All About Food

Urbanspoon.com is a great website for those looking for quality places to eat throughout the United States. In addition, visitors can open accounts and submit restaurant reviews, photos, and menus. The site also includes maps and driving directions to a wide range of restaurants.

Other websites to consider are imcooked and Look and Taste. Imcooked is similar to YouTube and allows those with an account to submit video content and also search for cooking demonstrations by other users. If you sign-up for an account, you can rate videos and add comments. Look and Taste is a good place to learn how to cook through videos. The website offers nutrition tips, cooking tutorials, and chef videos.

If you're looking for great food, you should be able to find something at these wonderful Web2.0 sites!

Web2.0

Recently, René and I began a series of computer classes on the second Thursday of the month called Thursday Technology Train. We developed these classes in order to highlight specific Web2.0 issues that are important to public libraries.

We meet again on December 10 from 10:30-12, but we thought you might appreciate looking at our initial presentation.

Ferguson's Career Database

The DeWitt Community Library subscribes to several online databases and this week, we examined Facts on File's Ferguson Career Guidance Center. In addition to this fine database, we have several books in our Career section that may prove helpful to job seekers.

Widgets, Widgets, Widgets!

Listen as René explains what a widget is and why they might be important to learn about and include in your website or blog. Widgets!

Creating a Talking Head

Adding a talking head to your website or blog is a good way to scare off potential patrons. Just kidding! Actually, they are quite a lot of fun and add dynamic content to entice future visitors. We explored this in our podcast called, Create a Talking Head (very creative, no?)

Creating a Free Yahoo! Email Account

We have taught many classes over the year on basic computer skills and we have thoroughly enjoyed the experience. As a result, we thought that it would be of interest to our patrons to present podcasts that dealt with creating free email accounts. Here from the old podcast vault are our two broadcasts on that topic: Creating a Yahoo Mail Account Part 1 and Creating a Yahoo Mail Account Part 2.

Dubit!

Our website consists of many, many static web pages, so René and I found this little program called Dubit and we attempted to create a little video presentation complete with audio. The result can be heard here: Dubit Podcast