reading makes me happy!

Recent read: The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian. Fabulous book! Recommended for anyone feeling misaligned with the their world. It's a story of surviving through illness, poverty & tragedy with humor and passion for life. Love, love, love! Will be put on my list of all time favorites.

Holiday Muse

It's the Holiday season. And Santa will soon be on his way here. I wish Santa would bring me a new car, but I highly doubt that will happen. So soon my squeaky car will head off to the shop for a makeover.
So...I am grateful for...this year...our whole family will be together for Christmas.! I am holding my breath ...nothing goes wrong...no illnesses...no blizzards...or any other catastrophies. For this I will be thankful. Please, please, Santa! Let my wish come true.

Feeds

Thank you, thank you , thank you NE Learns 2.0. I finally get the RSS feeds thing. And guess what? I love it! Wish you all could see me dancing!!!

Thing# 28 - Google Reader. I really need to find the time to explore all the bells and whistles of Google Reader especially since I am now following a number of blogs. This feature is a great timesaving device. But I still need to become more familiar with how this all works. Guess I said that already, huh? Ok, thats where the NE Learns 2.0 challenge steps in! So my challenge will be to continue to learn about RSS feeds and their ability to manage blogs, news, etc. Hopefully in time I will become an expert!!!

I did subscribe to a few of the blogs I read faithfully and signed up for feeds that interest me. And, also, followed blogs from the Particpants list. In the future I will weed out some of the ones that I do not follow. Mobile Google Reader sounds like a wonderful idea for my phone.

On a note about last month's challenge, Facebook. our Library Board was really impressed that our Library now has a Facebook page and Twitters, too!

Library Facebook page

Our NE Learns 2.0 challenge this month was to become familiar with the social networking site, Facebook. I already had a personal Facebook account to connect with family and friends. My family are especially very active Facebook users. We have a fun time sharing everyday events, photos, videos, taking quizzes, and using applications. I decided to set up an account for the Library, but learned that a "person" sets up an account and then creates a page for your business, organization, etc. Our library now has a Facebook page that I administrate. Photos are posted and I will continue to update. Readers of this blog may link to our Library's page. Facebook will assist us in connecting with the public by advertising our events, "hot" new books, and posting updates about what all is going on with the the library. We also joined Twitter to post library happenings. Thanks to NE Learns for motivating me in setting up these accounts to " get social".

Facebooking

I wanted to set up a Facebook page for the Library. Well, to make a long story short, I wrongly set up a personal page. I already have one to connect with family and friends. So, that account is now deactivated, but facebook is still confused and won't let me set up an account associated with the library's email address. I'll wait a day and try to set up an account for an organization.
Hopefully, then, our Library will be on Facebook.

Thing #25-assignment 3

I'm loving Google maps ever more! I created a "My Map", claimed our library, and I'm working towards imbedding a map on our website. I will continue to "play around" with these tools in the future.
The street view feature is most fascinating. I especially can see our young patrons using this tool to view places and countries around the world. We have patrons in our library who use maps for driving directions and have asked for help. This assignment will allow me to further assist our patrons.
Besides the mapping features, Google maps is also a great marketing tool. Our town is small but creating maps with markers of the interesting facts, photos, and businesses in Springfield and the surrounding area enhances our presence in the community.