes up a big chunk of space at the bottom of the page expanded to see the first few entries. In contrast my email minimised at the top right my screen so my emails are not out for all the world to see. I have very few widgets as I found if I can't see them I don't tend to use them but one I have kept are Googledocs, Translator and Dictionary....and my hamster pet...every library should have a pet.
Do you find it helpful?
I like that everything I want to check throughout the day is in out place. I've just added a Twitter link as well so I have no excuse for not Twittering. I wonder how long that will last. I've also added Facebook, but as I can view that at work I've just minised it to a title to remind to check it.
Did you try any of the other tools as well? How did you find them?
I must admit I looked at them but just found them too messy, fussy and too much trouble. My igoogle has it all: one of the most popular search engines out there, calendar, googledocs, googlereader, access to googlemaps and images search and if I choose to not to use gmail I can always add a widget for Hotmail or Yahoo mail. I'm not sure why I'd go somewhere else.
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networks. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Friday, December 4, 2009
Ning a ding-ding
Recently I was asked to participate in a workshop for the redesign on the Council Intranet, specifically the access to information about different departments and individuals. If I had seen a Ning previously I would have just suggested forming one for the Council.
I like that each person has their own page for a photo and contact information... maybe a link for photos or other important sites. I like that they can be affiliated with groups or departments within the network so others can search for you either by your name or department. In council I know we wanted an interactive business structure that can show the relationship between departments Clicking on them would bring up the department page and links to staff in that department. I could see Nings being very suitable for thall these applications.
Outside of work I suggested to a co-worker that setting up a Ning network for her large family. Everyone, even the youngest can have a page and add blogs, comments, events, send birthday greetings...etc. An awesome application.
Still waiting for the Administrator for Library 2.0 to approve my application, but I'll add a link here as soon as it is.
I like that each person has their own page for a photo and contact information... maybe a link for photos or other important sites. I like that they can be affiliated with groups or departments within the network so others can search for you either by your name or department. In council I know we wanted an interactive business structure that can show the relationship between departments Clicking on them would bring up the department page and links to staff in that department. I could see Nings being very suitable for thall these applications.
Outside of work I suggested to a co-worker that setting up a Ning network for her large family. Everyone, even the youngest can have a page and add blogs, comments, events, send birthday greetings...etc. An awesome application.
Still waiting for the Administrator for Library 2.0 to approve my application, but I'll add a link here as soon as it is.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Hmmm...that's del.icio.us!
Last year I was impressed with Delicious. I thought it was a great place to pool all our collected websites and more importantly sort them by topics via tags so they become searchable. Very nice.
But what about now?
The Twitter connection is a great idea, particularly within a workplace. It would be easy in inform staff of a new site if they were all connected to the libraries Twitter site. I notice that though the link says its delicious it actually takes you to the bookmarks site. Very clean and very simple.
For customers, I'm not so sure I how this would be much different from just adding the link to your Twitter site.
I can't say I use any feature beyond bookmarking in Delicious. As everything is tagged when added I find it simple to search and have no problem finding my old links. As mentioned above the new Twitter option is cute and for me give more value to Twitter in the workplace.
As for recommendations, I always like clicking on the numbers to the right of each link showing how many times that site as been bookmarked. It's interested to see what other people tag sites, it can help give inspiration to reference equiries when the site you have is sort of what you want, but not quite there.
But what about now?
The Twitter connection is a great idea, particularly within a workplace. It would be easy in inform staff of a new site if they were all connected to the libraries Twitter site. I notice that though the link says its delicious it actually takes you to the bookmarks site. Very clean and very simple.
For customers, I'm not so sure I how this would be much different from just adding the link to your Twitter site.
I can't say I use any feature beyond bookmarking in Delicious. As everything is tagged when added I find it simple to search and have no problem finding my old links. As mentioned above the new Twitter option is cute and for me give more value to Twitter in the workplace.
As for recommendations, I always like clicking on the numbers to the right of each link showing how many times that site as been bookmarked. It's interested to see what other people tag sites, it can help give inspiration to reference equiries when the site you have is sort of what you want, but not quite there.
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