Infinitely Wise Leader

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Flickr was difficult to navigate at first, but with a lot of help from our infinitely wise Playtime 2.0 leader (pictured) I was able to upload all my pics and set up a group. Let me know if you would like an invite in my group to view all my pics of our coworkers on the job!

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Facebook: I like the way facebook makes it so easy to communicate to a number of people all at once and have them all see the entire picture.
Example of what I mean: Last summer my son wanted to have a volleyball tournament/party in less than 24 hours. He posted the party to his facebook page and it went right out to about 40 people all at once. Because he is in the age group, 19-20 yrs., that use facebook as a part of their everyday lives, he and everyone else, heard back from all the invitees within a few short hours. I think he only had to follow up to 2 people with phone calls. In the end he had a party of some 35 or so kids and was able to shop for all the hot dogs, chips and pop he needed within 24 hours. I found that remarkable!
I think for facebook to be most effective you need to incorporate it in your everyday life as my son and his friends have. For my personal use, I don't have the time to spare and because it is not used on a daily basis by all my friends it doesn't have as much value to me as it does to my son.
I can see value for the library, it would give us a way to communicate to those in our population that do use it daily, mainly the teens and 20 somethings.
I do have concerns about safety and personal information being available for viewing to the general public, I think it is very important to use the privacy settings. I also think it would be a good idea to offer programs here at the library on safety and privacy issues related to these social network sites. Many people are not aware that they can restrict their page from others.

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RSS Feed:
Adding a RSS feed Reader page through google was easy. Google offered a lot of recommended subscriptions which made it very easy to set up, just a couple of clicks. I also added another Feed: the Washington Post, because this was not one of googles pre-setup URLs, I had to work at it for awhile before I figured out how to add it. I then added this feed to my right side column in my Blog page. I did this through the blog layout itself. I have 2 other items on my blog page that I think are considered RSS Feeds, 'front page headlines' and 'Kandinsky artwork', these both change daily or with each log in.
RSS Feeds can be useful in a variety of ways. You can add them to your homepage, blog, or a website. They can save you valuable time from re-logging into all the sites you may want to check out on a regular basis.

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OK, I so I have a blog now!
This task was both fun and very frustrating for me.
After checking out 'Blogs of Note', I had all kinds of ideas of how I wanted my blog to look and function, so I watched the tutorial and started creating. I had loved the title headings used in the blogs Coffee Messiah and Art Car Central. Inspired, I wanted to create a heading for my blog that utilized a picture or graphic that along with the title would cover the entire top of the page. This is where my frustration began, I was not able to manipulate the provided templates to completely meet with my vision. The other thing that I had wanted for my blog was for it to have 3 areas of information. All the templates only allow for 2 areas. I would have liked more variety in templates and fonts and colors.
I probably need to be able to write my own html code to create the Blog I envisioned!
Another blog to check out is synch-ro-ni-zing from the blogs of note, it had a great use of photographs.

Blogging is a good thing and I can see many uses for blogs.
Now that I have this blog I would like to use it as a discussion of book and other media recommendations for myself, coworkers, friends, and members of the book club I belong to.

Be sure to click on BB BookClub in the right hand column. It is another blog that I created for the book discussion group I belong to. I found that template online, it is not one of the standard templates. If you are interested, see http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com But, beware...they were not all useable. I couldn't use my first choice - floral garden, error messages.