Social networking

Social networking to me is the ability for multiple users to participate in the online world by the creation, and/or alternation, of content utilising web 2.0 tools. It means users no longer just look at information on a screen but instead they interact with it to increase value and to claim a stake in it.

Social networking technologies or sites I have utilised include:

Facebook
Twitter
Second life
Blogger
wikis
Youtube
Delicious
Skype
Windows MSN
RSS
podcasts

In completing INF 206 Social networking for professionals I expect to gain a greater understanding of the social networking tools available and their applicability. In particular, through learning about social networking it will help me to develop an understanding of how these participatory tools and sites can be utilised specifically within the library and information management world to provide new and/or improved services to users in a manner which is relevant, fun and inclusive.

Active again...

Well haven't been near the blog in a long long time and thought that would be the way it stayed as I've never been the diary keeping sort...but here I am again. Uni went back as of yesterday and I'm now doing my final semester (woohoo). This time round I'm only got to do an elective - Social networking & information professionals and 2 professional activities. Uni is to blame for the reactivation of the blog as I need to keep an online journal for my elective subject so for all those not following me here I am again lol. Anyway just to update things a little more. I am no longer with the law firm having been made redundant in May of 2009 after 13 years with them. Luckily for me I found a new job after only 4 months of looking which considering we were in the midst of the GEC was pretty good going I reckon. So where am I now you might ask...well only the biggest library in the country - the National Library of Australia. I am in technical services (my first love) and work in the Australian Serials unit. The pace of working life is very different from the law firm as is the work I'm doing but I can see a long and productive life at the NLA for all is good. So now all I have to do is get into uni mode and consider what I am going to be posting on here for that...