Well!! This lesson was much better aligned with my personal interests.
RSS feeds ...what a great tool! I had a very interesting and enjoyable journey and it was easy to subscribe to various feeds. I could seriously imagine myself spending many hours following RSS feeds and not getting anything else done!!
I subscribed to five RSS feeds, being:
John Oxley Library Blog
Dictionary.com Word of the Day
The Courier Mail/Movies
ABC News/Top stories
Brisbane weather
Indeed, RSS feeds could be used as one's own newspaper. For a Reference Librarian it could be a very useful tool in order to keep up with the latest topics of interest to people in our community. Often library clients seek the assistance of a Reference Librarian when searching for more information about some topic in the news or a public debate happening thru the media outlets.
Friday, June 19
Social Networking
I did the "tour" of a number of sites. All them, of course, require one to create an account, so I only chose to sign in to twitter. I like the name ...
I viewed 2 videos:
"Social Networking in Plain English" and
"Twitter Search in Plain English".
In twitter I signed up to follow a friend, invited a friend to twitter and also signed up to follow John Donvan, ABC News Correspondent.
The Ning Group - Gaming Learning and Libraries seems to be a good site ...but alas, as I seem to have a very strong aversion to creating any social networking account, I could not go any further into this site, even though I would have liked to.
Yes, I agree with everyone, social networking sites can be very useful sites when searching for people, places, jobs, products, sharing info about common interests, etc., etc.
I viewed 2 videos:
"Social Networking in Plain English" and
"Twitter Search in Plain English".
In twitter I signed up to follow a friend, invited a friend to twitter and also signed up to follow John Donvan, ABC News Correspondent.
The Ning Group - Gaming Learning and Libraries seems to be a good site ...but alas, as I seem to have a very strong aversion to creating any social networking account, I could not go any further into this site, even though I would have liked to.
Yes, I agree with everyone, social networking sites can be very useful sites when searching for people, places, jobs, products, sharing info about common interests, etc., etc.
Long time no post!
I'm a bit behind with my Licence 2 Test Drive lessons. I blame it on the cold weather, it froze me into blogging inactivity.
Like most of my work colleagues I look for a window of opportunity within my work day to allow me to complete one of the lessons. I have yet to complete nos. 4 - 6.
Today I was reflecting on the question of whether blogging has any relevance to my life.
Yes, I can see this sort of technology will become an essential work skill in the future, given that it seems to be an effective and affordable form of communication for everyone to use.
No, I cannot see blogging as having a relevance in my own personal life.
To me, like to everyone else, my recreational and family time is precious and I choose to spend that spare time according to my own needs and values.
Would I choose to blog during my spare time instead of spending it with family, friends or gardening, or walking in the park? Never!
Like most of my work colleagues I look for a window of opportunity within my work day to allow me to complete one of the lessons. I have yet to complete nos. 4 - 6.
Today I was reflecting on the question of whether blogging has any relevance to my life.
Yes, I can see this sort of technology will become an essential work skill in the future, given that it seems to be an effective and affordable form of communication for everyone to use.
No, I cannot see blogging as having a relevance in my own personal life.
To me, like to everyone else, my recreational and family time is precious and I choose to spend that spare time according to my own needs and values.
Would I choose to blog during my spare time instead of spending it with family, friends or gardening, or walking in the park? Never!
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