Monitoring and Managing

This module has demystified the catalogue quick search links we have on the desk pcs. Having search bookmarklets for the library catalogue cinch and local eye on my home computer toolbar saving time finding the link in my bookmarks. Highlight text and search for it in the bookmarklet of your choice be it the quick search the library catalogue, quick search cinch, quick search localeye, google, oxford english dictionary etc. I dragged the Oxford English Dictionary bookmarklet to my toolbar as instructed but it doesn't seem to conect, a shame, there may be time to take another look at it later. I'm not sure of the rest of the range of bookmarklets like resizing windows or page freshness are relevant to me at the moment but give an insite to tech heads lives.
I have put off subscribing to List servs for years for fear of being bombarded with emails so we will see how it goes. I subscribed to PubSig, ITSig and NZLibs it will be good to see what its all about.
My IGoogle page is making a lot more as I tailored it more to my needs recently. Currently I've got my Gmail, Google calender, Blogger, BBC news, Weather, Wikipedia search box, To Do list, Suduuku, Google news, Date and time and Blogs of note on it. I've imported my foxmarks and my Internet explorer bookmarks, now its a horrible confusing mess but they are all there and eventually I can find them, it needs a bit of work on my part to make the bookmarks more organised and workable.
GoogleWave looks promising for collaborative work enabling collaborative work on a document or viewing a video, while editing and giving comments in real time. You can invite who you want to collaborate or inviting people to view rewind the changes people have made to see who contributed what, this is all done through your browser which for some reason is important, looks easier to manage than a Wiki and I see a MediaWikiWave too just to add another feature to the pot.
This module also gave me the opportunity to revisit Delicious I originally bookmarked on Delicious to give me access to my bookmarks on other computers, however IGoogle gives you access to Google bookmarks as well as your Internet Explorer bookmarks and Foxmarks so I stopped using it. The advantage of Delicious is you can search for bookmarks and tag them so you can find them again easily and share other peoples bookmarks and your own. Subscribing to bookmark lists by tag or from a person of interest to you enables you to follow additions to the list much as an RSS feed. Its best features are the ability to create blog rolls which link to your blog, the ability to import and export bookmarks to firefox and Internet Explorer using the toolbar bookmarklets. From now on all your bookmarks will be instantly accessible both in your Firefox and Internet Explorer browser and from your bookmarks page on the Delicious website. Any changes you make to your bookmarks in either location will be synchronized. For example adding or deleting a Delicious bookmark in Firefox will add or delete it from your bookmarks page on Delicious which is very cool and its just a matter of clicking Tag button to add a bookmark to both of them which is great as its a drop down menu under Bookmarks to bookmark a page in Firefox which is a little clunky. I follow one RSS feed from Deli.cio.us through my Bloglines account Delicious/mstephens7/library, Delicious enables me to search for other lists of bookmarks from this account holder by searching for them under people and filtering the list by different tags I can further refine which of their bookmarks I follow.
I hadn't completed the Gadgets and Widgets module so I wasn't sure what Netvibes was so I did a quick reckie of the module and found it was the quickest module ever to complete so I can put another tick on my certificate. IGoogle and Netvibes usefulness for a team page is the question we are asked well since the good folk in the Digital libraries team have put all that effort into Desknet it seems a little redundant but I can see the use for a library without that IT support and it would be very useful.
As far as managing my RSS feeds go my priority is the CCLblog and

Bibliofile

blog then the rest of my RSS bloglines feeds as time allows I'll try to spend 10-15 minutes a day on the desk at quiet times. I would use http://www.libworm.com if I need RSS feeds on a particular topic and I haven't time to scan the feeds I have subscribed to using Bloglines and GoogleReader.