Thing 17: Books 2.0

Question: Insight learned from resources in each categories on "Thing 17."

Answer (1) The Online Book Page: It is a website that facilitate access to free books readable over the internet. The Online Book Page is founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, a digital library planner of the University of Pennsylvania and the site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania libraries. It has over 900,000 works in various format, it is a collaborative work and books listed must meet certain criteria. All books are free for personal and noncommercial use. You can browse by author, title, subject and ISBN.

• Free eBooks by Project Gutenberg: It has over 33,000 ebooks you can read via your PC, Kindle, iPad or via other readers. No fee is required for registration but you may be required to donate a small amount of money if you find Project Gutenberg useful so that more books can be digitalized. In the United States, Project Gutenberg books are free of charge and free of freedom because the copyright has expired but in other countries, users must check the copyright law before downloading and distributing.
• Open Culture: This is a free high quality cultural and educational media put together in one place to be retrieved easily. Dan Coleman of Standford University is the lead editor but the site is not formally associated with Standford University.

Answer (2) I have Worldcat on my Facebook page. On Worldcat Facebook, I clicked on "Go to app", I signed in with my facebook details and gave a permission. It was then loaded on my facebook page. It is very useful to me because it a network of libraries and library contents.

Thing 16: Online Book Catalogs

My Library Thing Personal Account has 5 books for now.
To view, please see http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ElizabethAkinbulumo

Thing 14: Online Videos

Question: What makes a "viral video" go viral?

Answer: A viral video is that video that is electronically passes on from one person to the other regardless of its content.

What makes an online video go viral may be:

1. What the video is communicating that is, its content
2. Availability and affordability of site designated for sharing videos
3. Just for sharing sake.

Thing 13: CO.NX Webchats

I have participated in several CO.NX Webchats. One outstanding chat was that on "Adapting to Climate Change" of March 17, 2010. It was educating and frightening, learning from Dr. Marcia K. McNutt as she discusses worldwide efforts on how to monitor climate change and prepare for the change. The problem we had was that of bandwidth, only 3 guests were able to use the IRC DIN computers at a time, and only a few can type in the question fast.

Thing 10: Introduction to SharePoint

As I explore the "23 Things" everyday, I discover that learning is a great treasure. My experience of SharePoint is that it is a great platform for group communication and sharing ideas.

Thing 11: Photo Sharing

A link from my blog has been attached to my Flickr account.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizakinbulumo

Thing 8: Collaboration Using Wikis

On the DOS Diplopedia under Outreach, Inreach and Programming, I add information on IRC Nigeria. Please see link
http://diplopedia.state.gov/index.php?title=ABCs_for_IRCs&action=edit&section=33

Thing 9: Document Sharing in the Cloud

Question 1: How might you use Google Docs as an alternative to the standard document creation tools on Microsoft Office?
Answer: Once you have the email address(s) of everyone you are working with, you can access or share your documents from anywhere or any computer.

Question 2: What drawbacks did you notice in Google Docs, if any?
Answer: You must write the correct email address at all times to be able to get a document to the correct individual. The Microsoft Office gives you the correct email address once you send a document ones.

Question 3. Describe your experience of collaborating on a single document with multiple users.
Answer: If you do not get one email address correctly you will not be able to send document to others.

Thing 7: Finding RSS Feeds

Question 1a. Add 5 resources that have RSS Feeds to your reader. Indicate on your blog which resources selected.
Answer: (i) Connect with Government: USA.gov
(ii) Nigeria News - Breaking World Nigerian News - The New York Times
(iii) Nigeria: Pictures, Videos, Breaking News (Huffingtonpost.com)
(iv) Welcome to AIDS.gov
(v) FIFA.com - Nigeria on FIFA.com
Qusetion 1b. How did you find the feeds?
Answer: Go to your google account
Go to google reader
click on browse for stuff
Search for feed using keywords
subscribe articles of interest
Question 1c. Did you go to New York Times RSS page or find site you liked?
Answer: I went to New York Times RSS page as well as others.

Question 2: Describe how RSS may help you in your job and life.
Answer: Put all my resources in one place
RSS does the work for me
Saves time
Provide sources timely

Thing 6: RSS

Question 1. Which feed did you add to your reader?

• Reuters Africa
• Wash Post Africa
• BBC News Africa

Question 2. What do you like about RSS and Newreaders?

• For my Mission In reach Service, it puts all the International News Media that I track in one place.
• It updates me on every news I track.
• It saves me time rather than go from one web site to the other.

Question 3. How can you use RSS to take advantage of this technology?

• By subscribing to what I'm interested in.

Thing 4: Microblogging Using Twitter

1. My Twitter account is http://www.twitter.com/Nwaomiko

2. I searched http://search.twitter.com for any tweet on "Nigerian Librarianship" and found none. I searched "Nigerian Politics" I found 8 reports.

Thing 3: Social Bookmarking and Tagging

1. Ipl2: Information You Can Trust (Liz Delicious Bookmark)
http://www.ipl.org/

My Delicious link account is http://http://delicious.com/eakinbulumo

Thing 2: Searching for Blogs

1. Title of Article I commented on is "Library Book Club" under IRC Program on April 8, 2010 at 01:23 p.m.





2. a. A nijawife


http://babajidesalu.wordpress.com/
Diary of a Nigerian Returnee.....


Women in Africa are made to understand that they are incomplete without marriage and kids but whether they are happy or not,the society does not care but to continue to smile and suffer.



b. Jide Salu's Diary


http://babajidesalu.wordpress.com/
Diary of a Nigerian Returnee.....





c. Nigerian Football Fans


http://www.naijafootballfans.blogspot.com/
Nigerian football fans forum blog.Where all the developments at the forum are analysed. Football fans from Nigeria can meet here for information on latest happenings in the world of sports across the world.