Week 3 - SOCIAL & PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING
Thank goodness for Week 4 "catch-up" time; I needed it! I have a Facebook account but seldom use it. I have 4 email accounts which keep me too busy to use social networks--once again, my lament about choosing not to have a home computer. I regularly check my work email, and try to keep personal friends from using it. I have 2 yahoo emails, one of which I established just to head off a friend who seems to work fulltime sending comments, pictures, vitriolic political statements, etc. etc.--over 600 items the last time I checked. Now I also have a gmail account for the RSS feeds!!I visited ALA, MySpace and Ning and found them all interesting, but since the MySpace and Ning sites are more social, I will probably use ALA more than those for facts, library information, tips, etc. which have more to do with my library position.
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Week 2 - RSS
This was fun. I had often thought about connecting with RSS feeds, but then put it off until I "had more time." I subscribed to BBC and NPR news thinking to start slowly and also keep up-to-date on what's going on around the world with brief subject lines which I could pursue as I was interested! Wow! I found that brief does not do it as since I did not check the site daily, I had over 300 hits when I finally logged on. I'll probably say this in every blog, but choosing not to have a home computer sometimes limits what I would really like to do!!

Grazings

Just getting started. Hopefully successfully. This will be an interesting way to learn new stuff!