Web 2.0 Awards Winners

One of the Awards Winners I chose was Genealogy, and inside this category I opted for My Heritage.
I was able to create my own family tree. I have never done one before. By using this tool, it was pretty easy to create and edit all my family information.
Yes, I see a big potential in using these tools by Library users. There are easy, editable, and they can be the owners of their own web page.

ZOHO WRITER

INCREDIBLE!
Zoho Writer is the best!
I was able to create my document about the shrimp industry in Ecuador. I edited, inserted pics, saved and published it in my blog. Everything done in a wink of an eye.
I was even able to share my document with some friends by using email addresses.
Could not be any easier!
Thanks Zoho...

Shrimp industry

THE SHRIMP INDUSTRY IN ECUADOR

The shrimp industry started in Ecuador towards the year of 1969. Farmers who started in the business did not have enough information about the cultivation. Originally they started by capturing the shrimp seeds from the oceans or estuaries and then transport them, in plastic containers, into the breeding pools. These seeds were maintained in the pools under specific conditions. The water had to be under certain temperature, and the larvaes were fed following nutritional patterns. The seeds lasted in these pools por a period of 4 to 8 months until they turned into adult age. Then they were ready for being reaped and commercialized.

The original size of a pool was between 20 and 100 hectare, but today the ideal size is only of 10 to 25 hectare. Normally, the pool shape is rectangular, but some shrimp farmers opt for the trapezoidal ones depending on their convenience.

Most of the shrimp farms are located near the ocean, where farmers can pump salt water into the pools.

Ecuador is the first country in exportations of captive shrimp with a production of 120000 tons of shrimp, which have produced earnings of lots of money only defeated by the petroleum. Also the shrimp industry has given employment to more than 500,000 ecuadorian people.

The principal buyer of Ecuadorian shrimp Is The United States with a 42%, also other important buyers are: Spain, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, etc.

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PBCLS Exploring Web 2.0 SandBox wiki

I chose to do a wiki on Restaurants. My favorite one is Bahama Breeze.

About 3 weeks ago, I was in Orlando and one night we went around the International Drive area. We spotted this restaurant, and we thought it could be good. It was incredibly good. Excellent pina coladas, yuca frita as an entree, and then the yummy and delicious Coconut Shirimp.

Food was a delight. That is why I highly recommend this restaurant.

Wikis can be really good for Libraries. Different kind of wikis can be created for example, wikis on best sellers, wikis on authors, wikis on books of the month, wikis on topic of the month. In conclusion the application of wikis can be a plus!

WIKIS

I really liked this part of the exercise. It is interesting to know that you can create a page of your own, you can add info to someone's article, or you can edit something that is already in wikis.

St. Joseph County Public Library wikis is simple, easy to read and to understand. It gives you important information. They give you other subject options.

I think ALA 2008 Anaheim, CA wiki is very informative. It is the kind of site that provides servers with everything related to the conferences.

The Bull Run Library is all you need to learn. You will find it there! Great.

Libraries can really benefit from wikis. Each Library can have its own page advertising services, or they can open a wikis for patron's requests, where

PERSPECTIVES ON WEB 2.0, LIBRARY 2.0

I read some of the articles related to the innovation of our Libraries services.
I completely agree that our Libraries have to move away from printed collections into those that are available to the patrons online. Those that can be reached from their homes, work, and in the libraries.

Todays concept of libraries is more than a service provided by libraries employees. It is a a more accessible and participative service in which patrons can consult but also interact, suggest, and leave their own feedback.

I see Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 as the immediate technology for our libraries. They both are similar in technology. I agree with the concept of Library 2.0 in which library collections should be digitalized and accessible to everybody. This works well with the principles of the OCLC.

Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 represents the beginning of a new Library concept.

Let's move forward!!! Let's go for Library 2.0.

EXPLORE TECHNORATI

In exploring Technorati, I found that many blogs are about the Palm Beach County Libraries. They are talking about the Mousing Around Tutorial. Another blog describes how to find list of Science Fiction books by going to PBCLS page, and how to find links to these books.

When I searched for the tag Web 2.0, surprisingly I found 29,943 posts. The post published for this specific tag are related to web 2.0, technology, web, internet, blogging, etc.

It is amazing how this new technology can put together web sites, comments, blogs, and articles into one site.

DEL.ICIO.US

It is handy because it keeps all my favorite sites in one place.
It is useful because I can access these sites from any computer.
In the Library, it will apply for research only with those sites that are frequently requested.

WebFeat

By using WebFeat I was able to find several articles related to my town Guayaquil, Ecuador.
One of the articles was in the World book and described very well the location of my town, as well as some history of the city.
I also found articles related to the politics.
The good thing about WebFeat is that all the articles were condensed under one search.

My Library Thing!

My library thing is an interesting site. You can catalog your own books. You can keep track of what you've read. You can add tags for specific books.

It's like creating your own personal library.