Making and monitoring connections

Making and monitoring connections

It seems that I'm the only one of our group doing this module- at the moment anyway. It took me a wee while to come to grips with exactly what I was meant to achieve but I've completed it now.

The most frustrating part of the exercise has been the amount of downtime- waiting, crashing and having to log back in again. Also, had to call the help desk when I got blocked trying to add Delicious to my Explorer toolbar. It hasn't just been LAMS problems, maybe my computer needs more grunt or a good boot!

I did know about some of the stuff in this module, eg making nice URL's, Listservs, RSS feeds but have to admit I hadn't checked out Web site tools on the CCL website. I think this page is good value for our customers. I have enjoyed exploring and joining Delicious. Instead of having your favourites bookmarked on an individual computer this allows you to be machine independent- creating, tagging, sharing, managing and saving url's on the Delicious web site.

I have allocated 1-2 hours per week to "making and monitoring connections" and my major priority is local government issues and trends, national and international- very important for Insite work.