Week 5 of Learning 2.0 Social Networking Sites

I think it's a great idea for libraries to explore the use of social networking sites to reach new patrons and old patrons in a new way. I've seen the popularity of these sites on a personal level with my two teenage sons. They love MySpace and use it every day for multiple hours (if I let them). There use of email has declined as a result. I'm looking forward to setting up my own account and maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll be added as one of their friends.

Learning 2.0 Week 4

RSS feeds are great! I'm always looking for shortcuts to get at the info I want and this is a perfect tool for that. I've subscribed through Bloglines and found the easiest way to find what I wanted was by using their search tool. I added feeds for my favorite finance guru, Jane Bryant Quinn, KUOW's The Beat Book Reviews, Monster Crochet, KCLS Learning 2.0, and Darlene's Blog (a KCLS staff participant). I still need to add a couple library-themed blogs but want to take some time to investigate for quality. I think this will be helpful for professional developement.

Exploring Flickr Mashps

Hmmmm...very interesting. I played around with Montager (using the tag "cats" and "crochet"), with Flickr Sudoku, and Trading Card Makr. Very creative applications but I guess I'm more into usefulness and I wasn't really enticed to spend a lot of time there. Maybe some inspiration will come to me the more we explore 2.0.

Uploading from Flickr

I think this is such a sweet picture. I can almost feel the warmth and relaxation that this cat's experiencing. I have been pining away for a kitty since mine died a number of years ago. My husband is the holdout, though, not caring much for pets. I'm still working on him and hope he'll come around this spring.

I found this pic on Flickr and saved it to my desktop. Then it was easy to upload using Blogger's Add Image tool.

Learning 2.0 Week 2

I've completed the first 4 things and recorded them in the Progress Log. I've also registered my blog but I'm not in the participants list. Did I do something wrong or does it just take awhile?

Greetings!

Lifelong learning is very important to me. That's one of the reasons I love being a librarian--I learn something new every day. Big thank you to KCLS for providing the motivation and assistance to delve into the Web 2.0 arena and especially for making it fun!