Module #13 Social Bookmarking

This module was pretty interesting to me. I had heard of social bookmarking before but never really knew what it was exactly. After I read about it I found that I do this all the time! With Facebook and Twitter I share news stories, website, links to different things that I find interesting that I feel some of my fellow friends and followers may like. One site that has come to mind as a new kind of social bookmarking site is Pinterest. People can click on pictures of so many different things and when they do they are taken to the original website or page that it came from. I am very into Pinterest at the moment so I guess I am into social bookmarking too!! I have linked 5 news stories and sites on my Delicious account and also a few below.

http://socialmediatoday.com/

 http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/social-media.htm

Online Surveys

I loved this module. I have always liked doing surveys myself just for fun. They are a good way to pass the time, or to distract you when you are supposed to be doing something else more important, haha. I have also used surveys in work and classes when others need to get information for a project or event. I had never made a survey myself before doing it for this module so it was fun. I asked really random and general question as to not offend anyone! Hope you all get a chance to take the survey!


http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LCBSMHB

Image Generators

I have heard about image generators but had never really used them until I just did the Module for them. I looked at all of the ones listed and explored what they all had to offer. I think this is a great resource to have especially for students, college student in particular. It allows you to add flare to presentations and also allows you to show off your personality through pictures and what not. I think I will be using some of these image generators for fun or I may possibly use it in the future when I go back for my next degree. Here are a couple links to things I created or found while playing around on the linked sites.

"http://cdn-img1.imagechef.com/w/111222/samp2baa576b8056c5ff.jpg"

http://cdn-img1.imagechef.com/w/111222/16425cdb7339d4c1.gif

http://cdn-img1.imagechef.com/w/111222/anm8af94b473e82b084.gif

YouTubing!!

I have had an account on YouTube since highschool. I don't post videos but I subscribe to certain channels and watch them on a daily basis. Some of them are like my tv shows, I watch them on a daily or weekly basis. I have linked a video related to "library" in this blog down below. I love YouTube and have really gotten into it in recent years.

http://youtu.be/7wq3Rlep2Ng


Happy YouTubing!!

GoodReads and Library Thing

I am so surprised that I had never heard about or seen these sites before. I feel like I am going to be addicted to them now. I think I had heard people talk about something like these before but never really put two and two together until I had to do this.

I searched through both sites and I think I prefer Good Read more than library thing but they both are great. I looked at the suggestions on Good Read and found 5 books that I think look and sound like books that I would read.

1. Water For Elephants - heard great things about it and it was on the suggestion list. I think it's fate!
2. Eat, Pray, Love - again have heard about it and I have checked it out twice and have never got around to reading it!
3. Betty White: If You Ask Me - Its Betty White and I have every season of Golden Girls on DVD..need. I say more.
4. A Million Little Pieces
5. Cash The Biography - Love country music and Johnny Cash!

Facebook Module

I just completed the Facebook module for 23 things. I did the first exercise since I already have a personal facebook account. I decided to search for a library in Las Vegas, Nevada because I have always wanted to live there. I liked the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District Page. It was well put together, had the most people who "liked" them of the library pages in Las Vegas I saw and was overall a good page.

I think facebook is a good thing for people to have because it lets you connect with people you may not see as much as you would like. It can also connect you with people you have lost touch with over the years such as family who are out of state, old classmates or old friends who have drifted away. I have found people on facebook and reconnected with people on facebook and think it is great thing,

I think it is a positive thing for libraries to have facebook pages so people can see what is going on with the library. Some people don't come into the library often, but still want to know what events are happening and having a facebook page can help them keep up to date on events that may be happening. One bad thing about it is that if someone likes the page they may be bombarded with updates from the library if the person running the page is too much into it. If they are posting an update every hour it can get annoying.

Picnik Module

I just completed the picnic module. I found it to be pretty neat. I have seen many people on facebook use this site but I have never personally used it. I think its something that would be neat to use for maybe scrapbooks or on facebook and twitter like many people do today.

I think I would use this at some point. Maybe for a Christmas Card in the future or something along those lines. This wasn't my favorite module of the ones we have done, but that is probably because I am not so much a picture person. I think if you are into photography or pictures then this would be a great site for you to learn to use and access a great deal.

Twitter Expericene

This is probably my favorite module. I have been on Twitter since 2009 and I love it. I feel like it is the most legitimate way to connect with people all over including celebrities. Yes, I know that may sound weird but they have a way of verifying celebrities so you know that it is the real deal, which I like (yes I do follow celebrities and tweet with them :) ). I just like being able to see what others are doing without the hassle of dealing with the things like you do on Facebook such as spam or game requests.

Here is my existing twitter name: Kayla_Diane23

Flickr Experience/Photo

I have browsed around flickr before doing the module today. I was used to it but I have used photobucket more in the past. I looked around on flickr and put Lafayette, Indiana in the search bar and found a really neat black and white picture of downtown. I think it really shows the essence of downtown Lafayette.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/isphotographic/4098579402/

thanks to Isophotographic for the photo

RSS Feeds Module--September 18

I just finished doing the RSS feeds module. I had heard of these before and had always so saw the links at the bottom of most sites but never really knew what they were or what RSS stood for. I think it is a very helpful and useful thing to use. Instead of having to go to the site every single day to look up what you want you can have it right in your email and look at everything in one place. This is definitely something I will be using on my own in the future.

The Start of 23 Things

So this is my first ever blog post. This whole 23 things project seems like it will be pretty fun. There are a lot of programs we are going over I haven't used such as blogger so it will be interesting to see how this goes. I am pretty computer savvy so I don't think I will have much trouble with these 23 things.