Nings

There is certainly a lot of information packed into the pages. I have come across a Ning in my "other" life as a crazed scrapbooker and liked the format. It was not as busy as the ones listed in this blog post. But they certainly able to link up a lot of tools into a place that looks so much like a website that everyone is familar with - an option worth exploring particularly for a staff info page.

Evaluation

Evaluation is a great idea and one that I admit not doing enough of. I have found the hardest thing with the evaluation tools is to understand what each term refers to and then which of these items evaluates usage the best.
I have jooined up to Google alerts so it will be interesting to see what results come in. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised - but I have the feeling I will not get much results. Will keep you posted.

Delicious

I find delicious a good way to display a list of websites - Wagga City Library has used this method - it is more visually appealing than a huge list of website addresses. I found the hints useful and have passed them onto colleagues, particularly about organising the tag cloud.
Connections between the various social media is certainly increasing.

Twitter

Just tried to have a look at Twitter and could not as it had reached maximum capacity, come back and try again later. I guess this just shows how popular this has become. From the Tweets that I have read in the past this form of communication has not appealed to me. I can see how addictive this con become particularly when used with a mobile phone.
Tweeting seems to be a very interactive medium. We can tweet, but to also find out what other people tweet about you or add to their conversation.

Refresh

 I have found it fun to update the look of my blog, providing a bit of freshness. Amazing what a new look can do - even playing with the different colours.

The next stage

Technology is certainly changing and just when I think I have a handle on one thing another pops up that has great potential. This certainly come under the category of lifelong learning.
Knowing about a technology is one thing - I have found that the best way to learn is to actually participate and use the technology. When I went away on long service leave I created a blog so people at home could follow my adventure and I could even download a photo or two - gone are the days of just sending a postcard. The laptop is now almost a required travel accessory. I found the blog to be very useful for this and had positive comments from friends.
Unfortunately the blog I created for work did not have the same success - and in redeveloping our website we are even ditching the blog for other technologies. We will have to wait and see how this all develops.