Social Networking

OK, no one believes me but the fact of the matter is that I'm really not that social. I love my privacy and my quiet time. On the other hand, I like to be up on things and take pride in knowing what's going on locally and in the world. So.....I'm familiar with social networking sites and at Kat on the Beach's invitation I did create a MySpace page several months ago. The trouble is, I never go to it and honestly could just care less about it. I just had to prove to myself that I could do it.

I do think it's a fascinating phenomenon and love the idea of libraries being out there on My Space. Of course, I knew that our Askalibrarian service has a presence there and I can tell from reading over the transcripts that it is used. Fantastic!

I didn't go check on the ubiquitous Tom only because I was at Swofford's Alley first and saw the answer to the question!

I'm having trouble concentrating on our project this week as I'm trying to get all my work caught up before I leave for vacation Weds. Talk to you all when I return!

What great co-workers!

I just want to say a word about what I see as the very best outcome of this 10 week exercise. It's really not even about becoming more adept at technology, although that's certainly a plus. It's really about teamwork! I've been so impressed reading all you folks' blogs. Almost everyone writes, "thanks to so and so for helping me, I was able to put up an RSS feed, or I was able to load my photos to the web." This is fantastic.

Library Sue, another one of our tech gurus, has just given me a hint regarding another picture site that seems to work smoother than those generators. Too bad though because I really liked the photo I generated. It was a lovely, big 747 on a runway with the logo "Wanderlust" on it. Speaking of wanderlust, I'll be getting out of Dodge for a few weeks and won't be able to complete my assignments in a timely manner. Sorry, but I doubt I'll be blogging from the cruise ship. At least not on this blog - maybe on my book blog though since I plan to cart at least 6 books with me (not to mention the 3 on my mp3) and Don will have his laptop.

I went to Library Thing, made ANOTHER account (good thing we're writing down all these passwords) and then I made a list of some of my favorite reads. It's somewhat interesting to see how many people who are on LibraryThing read the same titles that you do and I guess I could see that, if I was really lonely and had no one to talk to about books, I might enjoy speaking with one of the other 300-some folks in the whole of LibraryThing land who, like me, mention Frank Rich's autobiography Ghost Light as one of their all-time favorites. I kind of doubt I'll be back there too often.

Undeterred!

I'm back to try another day......OK, wasted 20 minutes and still can't get my really cool photo into this blog. Trying one more thing and then I've got a book discussion to work on....Ah ha! I received an error message from blogger..........later

Oh yeah, this is why I don't try to anything fancy to my "myspace" page or to my other blog for that matter. Life's too short to spend this much time trying to be clever. I love the results when someone else does it - for instance the Ft. Myers presentation at staff day Monday - but I just don't have the patience for it myself.

Week 5 - Generators (not for hurricanes)

Well, I thought I was the clever little wench by making a picture to post on the page. I saved it to my pictures and can't seem to get it to load. I'm going to experiment with it right now. If you see a photo below you'll know I got it together! Kathleen tells me it's them - not me. Whoo-woo. I'll try again later..........Time's a wasting.

RSS Feeds - Week 4

Oh yes, this week was MUCH easier than last week and the flickr fiasco. (thanks everyone for your suggestions and comments by the way). I'll go back in there and try again when I remember to bring some of my great travel photos from home.

Meanwhile I already had a bloglines acct. and I have successfully set up an RSS feed from my other blog which is all about books. Bloglines is a huge timesaver and organizer - perfect for library types who prefer to have their information categorized. It's also excellent for those of us who have grown into that forgetful stage in life where we don't even remember what we named our own blog let alone all the other ones we'd like to see!

I receive Laura's professional collection blog through bloglines, along with her personal one. I also get all my daily political fixes there through the dailykos, Slate and Huffington Post. I am absolutely loving the free range librarian, Karen Schneider, and now I'd like to add some of my co-workers' fabulous blogs, so do put up an RSS button.