Spring is perfect time to finish Web 2.0

I've been busy exploring all the offerings of the crazy internet stuff.

There is so much to learn and some many details to attend to with each new product. I think I will request an admin assistant to help me organize and maintain this electronic life. LOL

Goodreads has a life of its own. Who has time to read for updating lists of books to read? Although I do enjoy reading what others have said about books, I'll take the good with the bad. The tagging of books is handy for storytime planning. I no longer have to photocopy covers of books I', thinking aobut using for future reference. They are right there on my virtual bookshelf or a friend's bookshelf.

I know this will be hard to believe, but I am not a fan of Facebook. I feel very exposed knowing that friends of my friends can follow my pages or that photos go up and might travel around the world. Perhaps I haven't spent enough time with it to truly see the benefits. I do know it is easy to get sucked into doing the test, lists, tags, fans etc. It's hard to believe this is work. and I don't spend much time on the computer when I am at home so this is one facet of 2.o that I porbably will not continue after I complete this training.

Twittering is the rage now. I check on the coworkers I'm following and get branch news/share what is going on with me. There are a few twitterers I follow for personal interest. The late breaking/gossipy tidbits I get haven't been so important that I feel rewarded for logging on frequently.

Flickr has been the best thing since sliced bread! I have encouraged other family memebers to sign up and link. Now we share photos online instead of copying photos and handing them out or mailing to each other. This is good for the environment and good for my unorganized photo boxes. It is so much easier to organize a file on line. Tagging makes it easy to find a special photo. I'm glad this was included in our training.