a good byte of information

Can you See IT?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:33:00 +0000

Each day technologies emerge with sometimes an eye opening experience.
Finding a "new" technology experience to test drive whether surfing on the Internet or when shopping at your local Best Buy or P.C. Richards is always exciting!

I reflect for a moment when my dad bought me my curling iron for my hair as a Christmas gift.... I thought that was the best invention ever made since I had the straightest hair on earth!
A curling iron was a miracle to me that Christmas! It was a technology experience that I still enjoy today!

Thanks Dad!

DNL Technology Student Assistant Wiki / FrontPage

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:09:00 +0000

DNL Technology Student Assistant Wiki / FrontPage

Dancing in the Library

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:27:00 +0000

Library Techisms

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Thing Twenty-three: You Got What You Needed!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:45:00 +0000

Participating in the Twenty-Three Things was an exploratory adventure... not quite like an Alice in Wonderland Adventure but non-the-less just as exciting! Don't you think you found some curious things?

Discovering what seemed like old technology turned into something new a "redesign" ... Google Docs and zoho are similar and creative for community communications. I can see this evolving right in front of our eyes.

Blogs, Blog Readers, RSS Feeds and the mashup of a Blog into Blog Talk Radio- which is in my Blog- I will brag here was just the best! We are on Yoko Ono's website too!

Podcasts alone suffice for what they are created for, but finding the PodBean website was truly a treasure! MORE than just a Podcasting app, a synthesis of Web 2.0 "things" enabling iTune, RSS feed, downloading and even more accessibility at just one click! I will brag again! I loved it and will use it to volunteer my skills sometime in the future for a library production. (see Post 21 Mummy Found @ Your Library)

As not to bore you with all that I have learned and enjoyed here, thanks to everyone who showed the wherewithal and determination to the Finish Line! I have first place ribbon and Gold Stars! As a member of the Tech Team I am very proud!

Kudos and Hooray for you!

As Mike Jagger would say: I hope You got what you needed! I did too! Let's go for more!

Roxann

Thing Number Twenty-Two: Share and Sharon , Devin and Grace

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:09:00 +0000

What a collaborative thrill to create our "own" BlogTalk Radio session back in December 2007.

Grace, Sharon, Devin and I engaged in a lively Blog Talk Radio session about the anniversary of John Lennon's death(December 8th).

Together we experienced a blog... in a "non-traditional" Blog format.
It became an archival mp3 forever... i guess!

To find it and hear it you can locate it on our personal blogs.

It was a truly enjoyable experience!

Thing Number Twenty-One: Podcasts with your Mummy!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:03:00 +0000

Mummy Found @ Your Library:
In the 21st Century we are "Time" challenged. Edgar Allan Poe wished he knew who would be president in 2045. Don't you? Listen to an excerpt from Some Words with a Mummy.

http://rriskin.podbean.com/

PodBean.com is where I am premiering a few short teaser MP3's for a series of You Have a Voice @ Your Library ---from various Free Public Domain Classical Book sites. A major goal is to bring Back the Classics in a new venue and to encourage reading the Classics electronically. Having total control over content allows for titanic creativity and experimenting with this new library Web 2.0 idea!

Two Channels are currently available: Fright Night Classics: Edgar Allan Poe
and Existential Experiments: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dreams and Nightmares: Lewis Carroll
with more content to be added soon!

I hope you send me some feedback!

Thanks,
Roxann

Thing Number Twenty: YouTube, You Can't Always Get What You Want...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:36:00 +0000

If you have noticed anything at all on this Blog it might be the You Tube video of House...the Television show starring Hugh Laurie. HL is an acerbic Doctor at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, in New Jersey. Each episode is truly based upon extremely unusual medical cases.

House and HL have won many awards ---BTW now in it's fourth year.

A special episode of House will air right after tonights Super Bowl!

And the infamous song from the philosopher/musician Mike Jagger:

"You can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes, you get what you need."

Thing Number Nineteen: Those Fabulous Famous Web 2.0 Things

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:38:00 +0000

I would have liked to see a Library category. The search returned the following results.... I want to know if there is a clearing house of Library conferences?

http://www.confabb.com/search/results/all/library

Thing Number Eighteen: Web-based Apps: They’re not just for desktops

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:37:00 +0000

I am testing zoho writer out and it is somewhat interesting.

http://www.writer.zoho.com/public/rriskin/Zoho-Writer-Helllo-from-Roxann

Thing Number Seventeen: Playing around with PBWiki

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:30:00 +0000

This is my Blog added to the pbwiki.

http://plcmclearning.pbwiki.com/Favorite+Blogs

It was a Wiki that had a numerous amount of information in it...to say the least.

Thing Number Sixteen: So what’s in a wiki?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:48:00 +0000

I enjoyed viewing a WetPaint Wiki which seemed to be an "open" type of library Wiki.
Open means it is has an open edit feature enabled in it to users.
It also has an interesting application in the form of a "collection" of Library Pod Casts in a very small embedded application.
http://yourlibrarycsu.blogspot.com/

Thing Number Fifteen: On Library 2.0 & Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:50:00 +0000

Dr. Wendy's comments on Web 2.0 - Where will it take libraries --- a library's "product to service experience" is well worth pondering. She views Library 2.0 as a "product" where we can download digital books etc. Her view of Library 3.0... I will not say are we there yet :) but we might be there sooner than you realize and Dr. Wendy believes at this point we are a "service". A must read!

In many ways she seems to be right on track, yet I need to interject that I believe we at all .s (points) to be service oriented. This is not at all in disagreement with Dr. Wendy but in pointing out whether we are Library 1.0 through Library 4.0 or Library 5.0 , i hope I am alive to see this one!

It will be an interesting future time... and the DeLorean has brought us Back to the Future at least one more time!

Thing Number Fourteen: Technorati

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:41:00 +0000

It is a very easy way to tag your info and use it in Technorati! Exciting, fast and easy!

agoodbyte

Thing Number Thirteen: Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in del.icio.us

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:32:00 +0000

Why both are correct: these are tools for research assistance and an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere.
We have used del.iciou.us in the library to share websites. A convenient tool to share sites from anywhere at anytime.

In research, that's up to the creative researcher to save, share and preserve sites that hopefully can be accessed for scholarly purposes at a future date.

Thing Number Twelve Rollyo

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:23:00 +0000

http://rollyo.com/rriskin/a_good_byte-digital/

Thing Number Eleven The Library Thing

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:25:00 +0000

10 out of 10!

Talking about the librarything?
A very useful web tool for organizing books or collections and includes a "social" component of viewing who shares your interests in the same subjects. You also have a choice of sharing your catalog publicly too. Tag cloud your books or add meta tags , there are many choices this site offers. It is an easy and fun site to work work:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/riskin

http://www.librarything.com/catalog/rriskin

R o x a n n

Thing Number Ten Image Generator

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:41:00 +0000

"Let the beauty we love be what we do." — Rumi

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

John Lennon Tour Bus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:00:00 +0000

Campus Currents November/December 2007
http://www.fairfield.edu/cc_nov-dec07.html#top

The John Lennon tour bus was on campus on Oct. 4, with passersby
welcome to enter and tour the remarkable recording studio inside.
Students were also invited to sit down and play, and some were all too
happy to make use of the equipment. The purpose of this studio-on-wheels:
“It’s purely educational,” said one of the three guides who lives on the bus.
Next stop on their magical mystery tour: Manhattan.

HOW TO: Use Sirsi-Dynix Podcasts with iTunes

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:18:00 +0000

I'll add this to my feed list.... just in case you would like to set up your iTunes account and listen to some of the podcasts.

http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/podcast.php#feed

Thing Number Nine Finding RSS Feeds

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:18:00 +0000

RSS: Far Beyond Feed Reading: Two Different Ways to use RSS Feeds.

Some ways people use RSS in their daily lives.

Today we’re looking at work-related problems users have solved with the technology.
One of the most interesting (and heartwarming, for those of us past a certain age) responses came from Chuck Gose, internal communications manager for engine manufacturer Rolls Royce.

“In the corporate communications world, many just associate RSS with communicating to those with ready computer access or the ‘hipster’ techno-savvy types.

But what about using RSS to reach a shop floor workforce whose average age is in the 40s and who do not have ready access to computers in a facility that was build to support World War II?"

“That's exactly what we use RSS for at Rolls-Royce Corporation in Indianapolis.

Our cellular-based digital signage system, created by MediaTile, uses RSS feeds to keep our shop floor workforce up to date with company news and information,” Gose wrote.

“The ticker at the bottom of our digital signage screens (spread throughout the site in break rooms and cafeterias) is created by a series of RSS feeds, keeping our messaging up to date and consistently refreshed.”

NetNewsWire as a Discovery Tool

We have been asking our users to share their experiences with RSS. Bill Smith uses NewNewsWire as a discovery tool.

“Earlier this year I worked with a friend to set up a companion blog site to The Entourage Help Page,” he writes.

“We wanted to create something that allowed us to quickly spread news, opinions and tips about Microsoft Entourage.
“Part of our blog posting requires research, and I've been using NWW to make it easier for me to scan multiple sites that I probably wouldn't visit on a regular basis for Entourage items. The Smart List feature lets me do a quick check on things while I'm on my computer at home in the evening. During the day while I'm at work, I am using my iPhone to spot-check certain sites. Of course, because of syncing, I'm not doing double duty between the two. It only takes me minutes to do what would normally take hours of surfing.

“The del.icio.us tag integration has really helped me find small sites and blogs that I would have overlooked. These are my favorite categories to look through. I've found several gems.”
Use RSS for something more than just reading feeds?

http://www.newsgator.com/RssLearningCenter/RssForIndividuals/Default.aspx

Thing Number Eight RSS Reader and RSS Feeds, BlogRoll

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:13:00 +0000

Q #1: What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?

Newsreaders like Bloglines, let you aggregate or collect RSS feeds or website data in a specific RSS format, that usually lets you, the user, put your RSS feeds into some kind or order or organizational structure. This helps us organize our favorite sites to read in one place.

I have used the first beta readers years ago... these were really simple readers with the only purpose of adding feeds. Today RSS Readers or aggregators have more flexibility and usability combining adding feeds, blogs and now have sharing abilities within their net application.

Q #2: How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
More libraries are blogging and taking advantage of adding the feed symbol to library web sites and library blogs to help keep their readers in touch with important news, updates and just about any cool library info in general.

Check out more readers via Google and see which one works for you. I now used Google Reader as my primary RSS Reader.

Roxann's Shared RSS Bloglines Feed:
http://www.bloglines.com/public/agoodbytefeeds

Thing Number Seven: Communicate

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:49:00 +0000

For this thing number seven , simply blog about anything technology related.

Here goes:

The Blog Talk Radio... was something I discovered purely by accidental browsing.

Experiencing hosting a Blog Talk Show is a highly rewarding experience especially since it's a new Web 2.0 Technology and fits in right here!

Sharon, Grace and Devin were full participants in the endeavor to give DNL Talk Radio... Discovering New Technologies a try and a successful one at that and including all library staff participating in the 23 Things were invited as well via this blog. We also invited guests to log in and chat with us and this was just as exciting to chat, and blog at the same time.

We had fun discussing many Web 2.0 Technologies in a live radio broadcast that you can download into your iTunes as an MP3. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dnltalkradio

"Yes, it can be anything that relates to technology! You just need to share a few thoughts.
Also be sure add at least one comment to another participant’s blog. That’s what online communities are all about - connecting and communication." from the 23 Things...

Thing Number Six: Badge of Courage ....It is a book too but a flickr tool too!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:46:00 +0000

Display Flickr photos on your website as a vertical badge of photos as I did on the right side of the blog.

Thing Number Five flickr

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:00 +0000

The DNL Talk Radio ...Traveling Gnome is a photo I uploaded to the flickr site which I shot in the library to go along with the things we are testing out in Web 2.0 technologies.

It seemed like fun to try and place the DNL Traveling Gnome in the library as suggested with an appropriate book for the season... The Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol".

He seemed quite comfortable sitting outside my office on the desk with a well lit Tiffany lamp to read his book by on a cold December evening...