Week 8 Cloud computing

I have to admit, this is a concept which I had not thought of nor put a name to. Setting up a g mail account was easy but finding someone to help took time. Today, I have a fellow librarian and a fellow colleague to collaborate on my spreadsheet I created to help me keep track of the number of books my readers read for William Allen White. Hopefully, once they accept the invitation, we can proceed from there.
I can see this application being useful between my para and myself instead of sending attachments back and forth. Thanks, 23 things.
This lesson came at a good time. I had to write minutes for my District meeting. I "googledoc" them to the past co directors for proof reading and verification.https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#

Week 7, Microblogging

This weeks lesson was a challenging one. It started with me already having a twitter account and forgetting about. Therefore, tying anything to my email address did not work as it was already taken.This took most of one evening. The next day I emailed for help. Thanks to Heather who straightened me out.

I am following the Library of Congress, my husband, 23 things Kansas and google books. I found another person,, but when I clicked on follow, the site never came up on my page. Maybe tomorrow I will try again.

It will take me awhile to "learn the language" of tweeting! I believe that once I learn to "read" the tweets I might come up with some uses for micoblogging. So much information! It is like pieces of info coming toward you at high rates of speed from everywhere!
Since typing the above I have made some changes to who I follow, etc. It is hard too limit the incoming info!
http://twitter.com/sdd51

Week 6, Social Bookmarking and Tagging

What detail there is on this weeks lesson. I like the premise of everyone having access to resources and like everything else, it will require time to learn to use. I envision deliciouso as a way to save my web sites for my library lessons. At least it would move it out of email and enable me to organize the overwhelming amount of information that we recieve from various people.
It would help if I did not forget to check the following link to my bookmarking! http://delicious.com/sdouglas462

Week 5, RSS feeds

The first item of interest is that this weeks topic and assignment were easier than I thought. When I first read about 23 things kansas week 5, I was really confused. I waited almost a week to come back to it. Anyway, I am glad I did.
Second, thanks to the team for including the Lefever videos. They do explain things well
I chose Bloglines as my reader because I did not want anything going into my inbox and I use Blogspot for my blog. Might help the memory! I found steps fairly simple to follow. I added 2 feeds concerning Librarians and then one from a local photography. Yea!
My Bloglines feeds page

Week 4, Flicker

Yellow Sunflower. Blue Sky.
Originally uploaded by wabberjocky [Anthony Thomas]

Here we go again

Here is my link to Flickr

Here is the Kansas sunflower. This flower always makes me smile. They come in all sizes, just like smiles. Yellow is my favorite color so it captured my heart first off. I see them wild everywhere but have not have much success growing them in the garden. Will keep trying though!I am amazed at the options on Flickr. I can see why people are fascinated by it. Between being sick and not being able to concentrate, it was a hard lesson for me. However, we shall persevere!

The Edit posts button is the one most used on my keyboard! Still don't have the inserting pictures down, but will keep trying.

Week 3-Online Meetings

The technology for online meetings has come a long way. When I first tried to participate in an online meeting, nothing went right and we missed the whole meeting! Now, the instructions are simple.
I accessed an archived meeting from the California State Library entitled Effectively Managing Your Email by Andrew Sanderback. This was an interesting meeting with slides, handouts and much food for thought. The strategies for effectively managing your email are attainable with time spent getting your mail boxes and folders in order. This was an organized and thorough presentation and I will put some of the hints to work.

Alexandria is the automation system in the libraries where I work. Because they have a major update for everyone, Companion Corp has been offering 4 training sessions concerning the update. I have participated in 3--Circulation, Patrons and Items, Reports and Utilities. I will do the Researcher section after it is archived.For those of you you use Alexandria. have you downloaded 6.0.2 or you still using 5.5.6 (as I am). I have heard both good and bad about the update. Let me know if you have some tips for me.

I have never used a meeting myself to contact other people--perhaps it is time to learn how.

Week 2-0nline Communities

What a week online! I have to confess I am astonished at the amount of information which is available through my Facebook page. When I created my account, several of my high school classmates popped up--which I have not seen for 40 years. Whoa!
I am also overwhelmed my the technology and the choices for everything. I know I will have to visit Facebook every day to really understand and use it properly. For instance, how do you find and write on friend's walls and where is mine?
We will not be using it at school as all social networking sites are blocked. However, I may have an ability to do so on certain computer
Link to Facebook.