#13 Playtime with Online Image Generators

What It’s All About Now that you’ve learned about photos and images, let’s see some of the fun things that you can do with them. Online Image Generators are tools that let you play with both images and your photos. You can add frames, captions, and text to an uploaded photo. You can create funny [...]

#12 OverDrive downloads and a plea from yours truly

What’s It All About? Now that you’ve had a chance to use sites like YouTube, Pandora, and Hulu to stream digital media, it’s time to talk about downloadable media. Since 2005, Sno-Isle has been providing downloadable media through a partnership with OverDrive. Patrons can choose from a wide range of audio books — popular fiction, [...]

14 Days To Have Your Say

Our friends to the north at Western Washington University Libraries are inviting users to share their opinions, dreams, and complaints about the library. Watching this video just makes me smile.

#11 Tag, You’re it! Social Bookmarking in Del.icio.us

What’s It All About? This week’s thing is Del.icio.us a social bookmarking site that uses tags to manage bookmarks. As we already know from Flickr, tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to associate keywords with online content (webpages, posts, & in the case of flickr photographs). This open and [...]

Instant messaging = instant service

This is the kind of innovation that just blows me away. I love the idea of helping people immediately. Topeka Shawnee Public Library added a meebo me widget to their catalog late last year. When a patron has an unsuccessful keyword search the meebo me widget pops up giving customers an opportunity to ask for [...]

#10 Wiki Wiki Fun!

What’s It All About? A wiki is software that allows users to freely create, edit, and link web pages easily using any browser. It is the most simple form of database. Wikis usually have a simple text syntax for creating new pages and do not require the user to understand html code. Wikis are often [...]