Photo Sharing....I'm ready for my close-up...

What I don't know about photo-sharing would fill many many albums, and after this week's assignment I see even more that confuses me.... I feel this way after every lesson, as if I've learned just enough to be really really bewildered!....I think these sessions are good in that we can choose to get more involved in these activities, later, after the initial overview...but it's almost too much information for me, and I'm sure our library community feels the same way, depending on their age, education and the amount of time available to learn.....but compiling pictures is a wonderful activity that everyone can relate to, so I'm hoping to get more instruction in this area--it's so easy,
just point and click!

To podcast or not to podcast......

Nothing in this week's activity really grabbed me, even my tech savvy daughter said it probably wasn't something I needed to know(she's my drill instructor, training-wise!)...having said that, I did appreciate the NPR and other links, very helpful and informative...The Nashville Public Library one was especially impressive, any chance of HCPL moving up to something like that before I retire??!

Are people who twitter called twits????

I must confess I do like to tweet with my kids, one who lives in L.A. and the other in Petersburg, soon to be in Harrisonburg....it's a fast way to keep up with them and make sure they're OK if they don't have time to call or write...just seeing their mini messages assures me that they're fine....I also follow a psychic that my niece has introduced me to, but he says really goofy stuff, like, "having orange juice for breakfast and enjoying the beautiful day"...I want him to talk about how many of the dead he's tweeted, but so far no messages from beyond the grave....sigh...
I'm not sure how helpful Twitter is for the library, don't know if people would respond to messages from the circulation department:"I have nothing to do right now because nobody's returning their overdue books..."

The RSS connection...or not!

I THINK I'm hooked into the feed reader or reader feed, or whatev....the terminology continues to boggle my mind, or in this case bloggle my mind??? I like having all of this info at my fingertips, but there's more than enough about some subjects, and it's hard to filter it all down to what I really want to read more of...I fear that I and some of my generation(the children of the 60's, and you know who you are!) are still trapped in a past life that had only 3 TV channels, a reliance on AM radio for late-breaking news, and letters and phone calls instead of email and Twitter, for keeping up with friends and family and our very small world...I will try to open up my mind to RSS, and I think the library system can help patrons like me who are still looking for information in the all the old familiar places(like the RTD hard copy, TV Guide, and Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature....well, maybe not that far back in time!)
Peace out!!