Twitter

Twitter is easy to sign up to, but I found it less easy to find people unless you have their username. I signed up with Manukau Libraries and commented on Tosca's Johnny Cash tweet. I failed to find Auckland Libraries but signed up to follow Rodney as well as a few UK libraries and some other book sites. I know my husband is on Twitter - but couldn't find him as his name is quite common. I'm not sure if I'll use Twitter in my personal life, but like blogs, I can see its usefulness in the work situation. Keeping people up to date with happenings at Manukau Libraries in a quick and short format sounds a very good idea. I've checked Twitter a few times since joining up and as a library user I can see its usefulness as the Manukau libraries tweets are very informative.

Zamzar - converting file formats

I used a Word document - a Community Workstream newsletter - and converted it to a PDF file using Zamzar. It was so quick and easy to do and I can't believe I haven't found or been told about this application before. I have a sneaky feeling my husband uses it and will confront him about this! A really useful application and I think I will be using this quite a bit. I then converted the same file to an html file and again it was quick and easy. A great application and thanks for introducing this to us.