Thing 22: Continuing to Blog

I have learned a lot with 23 Things and many aspects I will continue to use throughout my day to day life. Like Google Reader which has me linked to my local paper, fun blogs, interesting librarian blogs, and other news related information. I may continue my Nic23 blog however, I feel like I will start to blog more on Facebook and MySpace instead now that I feel more comfortable with it. I will also be using Flickr more and try to store all my pictures on my page. So, in conclusion there is a lot that I am taking away from 23 Things and a lot that I will continue to use.

Thing 20: MySpace and Facebook

I found thing 20 to be really easy mainly because I already have a MySpace and Facebook account. I first created a MySpace page just for the fun of it one day but I don't really use it that much. In fact, I don't really know of anyone that is on MySpace and sad as it is I don’t have any friends. I then created a Facebook account; mainly because my friend forced me to and again I didn't use it that much until recently. Facebook is a great way to keep in track with friends; by seeing what they are doing and reading their wall. MySpace I think is the better social network for a library to use because it has become really popular with teenagers and that is all I see them using in the library. Also, it is really easy to showcase pictures, books, music, and etc then on Facebook. Finally, I find MySpace less confusing to maneuver then Facebook. So, MySpace is the social network I would choose for a library to use; but for individual use I find Facebook to be the better social network.

Thing 8.2: Share

Thing 8 was actually rather fun. I choose to use Picture Trail in order to organize your pictures into what is called Flicks. At first I thought you had to upload pictures right away from your desktop in order to use the slide show, but when I went to use the slide show I found that you could upload your pictures from Myspace or Flickr. However, I wasn't able to get in connect with Myspace were all my pictures were located so I was happy I had downloaded some onto the desktop which I had uploaded onto Picture Trail. The pictures that I choose to use were the one that I took when I went to Berlin, Germany. The trip was a lot of fun and I hope you have fun watching my slide show. I also briefly looked at some of the other sharing activities like Thumbstacks and Zoho where you can make your own slide show which with the versatility of then having this slide show be accessible for all computers would have really helped when I was in school and making power point presentations and hoping that where I had saved it would then upload onto this new computer. It was all very stressful. Also, these slide show creators can be useful for when a person is teaching a class especially if it is a web conference. So, these programs that share are interesting but time consuming.