Thing #35 Micro or mini blogging

Started looking at Twitter but think I must be missing something. 

Couldn't find the COB library Twitter account to look at. And what's it all got to do with my mobile phone?

Will have to try again later!

Thing #34 Using the Web for better health

Found Fitday a very interesting site. The only problem is that to really get anything out of it you need to be honest in what information you put in!

Also some of the choices of foods etc. are not exactly the right type - very hard to be really specific.

I thought the report on whether you are getting the right nutrients etc. could be quite useful.

Thing #33 Express yourself through online art

Found Mr Picassohead quite fun but now can't find my picture again to try and put it into my blog. Sent it to myself at work so I will try again from there.

Thing #32 Online file storage

Tried to use esnips but was doing this at home and could not upload any files as it needed Adobe flashplayer 9 and I could not get this to download (or do anything in fact)

Then tried box.net and was able to upload some photos and send them to myself at work, as I       didn't know anyone elses's email!

Tried to upload a recipe as well but am unable to view the actual text so may need furthet work on this.

Thing # 31 - Get organized with Plaxo

Found home page quite complicated, but using the calendar and task list was quite fun.
Could see various uses of sharing calendars among staff eg. between teams or job share partners so each knows where the others are up to in their various tasks, projects etc

Thing # 30 I'm in ur library

bunneh

Not really a cat but couldn't resist this gorgeous photo from Flickr's Lolcats.

I agree some Lolcats are quite funny, but on the whole really can't see a lot of use for them in the library. Also I find the 'baby' language quite irritating in many cases. Maybe I just had too much grounding in 'good' grammar!

My lolcat below

Thing #29 Scrapblog

Having tried at least 8 times to publish a page, and once found that even the copy I had saved had lost a lot of it's background detail so had to redo the whole thing, no I do not love this site!
After about 3 hours waiting endlessly for things to happen and still not having managed to publish anything I am giving up!!!

Thing #28 Well we're big rock singers

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originally uploaded by robynsmith23.

Very impressed with this cover - we thought the building was fairly impressive too!

Thing #27. Photobucket

Found this an extremely confusing and irritating site, made worse by the continually flashing pop-up windows that will not go away!
Managed to save a few images to an album, but they did not end up in the album I created for them.

Altogether very frustrating!

Thing #26 Yourminis

Found this quite fun but a bit overwhelming - where to start and stop.
Liked the idea of creating your own links to the Internet eg. chose "cover art' as a widget and then book covers, and was then able to open up the link from each book cover into the Amazon page with all the book's details.
Not totally sure when I would use this. Seems like creating a visual "Favourites' tab.

Thing #25 Letterpop

Quite fun creating a "newsletter" in letterpop, although mine is more like a tourist advertisement. Could be useful for all sorts of publicity on the library webpage, and I presume you could create and print off small posters for use in the library.

But did not find the editing screen easy to follow and the background colour I chose does not seem to have happened at all.

Now, though, cannot find how to link it to my blog. Any suggestions?

Thing #24

Managed to change a file type and the process seems very quick and easy. Unfortunately I really don't have much idea about different file types and all their uses, so at this point I am not sure what applications this would have in the library.
Obviously I need to find out more! Any suggestions?