Method 5

Just a random photo from flickr:





















This is our library cat, Stacks. He's very popular with our patrons!

I've been using Flickr for personal online photo sharing for a few years and it's by far my favorite way to keep and share my digital images.

We just recently purchased a pro account at Flickr for our library pictures. It's a great way to save and share pictures of events with our patrons.

Method 4

I've been using Google reader for quite some time. Previously I used Bloglines and while it seemed easier over all, I prefer using Google Reader for the more than 100 blogs I read.

For this exercise, I subscribed to blogs I already read including:

http://www.librarian.net/

http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/

http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack

Method 3

I agree with Jenny Levine at The Shifted Librarian that although cloud computing is a great alternative for public library users to store their data, it's important that they are taught the consequences for data failure.
I think it's a great idea for non private data, I'm a little concerned about privacy issues and that's something else that the patron should know.

Also, budget-wise, moving to Google Docs, Zoho, or Microsoft Office Live would save so much money on licenses.

Methods 1 & 2

"Social Libraries" may have been a cutting edge article in 2007 but with Google docs and Google Wave in Beta, web 3.0 is upon us.

Test Post

This is a test post for A Dozen Ways to 2-Step.