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Ashlee and Misty

Ashlee and Misty
Originally uploaded by peachy92

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The top of the Mountain

I've gotten more out of Eleven Things than I expected I would. New experiences have given me new ideas (now I've got to do some follow through!) Always a good thing.

I understand why the social networking sites/technologies are popular and useful. Also I feel I've gotten some idea about their impact and role in libraries. I'm anxious to learn more at the GOLD/GALILEO meeting I'll be attending this Friday, the sessions are about Library 2.0. Ann, Melissa, Jewell, Nancy and I are confernece going, Nancy thought of creating a Wiki to help coordinate our trip planning for the confernece. Jewell put one up, it helped!

I liked the game-like, social, spoon-full-of-sugar format of this learning experience very much.

What will I carry on with? I think I'll want to keep up with Good Reads (too fun!) and Delicious (truely useful!) I hope I'll use wikis, image generators, widgits well. My Space is pretty static, so no effort to leave that up and see if any famous people want to be my friend.

I plan to put some Armstrong archives photos up in Flickr. Need to learn a bit more about Flickr, but I think might be a fun, on-going project. I'll post to this Blog about it.

I think I'll continue to post to this Blog about Library 2.0 ideas/projects, like what I learn from the conference. I'm not sure how often that will be; I don't know how much I'll have to say. I do like blogging, though, perhaps I'll start another or morph this Blog with a new topic.

My Space

I decided to join My Space instead of Facebook, 'cause I have a friend who is already on My Space and I find friends are important in this world of social networking. Looking at a few profiles, I find most folks have impossibly many and famous friends.

From reading an newpaper article on security issues with Facebook and MySpace, I discovered that these sites have groups. I didn't notcie groups on MySpace I think because I found the site overwhelming with ads and links and so hard to navigate and use. I didn't join the any of the disgusting groups mentioned in the article, but I easily found the Armstrong group and joined.

I put in a profile (I'm a pro at summing up my interests now), a photo and sent a message to my friend (that I could have sent via regular e-mail.)

I guess the point of this site is to meet new friends through your friend's friends.

Delicious

After downloading the tag button to my browser, I'm off and running adding websites to delicious. I'm thinking this will save time, especially if the tagging I'm doing helps and I can create a covenient organization for the sites, haven't done that part yet.

Useful both for remembering an odd site and for handyness: having a web-based list easily accessible, hopefully used instead of constanting searching the same names in google.

And, of course, it is fun and social, I liked checking out Jewell's site (I learned of it from her Blog.) That remindes me to cruise over to Jewell's and add the house hound's favorite that I saw she had a link to. A local government site that is a gem for looking at houses in Savannah: photos, location, price! It can also be used for stalking (ahem, keeping in touch...)

Dipping into Blog Ocean

Looked into Blogs of note and the first I chose, RickLibrarian, turned out a reader after my own heart. Through his blog I explored others, soon I was deep in book review blogs and books to be read.

Armstong's Flickr

I searched "Armstrong and Savannah" and found that there are many photos of the campus and student life at Armstrong, most of them put up by one student. It was exciting to me that a student had done a set of the school, here is the url:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peachy92/sets/72057594137852274/

She also has sets for the Wesley Foundation and the ACM group on campus, see her complete sets

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peachy92/sets/

In the Wesley Foundation set I found a couple great pics of Ashlee and Misty. When I tried to save/and upload to this site I was not able to see the photo. Perhaps some protection in place there or incompatibility.

I left a comment for peachy that I'm interested in her work and encouraging it for other students.

I think my next step is to explore putting some of the fun photos from the archives on Flickr, than maybe using that as a draw.