Week 6 Google Tools

Had a good look around at the google tools :

Google Books : I actually found the complete contents of a 1858 publication, "Bayexu Tapestry, an historical tale of the 11th century, from the French of Madam Emmt" , also has some great illustrations...what a find! I have to explore google books some more to compare with other search engines.

Google Maps : I hadn't used Google Maps before so was excited to have a look. Looked up hotels in Brunswick and narrowed down by selecting the category Hotels and Pubs - could also narrow down by cuisine and rating..resulting map showing all the hotels listed alphabetically with the corresponding letter on the map. Did everyone else find 10?
Looked up my address by putting my street name, number, post code & Victoria. Came up with my address with a map and photo (photo must be at least a year old as my old car is in the street). I navigated around to look at the surrounding areas, had fun zooming in and out.

I then looked up my work address, found it but it didn't have a photo but it did have a map. I was interested to see that from here I could access the College web page, there was also more information available in the "more information" area. 53 college related web pages were listed.. Things like our ASM details....I didn't realise so much was available here.

I then got the directions from work to home. It did give me the worst possible route, even though probably the most direct (I wouldn't go that way as very heavy traffic), oh well, I don't suppose the map knows that. I clicked on the "photo" to show me the roads as I travelled..I also notice that you can put Google Map on your phone.

Google Doc & Spreadsheet : had a quick look around here and did put a few documents in. Having trouble with our Council at the moment so setting up some folders with the different areas we are dealing with. I like the spread sheet and I think I can use it for organising events etc.

Also I can't wait to try out the Translation page.

I beginning to realise how all these different google tools come together.. ...

Jenny

Google Tools

Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux, Normandy
Originally uploaded by batigolix

Having a look at Google Tools and products and see that I am already using some of them. To get this image I went into Images and simply typed in Bayeux Tapestry (tapestry is a passion of mine, even though this is not actually a tapestry as such)

I found this one in Flicker so it was easy to post onto my blog.

Week 5 Get Social - Myspace and Facebook

Well.. had a look at Myspace and some of the libraries that are using it. I think that this is good for the younger person and more suited to public libraries and the like, being informed of current events, what is available, what is happening etc. I don't think it would really be suitable for my library. Don't know of any medical libraries that have myspace!! does anyone know of one? I tried to have a look at Youthspace but my computer frooze and tried again and it it did all sort of crazy things, not much luck so gave up.
Secondly, opened up a Myspace account...had a lot of trouble as my mouse died on me so I was becoming very frustrated trying to do my best when it was winding down. Now that I am back at work I have checked to see if it went OK and it seems fine, I have added a few "friends" (fellow participants) and looking forward to adding more "stuff" and doing a bit more exploring of the possibilities. I was a bit nervous about putting in personal information about myself so really need to have another look at that... Anyway I'm on my own at work to-day so I expecting to be flat out so I had better get to it...

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Future Vision Montage

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared

Check out this video, is this the future?

Facebook

cute animal
Originally uploaded by teamme2

Just started to have a look at myspace and facebook.....I have been rather busy lately so need to do a bit of work to-morrow...hopefully I will have a peaceful day....