Catching Up

I really need to get with the program. It may look like I've lost interest but there are so many things vying for my attention in this highly distracting world that I haven't been keeping up either with the learning or the blogging. I did actually complete week4 on RSS feeds a few weeks ago, but never wrote it up.

RSS feeds are fun, and of course provide even more distractions. I tried to limit myself to ones I was really interested in, and control myself by scanning the titles and making sure I only read the ones I am really interested in. But I do find that one thing leads to another and I can find myself immersed in other stories that I have found on the same page as the one I originally wanted to read. I have to develop more discipline.

I can see how RSS feeds might be useful on our library web page. I'm sure our clients would love to receive feeds of new titles, upcoming events etc.

Change

The Essence of Fundamental Change

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This presentation is the personal view of Marina Noordegraaf of the essence of "Presence: An exploration of profound change in people, organizations and society", Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski en Betty Sue Flowers



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Change

Found this on LibraryBytes and decided it was appropriate for my blog as well. I was already a member of Slideshare although I haven't done anything with it before now, so thought I'd try uploading. It was actually quite easy to upload by clicking on the "Blogger" button under the slideshow but then strange things started happening. The slideshow didn't display so I tried uploading it again - to the sidebar this time, but it cut off half the frame. then I had trouble trying to work out how to delete and start again. One thing I discovered is that Blogger isn't very user friendly and the help pages not very clear, but eventually I worked it out by trial and error, started all over again, and was finally successful.

"Speak Up" is the new "Shhh..."

I found this photo on FlickrStorm http://zoo-m.com/flickr-storm. I searched "libraries" in Photos for non-commercial use. I thought it was a really cool photo and very appropriate for Learning 2.0. Uploading it was a bit of an adventure. I started by opening it in Flickr then tried the "Blog this" button, but Google rejected my attempts to configure my blog, so I then tried to upload it in Blogger. Again no success, so I saved a copy to my computer and uploaded it from there which was finally successful.

One thing I have learned not only from this course but in anything to do with computers and the internet, is that there is more than one way to skin a cat and that if one way doesn't work, just be patient and try something else. I usually get there in the end.

Week 3: Flickr

I already had a Flickr account (which I haven't used much) and I had previously loaded some of the photos that are not for commercial use from the site to play around with, so I knew how to tag, describe and organise photos, but hadn't done this with any of my own. So now I've uploaded some of my own photos to play around with. I realised they were all marked "public" so did a batch edit to change them all to "private" - must remember to do this in future.



Look forward to using this tool more often as I can see how it will be really useful for us to make library photos available, both our local history photos, but also photos of events held at the library.



I'm really enjoying the Library 2.0 program and look forward to the future "things" I will learn. The structure and prsentation of the program are great and it is suitable for both beginners and those who know a little about it already. There is always so much more to learn.

Beginnings

Well, that wasn't so hard. Once I sorted out the difference between my name, my blog's name and the url the rest was easy. Looking forward to learning more things