Technorati - Thing 14

Blog Information Profile for SnookyJane

Shallow Thoughts by Sherrie has been claimed on Technorati and it ranks 4,758,329. Woo-hoo!

If I ever have anything deep to say the blog will be the place.

It's taken me a bit to get used to adding the tags/labels at the bottom of the posts, but it's really easy to do with Blogger. Technorati is pretty easy to navigate and it uses your Google ID. Like a lot of other sites it allows you to add a profile, a photo of yourself and a biography. If you're blogging aboug quantum physics you might want to include your PhD in subject. ;)

I searched the blog posts for "Learning 2.0" and got 397 returns. That's not too bad considering a Google search would have resulted in thousands. When I searched the tags I got 174 items ... better still. The directory has a Web 2.0 folder under Technology but you have to slog through too many blogs for this to be that useful.

Google Docs - Thing 18

As a library committee member who was responsible for preparing a proposal, I can relate to the fictional Sam in the intro video. I would mail out a draft and my fellow committee members would make changes, additions, suggestions, etc. I would get back four or five revisions over a period of a few days and I had to correlate all those revisions. Google Docs would have made the process much simpler.

This is something I will keep in mind for future use.

As one of the now legions who attended library school online WebCT served a similar purpose for the composition of group projects. It is nice to see something that will serve the non-academic community.

This will also be a great tool to share with patrons who need to type up a resume and "store" it online. If you copy and paste into an email account you can lose formatting and if you save as an attachment you have to have the supporting software on the next computer.

As a matter of fact I wrote this post as a sample Google Doc and copied it over to my blog.