Item 5 Flicker Cont.

OK so I got them to upload from my computer but I still can't get them from Flickr. Never mind. Tired of trying. At least I can do it this way.

Thing 5 Flickr

Ok so Thing 5 was way harder than it should have been. I started to do it at work but my December 2008 vacation photos were on the computer at home. I came home and tried to upload them. Thought I was successful. Well you know what they say about assume. Next day at work photos were not on Flicker. Next night went back to Flickr from home and uploaded photos. They said my premium subscription had expired. Ha A marketing ploy. I have never
had a Flickr premium subscription and I have had photos on Flickr for years. Then I found out I can only keep 200 photos -- but I don't want to delete any of my holland pictures -- I love my tulip pictures. OK so I deleted a few of Amsterdam -- kept the tulips and added some pictures from our December cruise. The one I am trying to add here is me enjoying myself. My husband said that librarians have a strange method of "booking a cruise".
Hmmm I'm not sure where the photos are. I clicked on the photograph and pasted the URLs and uploaded to blogger but what now?

Thing 4 RSS

Well, I'm only 7 things behind but I am back on track again. Today I looked at RSS feeds. I have been using them for a while on MyYahoo but there have been some that I couldn't get to add to the page. (Like the 23 things). So I opened up a google reader account and sure enough that one added right in. Hmmmm I went back to Stephanie's article (how many people miss her not being at NEFLIN) on top ten blogs and added some of those to my list. Hmm I may need to search for her blog so I can stay on top of what she is up to. One of my favorite RSS feeds that is right at the top of my MyYahoo page is from ALA. You can do a job search of their job listings and then have an RSS feed of that search. So if a job is added that fits your search it shows up on your page. The second feed on my page is the Blah Blah Blah Blog -- another great one. OK so I'm sucking up a little but I know Brad reads this so......
Well that is all for this thing now back to work -- I have to go count some surveys.

Haven't gone further than AZ

For those of you following this blog. Don't give up hope. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth although Arizona feels a whole lot different than FL. Between CPLA, SSLLI and finishing up at work I haven't had a chance to move on to the next thing. Fear Not. Serving Diverse Populations will be over soon (one more class and one more paper) and Managing Technology will be 2 days of classes here in Arizona then two papers and my CPLA work will be DONE. Just the ALA paperwork and the approval. I will move on to thing 4 soon I promise. In the mean time take care and try to stay warm. This is why we moved to FL?? (actually AZ is cold and rainy)
Bonnie

Thing 3 -- Technorati

OK so I'm not sure I want the world to know what I am writing in my Blog. After all I am job hunting and what is I say something like XXXX Library doesn't even have a disaster plan and they see it and decide not to offer me a job. I know, I know, don't say anything you don't want the world to see. Well I went ahead and registered at Technorati anyway -- under an alias. I'm also using an alias in Facebook which my son thinks is hysterical. The OCLC report said that the younger generations aren't as paranoid about identity theft and privacy as my generation and especially librarians. I looked at blog search engines bloglines and technorati. I searched under my last name and the searches were TOTALLY different. I did learn that there is a plaza that bears my last name in a town out west. I have a phone interview Tuesday with the library in that town. A little goosebumpy if you ask me. After poking around a little on both sites I liked Bloglines better. Even tho Technorati had videos as well I just felt a little creepy there. Bloglines had the visual similarity to google and that may have been why I was more comfortable. The posts that were brought up had a different feel to them as well. I had a birthday last week -- maybe I'm too old to share myself with the world and feel good about it.

Thing Two

Thing two is reflections on Web 2.0. It was funny because I read the Neflin post asking us to reflect after I read the recent American Libraries article "Testing the Web 2.0 Waters". I try to keep up-- I really do. Time and energy seem to conspire against me. My kids help me stay up to date. I was IMing with the best of them 10 years ago when our son was in college. Our daughter-in-law was in my space. So I joined my space. The kids in our service area were using my space so our library has a my space page. Now my daughter-in-law and son both use face book so -- guess what I have a facebook account. The kids in our service area are moving on to twitter. And so it goes.
I've aggregated RSS feeds for a dozen blogs (the Neflin 23 things one won't add), but most of the time I do no more than skim the headlines. I'm a firm believer that you should be where your users/patrons are. If they are using blogs then the Library System needs to blog. If they wouldn't know a blog from a bog then you should concentrate your efforts eleswhere. Just because we can dosen't mean we should.
Maybe after I finish the 23 things I won't feel like I'm playing catch up. I'll be even with the rest of the world for oh.... 23 seconds at least.
Now on to my CPLA class homework. Who would have thunk 10 years ago we would be taking synchronous classes and trainings on line...
Currently reading: Strength for the Journey and listening to 1st to Die ( and my homework for CPLA and SSLLI)

Thing 1 -- Blogs

It is January 12th and we are starting 23 things at NEFLIN. Yipeee!. I can't wait to learn new things and learn more about things I already use. I created this blog several weeks ago (with great difficulty I might add) because I just couldn't wait for January 12th. Between SSLLI, and my CPLA classes and my design team work for the Ladies Retreats this is going to be a little more difficult than I had hoped. But I'm game -- Let's Go!