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HOW TO PUBLISH FROM ZOHO WRITER TO YOUR BLOG:

1. Create a document in Zoho Writer


2. Save it (as you would in Microsoft Word)


3. Click on PUBLISH (top menu bar)


4. Select "Post to Blog"


5. Follow the prompts. (FYI, username is email address)


6. Select "tag" or "draft"


7. View Blog now...you will find in it your draft if you selected that one...not sure what happens with tag...must try that later!

p.s you can edit your draft when you are in the edit mode of your blog, (as I am doing now,) but all the cool stuff, (smileys, colors, and odd symbols) are back in ZOHO...

http://www.writer.zoho.com/

week seven; thing 17: sandbox wiki

I love sand, the warmer the better. It's the perfect medium for burying things, (your brother's flip-flops, the rest of your pb & j, and definitely your heels, but not pretty toes) and making things, (castles, animals, tunnels, signs,)

This virtual sandbox has many of the same qualities.
The Maryland Libraries Sandbox is a wiki where you can play at creating a wiki. You can bury your mistakes and make new ones!

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undercover

grapefruit

week seven; thing 16: wikis

Here is my neat-o caption encapsuling the wiki idea. (I really like the word!) "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase "wiki wiki", which is commonly used to indicate something fast. It is a quick-to-build, easy-to-edit website on which all information can be edited, changed, or rewritten by the users or members of the site.

Guess what? There is a neatly-organized wiki just for me! It is called: Library 2.0 in 15 Minutes a Day. No joke! This means I still have hope of winning the coveted ipod! See for yourself, (the site, not the ipod.) http://instructionwiki.org/Library_2.0_in_15_minutes_a_day

And then I came to http://www.wetpaint.com/. I am going back there as soon as I can! I wanted to make a wiki on-the-spot! The home page said in big letters: PLEASE TOUCH. That's just what I wanted to do. But a wiki is a collaborative effort, I told myself. It begged the question: A wiki with whom; A wiki for whom?

Libraries can use wikis in many ways. We could have a community wiki where people post the latest and the greatest information that they already seek, such as: "Do you know of a good place to eat seafood?" Or "Where is the county fair?" Or, you could have a book-review wiki with some interested patrons, or a readers' advisory wiki. You could even have a wiki for staff development or maryland askusnow. Endless wikis!

week six; thing 15: web 2.0, library 2.0, and us

What does Libaray 2.0 mean to me? OK, this is a set-up. Library 2.0 either has meaning, apart from my understanding of it, or it has no meaning, or worse, (and this is what I fear and dread,) it has an evolving meaning depending on what people think and say about it. Hence, the set-up. Which is it?

I've never actually heard anyone speak about Library 2.0 in a conversation, in an actual live conversation that takes place in a particular place at a particular time with people you can touch. So, tonight, at the dinner table, I threw out the question:

"What is Library 2.0?" Blank faces stared back at me...five of them; four youthful, vibrant, computer-savvy faces and one tired, older-wiser face.

"How about Business 2.0 or Web 2.0, have you ever heard of those?"

No. Never heard of that. After a long pause, someone braved the question, "Isn't it some kind of computer software?"

To be honest, I think the name is all wrong. It does sound like computer software. You could buy it, install it and run it on your computer, and then I wouldn't have to define it!

Wikipedia says Library 2.0 is "a loosely defined model for blah, blah, blah..." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_2.0) Loosely defined model? What is that?!!

So I did some research: I googled it.

I read some perspectives on the 2.0 concept. First I read about Business 2.0 and Chris Anderson's long tail meem. (see http://www.thelongtail.com/) Chris Anderson talks about a new economic day, in which the niche rules instead of the popular, due to the advent of the internet and the new consumer-driven power to buy in a new, diversified fashion. Then I read about Web 2.0 (websites that rely on user comments to be successful.) Lastly, I read all five suggested readings about Library 2.0. I read the discussions too. Bottom line: I wish it were a computer program!

And here is the point of this monologue...it's not really a monologue is it? But it feels that way--- sometimes. Other times it feels freaky. Freaky because I am writing and posting and who-knows-who is reading my thoughts. It wouldn't be so freaky if I weren't really writing my thoughts...if I were just writing fiction, or something, but I'm not. I digress. Back to Library 2.0 and what it means to me.

Basically, Library 2.0 means that instead of information collection and distribution being directed from librarians to the people of the community, in a one directional way, now information collection and distribution is a two-way street, where librarians and patrons interact on the same level platform.

But that's not what it means to me. That is the definition I coughed up as a summary of what I have read online. That's what I think everyone else means when they write about it.

So what does Library 2.0 mean to me? OK, here goes! It is a type of software program after all, but it operates inside a person, in their way of thinking, not in a computer. A computer scientist once told me: The computer is a tool. It does not think. It is only as useful as the person makes it. Library 2.0 is about people using the computer with Web 2.0 technology to converse and collaborate with other people in the pursuit of knowledge.