It's My Life

Click on the link below for a pop up of my Slashr presentation.


My Presentation

I never really knew these apps were around for us to use like this. I think it's a great way to showcase a collection of photos that belong to a group or series. Libraries can group their program photos together, teen events, present those in a slide show on the web, and there.. instant online photo album.

My posts are a little out of order as I set up my Flickr account so that I could post directly from Flickr to my Blog. Oh well. Anyways, what can I say about Flickr, I LOVE IT. I have all my personal photos setup for friends and/or contacts can view that are private and my public ones for all to see. As you can see from my avatar, I have a camera in hand. Even though in RL (real life), I don't always have my camera with me. Excuse me for the lingo there, I've been playing SL (second life) for a while now, RL is just a shortcut.

I also use Photobucket, but only for blinkies that I find across the web. Flickr is strictly my photos. Have a look: photosbytandy

Some things are tagged, some are not. I have some housekeeping issues to clean up. But tagging makes it easier to find your own photos and photos belonging to others. My groups, haha, I belong to too many. Hmm... my groups include: country music group, Pentax K100D, Kodak Z612 group, a group on Macro Photography, a B&W group, among a few others. It is to addicting, put I haven't been out taking pics in a month or so. I need a nice pretty snow fall to get me inspired.

This is one of my contacts photos, by Burning Rubber. I love the stories that is put together in this collection of the hamster. This is by far, one of my faves among the hamster collection. One never knows where or what the hamester (Erdmann) is going to be. Kinda like the traveling gnome. But this is way cuter.

Got my RSS feeds set up. I chose the Google Reader. It's just easier for me to keep everything with one company I guess. My email is with Google, blogger is Google's, everything is Google..lol.

Anyways, it was simple to setup the feed reader. The only little minor thing, I had to click around to find the search box for feeds that I was looking for. You have to click the "Add Subscriptions" under the white box about sharing with friends.

So, I added the following
The Shifted Librarian
Star Tribune
Kentucky Wildcats- Cat's Pause
WKYT- Sports First
WKYT-WYMT Mountain News
Reader's Club Latest

The nice thing, especially since I'm keeping things all within one account basically, log into my gmail account, then click to view the reader. Anyways, it is nice to have one central location to check on the news that only matter to you or want to keep up with.

Teachers and media specialists could use the RSS feeders to stay in the know of subject matter that pertains to their area of expertise.

Library 2.0, what an exciting time.

Finding time to blogg or explore what is going on in the world of Library 2.0, I don't have a time issue with that. In a couple of my classes, which are all online based, have me looking at websites, bloggs, I'm a Myspace and Facebook user as it is, to keep in touch with family and friends online. So finding time isn't that much of an issue for me.

I hope by participating in 23 Things on a Stick, I'll get a better idea of what is being used and how in the world of libraries in a virtual world. Also, to see what will work best for my own library.

The web has made much things easier for me. My classes for example, are all web based from the University of Maine @ Augusta. I'm not burning gas to drive to a college 2 hours away all to get a degree in Library related field. As for finding quick information, the web is a plus, but one needs to be aware of the sources, anyone can make a website.

As for my library being aware of Library 2.0 technology. I think we are dragging our feet on a few technology things. Though, I have been asked to suggest anything to make our site more interactive and such. One thing that our teen/reference librarian and I were in the talk with constructing, a teen Myspace page. So maybe we will get that up and running... start networking across the country.

But most importantly, I look forward to learning about all this Library 2.0 and ways to implement it into the library world.

Thing 1, which consisted of registering my blog was easy. Thing 2, creating an avatar was fun, but very frustrating. I think Yahoo was having issues as it took me 3 tries to get y avatar to save and on top of that, Blogger was acting on as well. Not a good night. Anyways, when things run smooth, it makes life a little easier, but when issues like those I mention happen, well... it's frustrating. Now this is my second attempt at posting this blog. Good Luck to me.

I just registered my blog to participate in 23 Things on a Stick. It's about learning some of the Web 2.0 applications that are out there. Like Flickr, social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook, LibraryThing, etc. Some of these I already use, but I'm looking forward to learn how to apply these apps in the Library world. Plus, I'm sure I'll find something useful and apply from both my classwork and this training. Should be lots of fun.