Week 2

So for week 2 I am very obediently going through the list.....
First stop Bebo...seems pretty vibrant and really youthful...but I didn't find it very intuitive to use i.e. if you upload a video to your profile, I could not find how to remove it afterwards when you have had enough of it :-{...but I did come across this video of ACL at Matariki starring Daniel: http://www.bebo.com/c/video?FlashBoxId=9982693184&&TUUID=d28128a3-1238-4391-8ab9-ac813c0bb9e7 so seems a great way to showcase work at the libraries! :-) So on the upside I was actually pretty impressed by how easy it was to search for a video you wanted (thanks to all those people frantically sharing stuff they like) - I was exploring Buraka Som Sistema...http://www.bebo.com/c/video?FlashBoxId=9303269139&

I'm already on Facebook and haven't used it in a while - you can maybe get to know too much about people. But I'll now used it to search for things I'm interested in - I hadn't thought of doing this before; normally I'd just use YouTube or search the net, so this was a learning point! And it seems a huge number of staff here already have profiles on Facebook, so this could be a good venue for an informal professional support network I guess (unless there already is one and my useless skills can't find it!!) Page seems to be temperamental at the mo, so will give this one a whirl later!

My Space is my favourite so far! I love the forums page - that seems a really practical way of organising the space (rather than just people linking to each other's social profiles) and timesaving if you need to find people or info fast, like at work! I found this really easy to use, and came across a Zumba page from Poland:http://www.myspace.com/krakowzumba and might be able to help this forum frequenter who needs a recipe for chocolate cake without the flour: http://forums.myspace.com/t/4721096.aspx?fuseaction=forums.viewthread.

Linked In does definitely have a different feel I think, and there are already lots of Library professional groups on there so I think this would be a great tool to use as a librarian to keep in touch with all the different networks that are relevant to your post. Also loved the feature that some of these sites seem to have where you can pull all your updates from a different site like Twitter into your profile on another - very convenient!