Just when we thought we'd seen it all! We are sent to seomoz.org to view 41 categories and over 200 websites - the annual Web 2.0 Awards. Astounding! Every conceivable category is covered from Health and Hosted Wikis to Philanthropy and Professional Networking.
I trawled my way through the finalists and the actual winners before deciding on one site to check out in detail - that may be a help or relevant to our library.
Obviously, the collaborative writing and word processing sites such as Docs.google are incredibly useful, such as our last task, Zoho. So many useful and innovative features to share, store and access documents. I was impressed with the city guide sites such as upcoming.yahoo.com and eventful.com - particularly as when you clicked in you were logged straight into your current location. Very handy - especially for the many tourists we cater for.
I settled on answers.yahoo.com (the winner of it's category) and had a good ol' looksee and play.
This site would be a great little asset for us - particularly in busy times. Often at the circulation desk we are thrown hairy little questions - or have searched for a research query that we simply cannot find the answer to. With this site I was very quickly able to type in the question and receive a quick, relevant answer. I was impressed with the speed, relevance and reliability.
Also, the fact that you are provided with the source of the answer and a side panel of related questions. I will use this site at work and recommend it - particularly to students.
On a lighter note - special mention must be give to the finalists in the "fun" area of the awards.
Games, lists, silly forward-it-ons, fart buttons, google games - have a quick peek - they provide some light relief.
But best quote I came across during the whole exercise was on cocktailbuilder.com ...
"bar full of booze and don't know what to do with it" ??????????????
No since I started this!!!
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Hi Grandma Poss,
I can't believe you actually put up a photo of yourself! Very nice! Looks like you are going 'great guns' with this program...big brother is watching...lol - 'a stone's throw away'
Hi Grandma Poss,
Been thoroughly enjoying reading your blog and thinking about the insights you have shared. It's great to see people are exploring not only the tools highlighted in the program but also associated/extended sites.
Well done!
Leslie
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