Fun with Flickr

Here I am for my second post, and it was not an easy exercise, I can tell you. I have two email addresses registered with Google, and of course I put the wrong one in, so I was unable to get to my blog (as a blogger). I could find it through the URL, but unable to access it without the correct user name.

It has been fun. Including this Blog I contribute to two others and they all work just that little bit differently. I can be my own worst enemy though, as I am bad for not reading what's in front of me when on the net. Taking in all the instructions does help ... so here I am!

Week three has been fun. Flickr is a great site for photos. I do have an account already and have posted photos of my twin grand sons. I have many relatives in Canada so it is a great way of giving them access to them. Did a search on my home town and found over 6oo photos available for viewing. This is pretty good considering I come from a very small, generally unknown fishing village. The world really is a smaller place.

Above is one of the nicer photos I found. I'm a sucker for sunrises and sunsets. Have a look at some others from Beautiful British Columbia.

It seems easy enough to load pictures. But I was puzzled with loading from my computer. In other blogs I have to type in where I wanted to retrieve the photo from, but Blogger seems to know that already. I couldn't get my cursor to click into the search box so I just clicked 'browse' and it took me straight to 'my pictures'. My other blogs require more direction.

So the learning continues ... what will next week bring!?

My First Rant

Well, I'm a little late getting to this Blog, but I'm sure everyone will understand as I've been on holidays (far from any computers) and have just got started. Looks as though it will be fun. I am not unfamiliar with Blogs as I have been blogging for awhile now, but there is always more to learn, and the advantages for libraries with Web 2.0 has been clear to me ever since I started.

So far, I'm impressed with the course and have obediently followed all the steps in week one, knowing I am already behind and could possibly skip a few of them. I find it exciting to think about getting libraries interactive on the web, so that users can become part of our community through their computers.

This said, it was a little disappointing going to the example links for Library Blogs and finding few or no comments on most of the posts. We have a big job ahead of us! The on-line users need to know that libraries are out there with Web 2.0 at their disposal.

I won't rant any further ... Save it for another post.