This month we would like for you to learn about online communities and make new connections.
Take a look at the slideshow available on HPL's wiki: http://10.34.145.39/twiki/bin/view/HPL/TechClasses
Explore the Wikipedia list of social networking websites at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Write about your experiences! Become a fan of Houston Public Library on Facebook. Can you find other HPL staff in LinkedIn? Take a look at some of the hobby sites such as Ravelry or Bake Space. How is social networking important to you as a public library staff?
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Since I'm familiar with social network sites like Facebook and MySpace, I wanted to explore a site I wasn't familar with: BakeSpace, "a place for cookers and cakers."
What's neat about the site is you can search for recipes or see the latest added recipes. When searching, there's a useful index where you can browse by categories such as Breads, Desserts, Vegetarian, Appetizers, etc., making it easy to find just what you're looking for. Some of the recipes even have photos. Finally, on any recipe, you can view comments or add your own.
If you like a recipe and want to see other recipes added by that user, you can click on the name of the user, which will take you to their page. (Once on that user's page, you can also see the latest 15 recipes that user's friends have added.) Toward the bottom of the user's page, there's a comments section very much like MySpace where you can add "brownie points" to that user if, for example, you liked their recipe.
I looked at the slideshow as per suggested, then I went to the wikipedia social networking website and read the many sites available. To be sure I am interested in joining-in with some of these groups such as StudiVZ (German) and V Kontakte (Russian), but I will probably wait until I retire from Hpl before I do that.
I viewed the social network list on wikipedia. I then went to Facebook and created a psuedo name (Christy Carefree). I was able to view other employees from HPL as well as their friends accounts. I found it to be very interesting and I may visit again.
It is important for us to know how to use these sites in order for us to be up-to-date with technical advances and to be able to better serve our patrons.
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