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#4 Last one?

Wow, I keep playing around in Blogger and liking it. Exploring what areas I can customize, I decided to add two RSS feeds to the foot of my blog, including one by kt horning, current ALSC President. So easy! I googled "ala rss feed" and got a page full at http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=News&template=/cfapps/xml/pr_inst.html

I wonder what tools I'll use in the end. What will be relevant to my life. I would like a combination blog and photo sharing site for communicating with family. Also a document storage site. Can I do all this with a wiki?


I want to organize/tag all my photos, have easy batch uploads, the ability to order prints, and privacy. I want privacy and large file storage for documents. Then the aforesaid password management.

To be continued....

#4 Continued

More to think about. Standardizing post titles, fonts, etc. Changed these titles from Week 1 to #1 etc., took out bold text, removed my name from posts. They're all from me, after all.

#4 Continued - Frustrations

I'm already frustrated by having so many durn usernames and passwords that I can hardly keep up, and this program requires many new ones.

Perhaps there is a tool to help with this? In my google account? Not secure enough? If there is a tool, include this in the BPL 2.0 project?

#4 - Register on 43 Things; isolate a blog post link

1) Since I'm not a staff member of PMCLC, I can't use their tracking system for Library 2.0. Instead, I've registered on 43 Things.com to track my progress there.

I wanted to copy Helen Blowers 43 Things.com list of 23 Things, but couldn't quickly find it using the search tool within 43 things. It worked best to Google "blowers 23 things" or just go to the URL I know works http://www.43things.com/person/hblowers.

Also had trouble finding a way to add more things to my list. Finally found it by clicking the green "Edit your account" button and then "Add 43 Things to Your Site." Is there a way to make this a little easier for our staff if we use 43Things.com for tracking progress?

2) Learned how to isolate a single blog post's url, called the "permanent link"

3) (extra credit) I also added a new element to Customize my blog - a picture over the right hand column.

#3 - Adding posts to my blog

Since this blog is about education at BPL and the BPL 2.0 project, I've added a picture of a technology related class at the library. This WYSIWYG is so easy to use!

#2 - 7 1/2 Habits

From the exercise for Week 2, I found the EASIEST of the 7 1/2 Habits to be "Accept responsibility for your own learning" and the HARDEST to be "Play"