Thing 28

I am starting this again. I thought I had posted this but when I checked later I hadn't. I really think I wasn't supposed to do thing #28. So here is part of what I wrote yesterday and part from today.I think I am done with this assignment. I am not done with google reader. Thanks to Allana I can say that the assignment is done. She and I have talked about my problems with the send to part of my account. I totally understand how it is supposed to work but it seems it isn't going to. BREAK THROUGH!!! I tried to send something to Facebook instead of to blogger. It worked!!!!!! I will definately use google reader. I like it way better than Bloglines. One thing I like better is the search thing so that I can look for sites that I know are there and not have to do the export thing like in Bloglines. Also Google really keeps track of sign up better that they do because Google knew that I had an account that I didn't remember. Bloglines has not switched my account to the different account since the first 2.0 class was done. Each time I went there it said that my account was not active. They had let the sites update but still gave me the message. So yes I like Google better. Thanks again Allana.

Google reader

I have figured out that I can't do this assignment. I am happy to have my blog reader be something other than bloglines but because I have to seperate google accounts one for google reader and one for blogger I can't make it work to send something from one to the other. When I hit send to Blogger it won't let me sign in. I tried last week and now this week too. I tried to just copy the link for the item I would like to send. But since that is not the assignment it won't work. I guess that means that although I will continue to use google reader I won't get the credits for this thing. It is beginning to be a real waste of my time to try to get the credits.

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Google reader

I am working on this. But since I don't blog very often I was having login problems. I also had gotten a google account that I didn't remember until after I was told by them that I already had an account and had to go through the process of changing my password. Then I had never done the change on blogger to make it to the new login. I just always used the sign in from when I first signed up. So when I went to send something from google to blogger it kept wanting me to sign in and I couldn't remember what I was supposed to put in. Also I usually get to blogger from the Nebraska 2.0 site and go to participants. Anyway I will try again soon since I figured out some of what I was doing wrong. Some days it doesn't really pay to try something new. Once I get into using google reader I think I will like it better than bloglines.

CE credits

I am wondering why I didn't get credit for the thing about facebook. I had it done before the end of the month and I checked the link to get to the post. It worked and still I didn't get the credit. Oh well I guess I will try this months and if I don't get credit for that one I will probably quit the class. I don't get to really use much of what I learn anyway. I could use more of it but the people I work with think that it is a waste of time.

August Thing #27

This months thing is Facebook. I love facebook!!! It is a fantastic way to keep up with my family!!!!!!!! Yesterday I found out I had a new cousin and usually I wouldn't have found that out until the weekend when I talked to my mom. I also found out through Facebook that our Library is getting new computers from the Gates Foundation. I found that out through the Nebraska Library Commission. Since we really should learn something for this class I tried to put the Twitter application on my Facebook page. I haven't figured out if it works very well yet but I will keep working on it. Also this month I actually used my option on our Library page. I am able to add things on the Library's Facebook page but had never tried that until this month. It worked!!! I asked for donations that I didn't get, but still it worked to post it so that was worth something!I check Facebook at least once a day usually more than that.I think that Facebook should have the rep for the fastest growing because of the things I said it is a great way to get and keep people from all parts of the country and the world together. It would be nice if more people would follw the libray page but I am sure that will come with time.

Thing 25

Well I didn't get to do this one. With vacations and a new director at work I have been too busy and tired to do anything extra. I did try part of this one and still would like to play with Google Earth. Maybe later. Hopefully I get to do the next thing. I REALLY do like that we can miss some of these. Otherwise I would have done it in a really fast sloppy way just to be done.

Thing 24

This is so fun and like one person said in a comment it is hard to stay on task. I didn't have any luck with finding our library. I know that we are on there because we put things there. But people aren't catching on yet. I did get more tweets to follow and more bloglines things. I have a hard time keeping the RSS things relating to the library. i finally gave up on that and went with the idea that as a librarian I should have a well rounded knowledge of what is going on in the world. In our library. as in most, each of us has certain things that we know more about. I can help that by keeping informed on various topics. Having RSS feeds and twitter tweets is helping me to do this. I am still getting used to it and since I can't do it at work my time is definitely limited. I wish it wasn't because I could spend lots of time reading all the info. As for the part of the assignment where we are to comment to someone. I did that but not to a library related tweet. It takes lots of time and practice to get the hang of it. Since I have gotten the hang of facebook I sure twitter is just a matter of time.