Website design

Eastern Regional Library 

I have come across Eastern regional library network as part of research for another course and this web page makes we wish I was a member! I belong to the City of Sydney library and their web page is less than inspiring. The list of criteria that I have devised are not that dissimilar to those of Mathews (2009) but also incorporate some of the points raised by Lazaris (2009)  and Schrier (2011) and the ERL page ticks just about every box.

The 4 C's

I watched several one minutes videos on various topics and visited the ASU twitter page, ASU ASU Facebook page and the ASU Flickr page linked on the ASU Library channel page.

The underlying principles of social media technology are the 4 C's. Below are points on how the ASU library channel implements these principles.

Second life

I have created an avatar using Second life. I have to say I am not getting the hang of it.

I found moving around very frustrating and I was not really sure of what I was doing. I appreciate that this is user incompetence and not necessarily the programme. I have to say that after a few frustrating attempts, I have given up! The first life is busy and frustrating enough without having a frustrating virtual version as well!

RSS feeds

The two feeds that I chose are a recipe feed from Taste.com.au and Australian government news and media releases.

Delicious

Delicous is a great tool to be able to store bookmarks that can be retrieved from anywhere. Tagging allows you to group bookmarks according to subject, so they stop being just a list of tags, but an organised group. You are also able to use the tags that others are using to be able to find new resources or join networks to access their tags as well as add your own.