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Sharon Streams Posts: 94 Join Date: 5/1/07 Recent Posts	What is your favorite web tool? 12:24 PM EDT 6/2/09 Top Please compose your answer to the following sentence and post as a reply to this thread. We'll compile the results into one big ole document! Hello, my name is ____________________________ and my favorite (or a favorite) Web tool is _______________________ because ____________________________________________________. Some WebJunction staff answered this question in video format.

Chrystie Hill Posts: 1037 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? Tags: twitter 1:47 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hi, my name is Chrystie and my favorite web tool is twitter because it keeps me connected to colleagues and friends, and it has a mobile feature that lets me carry it around with me in my purse (that is, on my cellphone).

Kendra Morgan Posts: 29 Join Date: 11/10/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 1:59 AM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Kendra Morgan and my favorite Web tool is Bloglines because this RSS aggregator helps me keep track of all of my favorite websites and blogs without having to visit each site individually.

Anna Leavitt Posts: 27 Join Date: 12/21/04 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 1:51 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Anna and my favorite (or a favorite) Web tool is Google Notes because I can keep track of my notes and access them from anywhere.

Jennifer Peterson Posts: 391 Join Date: 9/23/04 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 2:04 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Jennifer and 2 of my favorite Web tools (today, anyway!) are facebook and IM (instant messaging) because -facebook helped me connect with all the other people who loved a dear friend who passed away last year (I created a friends of Morgan Cowles group...actually the reason I joined fb) -and IM helps create efficient communication with colleagues I work closely with...quick questions, quick responses, to get work done right as I'm in the middle of tasks. -AND I visit my Updates on "My WebJunction" many times a day, to see what my friends are contributing, saying, and learning on WebJunction.

Kathryn Perkins Posts: 1 Join Date: 10/31/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? Tags: flickr 2:05 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hi my name is Kathryn and my favorite web tool is flickr because I can organize and share photos as well as join other Seattle flickr fans for in-person photo strolls, workshops and photo competitions.

Thomas Fought Posts: 1 Join Date: 1/8/04 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 2:08 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hi, my name is Tom and my favorite web tool is Google Mail, Calendar, Docs, Notes, and Delicious(not-Google) because they totally free me from configuring any computer with the tools that make me effective. And... I don't have to be concerned with backing up any of my documents. Sorry, just one is not enough

Kathleen Gesinger Posts: 14 Join Date: 2/28/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 4:56 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Kathleen and my favorite Web tool is facebook because I can stay in touch with my friends and family who are scattered all over the country, connect with current and former colleagues to share in all of our busy lives and find out that my 5 year old niece is now in love with all-things-unicorn, all while I drink my morning coffee.

Sharon Streams Posts: 94 Join Date: 5/1/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 1:45 PM EDT 6/8/09 as a reply to Kathleen Gesinger. Top Really, wow, you converted from skeptic to fan!

Michael Porter Posts: 62 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 5:04 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Michael Porter and my favorite Web tool is flickr because I can both share and organize pictures, then engage with the larger web community around our images and interests. Plus there are a TON of librarians and libraries using flickr!

Dale Musselman Posts: 1259 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 8:30 PM EDT 6/1/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Dale and my favorite web tool is Flickr because I love the photography and the chance to see the world through other people's eyes.

Chris Maruschak Posts: 4 Join Date: 9/13/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 9:23 AM EDT 6/2/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Chris and my favorite Web tool is Facebook. It allows me to stay in touch with family and friends (both near and far.) It has also given me a chance to connect "across time" with old friends from high school as we prepare for our 20th Class Reunion. There are some great appilcations on FaceBook as well.

Laura Zingg Posts: 14 Join Date: 7/6/06 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 10:59 AM EDT 6/2/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Laura and my favorite Web tool is Facebook because it expands my social life and I can learn about new and interesting books/films/music/events/news. And now I don't forget my friends' birthdays--Facebook keeps track of that for me!

Michael Shapiro Posts: 1 Join Date: 1/16/08 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 5:00 PM EDT 6/2/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Google Analytics! I've just begun my incursions into Google Analytics and WOW... That's power!

Betha Gutsche Posts: 1337 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 6:22 PM EDT 6/2/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Betha and my OTHER favorite web tool is Pageflakes (or you can use Netvibes or iGoogle) because it allows me to set up a PLE, a personal learning environment where I can pull in feeds on specific topics, from blogs or general news sites or Delicious tags, videos, podcasts, images, ...all of which makes it a much richer learning tool than a regular feedreader.

Tim King Posts: 141 Join Date: 12/13/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 10:00 PM EDT 6/2/09 as a reply to Betha Gutsche. Top Hello, my name is Tim and my favorite web tool is the whole web. Can I say that? I like it all. If I had to choose just one, I'd go with WordPress.com or Twitter, but why choose one when you have the power of your favorite (another tool: Firefox!) in your hands?

David Bigwood Posts: 10 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 11:36 AM EDT 6/3/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hi I'm David Bigwood and my favorite Web tool is Twitter because here at the LPI we have more followers than we have card-holders at our library, great PR.

Sharon Streams Posts: 94 Join Date: 5/1/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 1:28 PM EDT 6/4/09 as a reply to David Bigwood. Top Hi David, I'd love to hear more about how you use twitter to do PR for your library. What kinds of things to you twitter about? How often do you post? How much time to you think it takes? Do you get followers who twitter back to you? Sharon

Chrystie Hill Posts: 1037 Join Date: 5/11/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 10:54 PM EDT 6/4/09 as a reply to David Bigwood. Top Hello David, I haven't seen you at WJ for awhile. Thanks for stopping by! -CRH

Cindi Hickey Posts: 25
Join Date: 5/19/04

RE: What is your favorite web tool?

11:17 AM EDT 6/5/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams.

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Hello! My name is Cindi Hickey and my favorite Web 2.0 tool is iGoogle because with that I can use all my other favorite Web 2.0 tools - Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and follow my favorite feeds and my Google documents and ... well you get the idea. It is my Web 2.0 suitcase. P.S. Check out the State Library of Kansas iGoogle gadget. emoticon

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Mindy Kittay Posts: 2 Join Date: 9/18/03 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 4:48 PM EDT 6/5/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hello, my name is Mindy Kittay and my favorite Web tool right now is Facebook because it is so fast and easy to post to. I love uploading photos from my Blackberry right after I take them (Leonard Cohen concert last night-awesome!), sending updates from my computer or Blackberry as I think of them. I can link interesting articles and videos that I find on the web with the click of a key. It also gives me a fast and easy way to keep up with my friends from all over the world.

Sharon Streams Posts: 94 Join Date: 5/1/07 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 1:44 PM EDT 6/8/09 as a reply to Mindy Kittay. Top Hi Mindy, I've been hearing so many rave reviews of Leonard Cohen's concert tour that I'm starting to kick myself for passing it up. But I'm taking out the old LPs for a spin!

Kevin MacKenzie Posts: 1 Join Date: 8/28/08 Recent Posts	RE: What is your favorite web tool? 6:39 PM EDT 10/13/09 as a reply to Sharon Streams. Top Hi My name is Kevin MacKenzie and my favorite web tools are at the moment Facebook, because there are so many people on it that I couldn't find in other tools, and Google Scholar, as I use it to show students that if they have to use Google for research, that it is the preferred site to visit.