Tweet at the blood bank

Tweet at the blood bank, a photo by ellen forsyth on Flickr.

I didn't tweet about it (I did a Get Glue check in) but I like that the blood bank is encouraging people to talk about their blood donation online.

Are you encouraging people to talk about their library experience online?

Apps for public transport in Sydney

Apps for public transport in Sydney, a photo by ellen forsyth on Flickr.

This was at my local train station. I like the way they are making the information available where I am using public transport. I had seen these on their website, but having this information where people catch public transport is excellent. I have not tried all these apps yet. I had a few strange looks as I was photographing this.

Share your story

The Defence of Darwin Experience is an impressive museum.  I am not a regular visitor to museums about war, but occasionally will go to see how they are telling the story.

This museum was very impressive, and highlighted the diversity of the population of Darwin both then and now.

There was excellent use of archival information, with different ways to access the different kinds of stories.  You really could see the Defence of Darwin from a whole lot of angles.

They also had this booth, at the end of the exhibition, where you could add your story.  There were simple instructions and you could obtain help of you needed it.




It seemed a very interesting way to capture oral history information, and to let people know that their stories were of interest.



I was also impressed with their free wifi, which when you accessed it, encouraged the downloading of the museum app (which was also mentioned on the sandwich board outside the museum).

They were making it really easy in the museum to find out about what was available online.

wifi in Dili

I found it hard to find locations for wifi in Dili as the information was out of date.  I had internet access where I stayed (which was good), but it was nice to occasionally use wifi (for updating ebooks).

Wifi options (and I only found four) included Dili Beach Hotel (about 15 minutes walk from where I was living).

This has a beach view.  You were given the wifi password once you had ordered something to eat or drink.  I went here a few times (it was only near the end of my time in Dili that I had time to do this).  I found people were bringing laptops or tablets and it was a social way to get internet access.  I had internet access where I was living, which was great, but I used wifi to update my ebooks.

Other wifi access was at the other end of the beach.  There were two small businesses (one a computer shop and the other a fast food place) which had wifi.

There was a third place (below) which was also beach front, and packed.  It seemed there was a high demand for free public wifi in Dili.  Libraries, few as there were,  were not providing wifi (and not all the libraries had internet access themselves).  This place below, always had lots of people using the wifi.