Mapping

She's found another one, it's called MapKit you can add photos, videos and places, I suppose if you do a road trip you could mark it on a map and up load it to you blog, I will have to investigate it further

I've been playing

I have added some new stuff to my page, thanks to a couple of feeds I have been reading so thanks to Bill Drew Creator of Ning (Library 2.0) a social network. While reading his blog I saw the Shelfari which I thought looked interesting and decided to have a go. You can see the results under my favourite authors. My other new thing is a Cloud Cluster and again this came via Marylaine Block and her list of new things. It was very easy to create and it can be changed at any time. You are only limited by the query you make. I may not have a lot to say but I do like finding new things to play with.

update

I finally logged in to my account at ZoomClouds, my fault I put in the wrong user, as you can see I have redesigned it. I found ZoomClouds very easy to work with. I also changed my widget and gave it the name Silly stuff when I was redesigning it I lost the widget and it took me about a half hour to work out how to get it back which I did, it’s all a learning experience doing these things I am quite proud of my self. Well this it for now I am very tired and have to get up for work more next time.

CLOUDS

Today I learnt something new, well for me it is. I learnt how to make a cloud on my blog. I did a lot of surfing to learn about ‘clouds’ and how they work and how to put one on one’s blog. Some of the talk was very technical, I am not up to par with html and javascript I understand some but I am very cautious when it come to making changes. Through the many blogs I look at the one that suited me was ZoomClouds, I found this through http://librarycloud.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Blogger
Once I had signed in I created a cloud and they did the rest but I will have to say I am having trouble logging back in, I have emailed them asking why? I will get back to that when I hear from them

Ideas to get library staff involved in Library 2.0

Getting buy-in from management and staff for Library 2.0 ideas”.
http://librariesinteract.info/author/sirexkat/
Came across in one of the feeds I receive, I thought I would put forward my idea.
Why not create a common user name and password, give it to all staff so they can add a few comments if they so feel inclined. Some staff may feel intimidated about creating a blog, some may never use it again, so if there was a common one they could all use it and then they might feel more inclined to make contributions they may even decide they like the idea and create their own blog later.

I like this

Thanks to Ellyssa from Library 2.0 I have created a widget via Box.net widget . As you can see I have already added a couple of files of cause they are only test doc. Ellyssa has uploaded powerpoint files so possibilities are endless.
I will try and be inventive with my uploads.

Road Trip

I'm sitting here and wondering what can I write about, do I need to write something everyday or just once a week or monthly. I think it is good for the soul if you can write something every day it doesn’t have to be important, it could as simple as hello world or today I had good day, or work was **** today perhaps tomorrow will be better.


The other day I went on a road trip, a friend ask me to join her on a day out and I thought this will be nice and it was overall, only she forgot to mentioned the day would be starting at 8.15am.

Now for someone who has been on holidays for the last two week and has had the luxury of sleeping past 10am it was a bit a shock having to get up at 6am to meet at 7am to reach the start destination by 8.15am. I don’t know about anyone else, but knowing you have to wake up at a certain time you end up waking several times during the night because you are worried about over sleeping.

So back the road trip as we both work in a Library this sounded interesting. There was trip arranged for anyone interested to attend several presentation, these included a talk by an author of children’s books on how her book was created, the process involved in getting the book published from the first idea to the finished product, from there to the selling of the book through booksellers. We also invited to view several rare children’s books held at the Melbourne University, Baillieu Library.

The afternoon found us traveling out to Dromkeen, (the Dromkeen Collection Art Gallery, holds a priceless exhibition of original artwork and manuscripts of Australian children's literature).

Getting there was an experience, my friend and I were sitting in the front seats and could see the driver, now I don’t know if he was new or it was just the way he drove but he continually moved the steering wheel left to right just slightly mind you but it was enough to make us feel like we were on a boat, one other passenger commented later that if the bus trip had been any long she have been sick. I have been on many bus trips in my life and have never come across such a rough ride, but in the end it was worth it because Dromkeen is a beautiful place to visit.

The trip home was a bit smoother perhaps he had settled down by then. It was a long day and that night I slept like a baby.

An update

I went back to Google docs & spreadsheets created a word doc with words and tried to upload to this blog, try as I might, it would not go through ,which is very frustrating as I had uploaded the word doc called 'this is a test'. But I am not going to give up, I am going to try again only because I like things to work they way are suppose too.

p.s. - to my mentor, apologies if I used the wrong spelling of the word to

Something new

I have just posted a word document using Google docs and spreadsheets, the document is called "this is a test" it took awhile to come through so now I will try to send a word document with words to see what it will look like.

THIS IS A TEST

Getting there

As you can see I am slowly getting there, I have added a couple of items on the side

Never too old

An interesting thing happened on the way to turning 40 a change of life was forced on me and with that change I drifted into the technology world. Computers became my passion, well not computers per say I couldn't build one if I tried, I wouldn't know where to begin but as to the programs used on computers I would have to say I'm not to bad, you could even say I'm pretty good actually. As computer technology moved forward I made sure I moved with it, most of the time through self teaching. That's the reason for this, my first blog, I've conquered the Internet, email and even RSS feeds. I have read many blogs and decided to try it out for myself.

I do have one thing to confess though, I have never taken a fancy to Ipods or MP3 players, I don't think there is anything wrong with them, I know how they work this is via my children, I guess you have to a music lover to appreciated them, I mean I like music but I am not one sit and listen to music for hours on end.

Now give me an audio book to listen to in the car and I'm a happy chappy

ps hey mentor what do you think

boney girl