Week 6: Face book

Out of all the topics that we've had to do for Web 2.0, I liked this week's one the best, because I had already been using the Facebook for a while now and I like it as a social site. I don't usually put updates on there, but I always look into my friends updates, see what they are doing. I especially love going through all the photos my friends have loaded on there, but that's probably all I do now, occasionally I'll send them a post or something. It allows you to chat online as well so I've chatted to friends that way too. I will always use Facebook and I've seen many customers use the Facebook in the library as well. I think the idea of Manukau Libraries being on Facebook is very smart. I looked at the Seattle Public Library on Facebook and found that people are very engaging there, posting lots of questions and updates and things.
I've posted something on the Manukau Libraries page today, about what book I'm reading right this moment.

Week Four: Good Reads

Goodreads is a free website for book lovers. Imagine it as a large library that you can wander through and see everyone's bookshelves, their reviews, and their ratings. You can also post your own reviews and catalog what you have read, are currently reading, and plan to read in the future.
Create a post and tell us how this site can be used for readers' advisory purposes, consider: how might customers find GoodReads useful? What would library staff get out of this site? Would you promote GoodReads to customers? Why/why not?t

Right... I've taken the tour, done a bit of exploring and now going to write my comments. I think if we were doing reader's advisory I probably wouldn't recommend this website as it does not suggest similar authors and titles like some other websites do. This website is good, in my opinion, if you like to make diary record of all the books you've read or going to read. It's almost like the My Library on our Manukau Libraries website.