Photosharing

As usual, the site are pretty easy to register for and to participate on, but the time it takes to check them all out thoroughly is formidable! I wondered how Flickr operated for some time and now I know. I don't see it as useful for my archives, although it's good to know about for other things. I have used snapfish and shutterfly with family and friends and they seem similar. I did not get into creating albums or galleries, but would like to do so as time permits.

Week Four:Twitter and URL Shorteners

After so many weeks away from this, I'm rushing again to catch up, hoping the course won't be finished before I get to try out all the various exercises. I am daily convinced of the importance of having a Facebook page for my archives, but twittering....? It's hard to appreciate, especially with the attachements of so much else on individual tweets. I suppose it's an art form, reducing what you want to say to 140 characters, but doesn't appeal to me.
But truly, I do appreciate the chance to try to experiment around with these things, and would like to be able to follow up on every one of the links for more resources. Will this site be gone after the 12th week?

Week Three continued

Every time I try to enter the blog to post, seems like a new experience! I decided to read through everyone's postings to see if others may be having similar experiences and find it to be so. So far I appreciate learing about these Things and in a few cases can see where it may help in outreach for our collections in gaining visibility, but it is taking a lot longer to learn about than I had hoped. More questions about Weeks one and two, but as for this week: I have had some experience with FaceBook and LinkedIn, none of it very satisfying. Perhaps the Ning will be, as I've heard positive things about it. One participant echoed my concern about all the new accounts and passwords to keep track of, and the difficulty in unsubscribing once the course is over, so I'll be interested in responses to this. I am convinced that knowing about these tools is a good Thing.

Week Three

While I've created accounts for and used Slideshare, Meebo and looked at Web 2.0 presentations on Slideshare, and even done some social networking, it's been taking awhile to figure out how to post messages on my own blog! If this is it, I'll have more to say!

Week One late posting

Thanks to Amy for walking me through a few things, (and having a meebo chat with me) I can now report the Blogs I'm subscribed to besides "23 things for archivists": They include "SAA RAO News" and "Lone Arrangers- Working Together while working alone." The Blogs that most appealed to me are those Kate labels "archivist content blogs" some initiated by individuals. I suscribed to"Abner Jackson Journal" initially, then unsubscribed and subscribed to "From the Page--Julia Brumfield's diaries" a not-exactly-blog where subscribers apparently take turns at transcribing handwritten pages of a diary. In both my archives and in my independent research project this is of interest. I see that many of these blogs do not have very frequent visitors or updates, so I'm guessing some of the posts may not come until after the course is finished....
On my continuing difficulties in negotiating around on these sites: it wasn't clear to me that I access my blog for posting by going through google reader.

January 26th

Easy enough! Great directions for establishing a blog.