Web 2.0 Awards

I decided to take a break from book and library related stuff and chose Teamsnap as my tool to investigate. As my alternative career path is leading me to Sports management!!! I found this site awesome. It is only free at the moment but very easy to set up and follow. When my new career takes off I will definitely make use of this tool. Absolutely daunting the quantity of tools available. Didn't even have a chance to skim a 10th. Oh! not to have another life so I could take in all of this!

Zoho

I have just spent many hours creating documents on my new Zoho account. It was very easy to set up and use. Some neat features, but as I am a complete novice with any word processing programmes I'm sure I didn't come close to discovering them all. Managed to insert and modify pictures and shared a document for read and write edit - very impressed with myself. Despite many attempts I was unable to publish my doc to my blog - very frustrated!!
Like so many of the tools on Web 2.0 , this one has many potential applications and benefits.

Rollyo

http://rollyo.com/editroll.html?sid=467644
Couldn't quite get my head around this one. Not particularly easy to use (or is that just me!) and didn't really have a subject I need a search engine for. I can see the benefit of this site, especially for library reference queries with specific parameters ie. school projects - year and subject specific that are repeated regularly. Not sure if I would use it much - favourites work well for me!

Generation ???!!! Images

Played around for ages with the given resources but got seriously frustrated. I was really excited about this exercise but battled to get into it - probably expecting too much and wanting things on a platter. I did try to upload some of my own photos on a few of the sites , registered , set up accounts etc but still did not get desired results. Did manage to do some celeb mixups with my own family and played with mixup names etc but not overly impressed with results. Could not find a link to Imagechef (used by many of our bloggers)on any of the given resources but got here the easy way and will definitely play around some more with this site. My son now wants me to order his shirt as long as Liverpool logo is on front.

Library thing

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/saboomfa

Enjoyed browsing around Library Thing. Certainly useful for organising your personal reading history and preparing booklists etc. Very easy to use and I will definitely keep my account open and operating.

Sandbox

Played in the Sandbox and added my b;og to "Favourites". Bit disappointed with the entries in the other favourites. At this late stage I expected long, inspiring lists but alas....perhaps they've all been edited out.

Technorati

Very hard to even comprehend the enormity of the blogosphere! One can only admire the people dedicated to organising everyone else's thoughts. Not sure I would use this much but good to know it is out there and perhaps one day I might have things I'd like to share with the world at large - it might also stop raining in Auckland!