Friday, May 29, 2009

Thing 4: Flickr mashups

I was surprised how easy the mashups were. I had down similar stuff using Photoshop elements (baby Photoshop) and compared to that this was really simple!

I sent an email to the staff saying I was doing the project and motivated 3 others to start. I believe that we all need to become familiar with Web 2.0 to select what we want to utilize in our library.





Thursday, May 28, 2009

Thing 3: Flickr

I love Flickr. This is one of the 23 that I have been doing for quite a while. When I first joined Flickr I had just gone to a conference in Colorado Springs. What a beautiful place to take pictures!

I spent a lot of time visiting places I used to live on Flickr, Spokane, Portland, Boston, Bedford. I also have a mobile me account, bit jave never tried Picassa although I have it on my PC at work for storing photographs locally.

Here is a link to my Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfyoung/

It contains a mix of personal and library-related photos.
Thing 2

W
ell, Thing 2.0 was learning about Web2.0. I know Stephen from the SD conferences and have his book. I have participated in many of his webinars. Really cool and funny guy!

I had also seen "The Shifted Librarian" You Tube video and read some articles from her blog. I had read the Tim O'Reilly article when Web2.0 as a topic first came up.

I am still not sure how I feel about Web 2.0, although I have been doing selected Web 2.0 things for some time in my personal life. What I hope to get out of this project is learning a way to incorporate them into our library.

Yesteryday, we finally got the word that our RFID project would be going forward to City Council. The first thing I did when I got home was to go to my facebook page and enter that on my feed, I never thought I would feel that it was important to do that and I still can't why anyone would care about some of the routine details of my life (like going shopping.) but on the other hand a lot of my facebook friends are librarians and they would care about this.


Thing 1 of the 23 things was creating this blog, so here it is. I realize that I probably did not do it right with my first post after looking at some posts. I kind of have a lull until the next city council meeting on the RFID project, and no more symphony til fall, so will make an effort to catch up.