Wednesday, June 23, 2010
I'm Back
Soon I will be publiching photos and details of my gear, FX-guitar rig wise, bands etc. Stay tuned!!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Outro; Social Networking - Week 12.
Well I'm in overdrive now, and I love it! I've certainly got a heck of a lot out of this amazingly put together course. Just how you put it all together for us makes my mind spin. There are now resources on the net net that I have never used before, a few i have never even heard of before, that i know have the confidence of utilising from hereon in, not only at work, but for my 'other life' as well, so thanks heaps for this opportunity.
Chorus- This article from the museum is quite thought-provoking. While written using some organisational jargon the framework from Forrester is helpful in working out ways that libraries can use social networks to both promote themselves (marketing) and support their clientèle using such social media applications as blogs, communities, Facebook and MySpace (social networking sites), embedded widgits and Wikis to name the obvious.
This reminds me of how I first became a user of 'Myspace', long before I weakened from my higher than thou stance that MySpace was just a site for showoff musicians that needed attention. It was when I was shopping around online for a place in Australia that sold and soldered together BYOC (Build Your Own Clone) guitar effects pedal kits, and I found a link to their Myspace page, but I had to join myspace in order to view it correctly or order from it or the like, so I did! So even though it was not a community organisation like a library, this commercial company made me always think of this type of social networking site as a very effective way of gaining new customers. I did buy the pedal and it can be seen in my "big huge labs" photo at the top, it's the spray-painted purple one.
I have since had lots of experience with Myspace and I do have my own page: http://www.myspace.com/fxstocker
Reverb- Like the American Library Assoc. Myspace page, I have had discussions in staff meetings and casually over the past year about our local council library creating its own MySpace page, and then like our Council's website, it could be advertised as a place to go to find out all about our services and events. Having 'friends' link themselves to our page would be an obvious and effective way of social networking.
Chorus- This article from the museum is quite thought-provoking. While written using some organisational jargon the framework from Forrester is helpful in working out ways that libraries can use social networks to both promote themselves (marketing) and support their clientèle using such social media applications as blogs, communities, Facebook and MySpace (social networking sites), embedded widgits and Wikis to name the obvious.
This reminds me of how I first became a user of 'Myspace', long before I weakened from my higher than thou stance that MySpace was just a site for showoff musicians that needed attention. It was when I was shopping around online for a place in Australia that sold and soldered together BYOC (Build Your Own Clone) guitar effects pedal kits, and I found a link to their Myspace page, but I had to join myspace in order to view it correctly or order from it or the like, so I did! So even though it was not a community organisation like a library, this commercial company made me always think of this type of social networking site as a very effective way of gaining new customers. I did buy the pedal and it can be seen in my "big huge labs" photo at the top, it's the spray-painted purple one.
I have since had lots of experience with Myspace and I do have my own page: http://www.myspace.com/fxstocker
Reverb- Like the American Library Assoc. Myspace page, I have had discussions in staff meetings and casually over the past year about our local council library creating its own MySpace page, and then like our Council's website, it could be advertised as a place to go to find out all about our services and events. Having 'friends' link themselves to our page would be an obvious and effective way of social networking.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Online Applications - Week 11
Chorus - Well, I have posted as a contributor on Google Docs to nswpln an example of a roster that others in my team, (in this case my church team) can add to. And that is the great advantage that Google Docs has, even over Wikis in my opinion, even though the idea is similar. As the video so well illustrates, and sells me on completely, instead of doing it 'the old way' -(sending everyone the roster as an attachment via email, then getting availability or changes back, then having to then resend the updated version, or ring those affected, and of course there is always the chance someone is going to refer to the wrong roster); we could now have the one document placed by me, the coordinator, and all others invited add their preferred 'shifts', which I can view at any time and tweak until the final version is there. And even then any changes can be swapped during the roster period rather than ring everyone, all participants just need to check before the weekend.
Distortion- The only inconvenience I can see with this approach is that each contributor that i want to include in my roster or other 'project' has to join and have a google (ie gMail) account as when they get the 'link' sent by me they do have to log in their account name and password on the site before they can see the document and add to it. I can see it could be a difficulty to get everyone to join google when they are used to getting a word type attachment and not having to be very internet savvy. This shouldn't be a problem for work situations though.
Reverb- Libraries can easily take advantage of Google Docs. A progressive library can maybe start letting all staff have an input on putting themselves on the desk roster when they are available and saving the admin staff some rostering headaches. I t would 'save trees' if the location of the desk roster was on everyones' google docs link, and check it each day for changes due to staff sickness, etc.
Also i can see a huge advantage when library staff from different branches, or even across councils are doing a joint project. Say for example, the recent planning for the HLS Group Seniors seminar at the State Library. One central place on Google docs sent to all 'planners' of the seminar, who add in their suggestions for speakers, timetables and themes, until the final program is agreed upon.
Distortion- The only inconvenience I can see with this approach is that each contributor that i want to include in my roster or other 'project' has to join and have a google (ie gMail) account as when they get the 'link' sent by me they do have to log in their account name and password on the site before they can see the document and add to it. I can see it could be a difficulty to get everyone to join google when they are used to getting a word type attachment and not having to be very internet savvy. This shouldn't be a problem for work situations though.
Reverb- Libraries can easily take advantage of Google Docs. A progressive library can maybe start letting all staff have an input on putting themselves on the desk roster when they are available and saving the admin staff some rostering headaches. I t would 'save trees' if the location of the desk roster was on everyones' google docs link, and check it each day for changes due to staff sickness, etc.
Also i can see a huge advantage when library staff from different branches, or even across councils are doing a joint project. Say for example, the recent planning for the HLS Group Seniors seminar at the State Library. One central place on Google docs sent to all 'planners' of the seminar, who add in their suggestions for speakers, timetables and themes, until the final program is agreed upon.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Mashups - Week 10
Harmony -
Here is my example of Mashups.
Above is a photo of mine of when I met my idol, vocalist of the Babys and solo and Bad English, backstage in a New York venue after his solo acoustic show last year on my U.S. holidays.
Above is the same type of 'motivator' screen Mashup, this time on the theme of this blog, these are some stompboxes I used at church in an effects board.
Big huge labs is such a fantastic site and tool, and it's FREE! There are many ways we could use this technology to help with our library fliers and websites.
Reverb- Also, I looked at the 'public library finder' from North America on "Libraries 411.com" and found the Santa Monica Public library that I visited on my USA holiday last July, and viewed it in Satellite and hybrid form. I thought it was an excellent new library, looking at cities like this brings back great memories, I even used Google maps yesterday to finally look up the satellite photo of my home in Sydney. It's fantastic technology.
Here is my example of Mashups.
Above is a photo of mine of when I met my idol, vocalist of the Babys and solo and Bad English, backstage in a New York venue after his solo acoustic show last year on my U.S. holidays.
Above is the same type of 'motivator' screen Mashup, this time on the theme of this blog, these are some stompboxes I used at church in an effects board.Big huge labs is such a fantastic site and tool, and it's FREE! There are many ways we could use this technology to help with our library fliers and websites.
Reverb- Also, I looked at the 'public library finder' from North America on "Libraries 411.com" and found the Santa Monica Public library that I visited on my USA holiday last July, and viewed it in Satellite and hybrid form. I thought it was an excellent new library, looking at cities like this brings back great memories, I even used Google maps yesterday to finally look up the satellite photo of my home in Sydney. It's fantastic technology.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Podcasts - Week 9
Distortion- I actually started off looking at the Orange County OCLS Podcasts site, and found two problems, or annoyances that could jade my experience with sites that 'podcast'. Firstly, their current list on the opening page offered me, at the top of the page, a video called Techno Pop, but the computers we are given to do this course on couldn't play it because it turned out the video was in MP4, and secondly when I chose one of the mp3's to listen to called 'National music Week' it is linked wrong by them and plays a story called 'Rabbit's Tail Tale' instead. Check it out for yourself.
Chorus- I chose to listen to an archived 2007 podcast from the "British Library" called 'The Holkham Bible Facsimile', as I am a Christian and that appealed to my interests. I think watching the streamed video version would have been a bit clearer.
From the "ABC" site, I went by subject into the 'sport' section, and found a stream of Roy and H.G's program 'This Sporting Life', which I must say is right up my alley.
Reverb- Going into the list on 'Library success Wiki', and looking at 'Atwood Library and Computer Centre' I saw they had a talk by 'DarcyJenish' on 'explorer David Thompson' and our library has lots of author talks that we could get permission to tape and then put on-line for those who missed them on our library site. But then again would that make the numbers of students coming along to the actual talk, which is what the accountability is on at present, decrease?
Chorus- I chose to listen to an archived 2007 podcast from the "British Library" called 'The Holkham Bible Facsimile', as I am a Christian and that appealed to my interests. I think watching the streamed video version would have been a bit clearer.
From the "ABC" site, I went by subject into the 'sport' section, and found a stream of Roy and H.G's program 'This Sporting Life', which I must say is right up my alley.
Reverb- Going into the list on 'Library success Wiki', and looking at 'Atwood Library and Computer Centre' I saw they had a talk by 'DarcyJenish' on 'explorer David Thompson' and our library has lots of author talks that we could get permission to tape and then put on-line for those who missed them on our library site. But then again would that make the numbers of students coming along to the actual talk, which is what the accountability is on at present, decrease?
Friday, May 16, 2008
Answer Boards - Week 8
Chorus- Like all the others on here I love the idea of an on-line brains trust who then drop the plug in at the end. Way to go reference librarians.
Reverb & Harmony- I love the expression, 'slamming the boards', it's an accurate description, but it really gives me a chuckle. I am full of admiration for those who are looking through answer boards and answering those questions with a 'why didn't you think of asking your local librarian' theme.
The 'http://answerboards.wetpaint.com/' A.B.L. wiki is a good starting point to help / show how to become involved in such an endeavor.
It really does remind me this whole concept of what our Young adult and Reference librarians initiated on our own library /council website, where High school students can ask a tutor a question online and have a tutor engage with them to help them with their assignments. Only thing is, it's a tutor, not one of our staff. http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/www/html/1765-online-tutoring.asp
Distortion- I do feel a bit guilty that I can't see myself ever having the time to go online and answer peoples questions in the name of promoting the library.
Reverb & Harmony- I love the expression, 'slamming the boards', it's an accurate description, but it really gives me a chuckle. I am full of admiration for those who are looking through answer boards and answering those questions with a 'why didn't you think of asking your local librarian' theme.
The 'http://answerboards.wetpaint.com/' A.B.L. wiki is a good starting point to help / show how to become involved in such an endeavor.
It really does remind me this whole concept of what our Young adult and Reference librarians initiated on our own library /council website, where High school students can ask a tutor a question online and have a tutor engage with them to help them with their assignments. Only thing is, it's a tutor, not one of our staff. http://www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au/www/html/1765-online-tutoring.asp
Distortion- I do feel a bit guilty that I can't see myself ever having the time to go online and answer peoples questions in the name of promoting the library.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tagging, del.icio.us, and all - Week 7
Del.icio.us
Chorus- From the first video I was hooked on the idea as I have never known what delicious did before and i have a computer at home that has sooo many bookmarks on it, "and that's the old way"!
Distortion & Chorus- From the exercise 'account' I can see how libraries can use one of these, but I must agree with fellow workers I heard commenting on the technology shown here that they don't look much like "CLOUDS", more like a paragraph, but it does save space in the column compared to a long "list".
Reverb- For the purpose within the library scene as a whole, creating a site like that on delicious is going to be very helpful in finding sites on stuff we need to research for putting on events with what other libraries have done, statistics and relevant Australian sites. For our own library I think wikis could be used more for day to day uses.
Check out my account- http://del.icio.us/fxstocker
I've started to add my favourites on there, and there are heaps more I can add from home.
To be honest, I think I'll be using this tool more as a way I can 'access my bookmarks from anywhere'.
Technorati.
Distortion- Well I joined Technorati, but it was having a lot of trouble tracking down my fxblog after I gave it the address for it from the address bar. I might try again another time, otherwise no biggie as I don't plan to become a world stage player anytime soon.
Reverb- I found that using the general search netted 63 results for bookmobiles, whereas there was less (54) when using advanced search under the exact phrase. Next time doing the same search I got 46 results. When I looked for nswpln2008 I only got one hit, which ironically was another of our bloggers saying the exact same thing in their blog, called Grab the Hour. What's goin' on!?
Librarything.
I must admit that even though I am a librarian I don't read that many novels.
In my Librarything account,
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fxstocker
you will see i have added in books I have at home that have stayed with me over the years.
It would be so good for people who love raving about books as much as I do about guitarists.
Chorus- From the first video I was hooked on the idea as I have never known what delicious did before and i have a computer at home that has sooo many bookmarks on it, "and that's the old way"!
Distortion & Chorus- From the exercise 'account' I can see how libraries can use one of these, but I must agree with fellow workers I heard commenting on the technology shown here that they don't look much like "CLOUDS", more like a paragraph, but it does save space in the column compared to a long "list".
Reverb- For the purpose within the library scene as a whole, creating a site like that on delicious is going to be very helpful in finding sites on stuff we need to research for putting on events with what other libraries have done, statistics and relevant Australian sites. For our own library I think wikis could be used more for day to day uses.
Check out my account- http://del.icio.us/fxstocker
I've started to add my favourites on there, and there are heaps more I can add from home.
To be honest, I think I'll be using this tool more as a way I can 'access my bookmarks from anywhere'.
Technorati.
Distortion- Well I joined Technorati, but it was having a lot of trouble tracking down my fxblog after I gave it the address for it from the address bar. I might try again another time, otherwise no biggie as I don't plan to become a world stage player anytime soon.
Reverb- I found that using the general search netted 63 results for bookmobiles, whereas there was less (54) when using advanced search under the exact phrase. Next time doing the same search I got 46 results. When I looked for nswpln2008 I only got one hit, which ironically was another of our bloggers saying the exact same thing in their blog, called Grab the Hour. What's goin' on!?
Librarything.
I must admit that even though I am a librarian I don't read that many novels.
In my Librarything account,
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/fxstocker
you will see i have added in books I have at home that have stayed with me over the years.
It would be so good for people who love raving about books as much as I do about guitarists.
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