Lesson #9

Basically, I found the Google RSS feed finding tool easy to use. I was looking for a feed on songwriting, and there were some that actually looked functional. I ended up subscribing to BloggingMuses.com because it addressed the most issues I find to be important.
Bloglines was the worst feed finder because it is still waiting for me to reply to a verification email that it never has sent (or ever will)! Agita!
For the library-related feeds, I really appreciated those that had an attached search engine. I looked for the feeds with the most hits for "library instruction." The Shifted Librarian had the most hits with eight, so I subscribed to it. (Librarian in Black was second.)

Lesson #8

Discovery Exercise #1:
With 50 million blogs in the U.S., RSS feeds seem vital to manage it all.

Discovery Exercise #2:
I subscribed to Google Reader because I did not want to wait for a verification email from Bloglines (which has yet to arrive).

Discovery Exercise #3:
I subscribed to these five:
Chronicle.com - Today... (1)
CNN.com - Politics (4)
EKU Library Learning 2.0 (8)
Huffington Post Full ...
NYT > Opinion (10)

Questions:
What do you like about RSS and newsreaders?
They are an excellent gathering tool for those who explore multiple blogs.

How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life?
For example, as the political season has already begun, these readers make it much easier to keep up with what the candidates are doing.

How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
One way librarians can use RSS is simply to keep professionally up-to-date.

Lesson #7

My creation
Originally uploaded by qbfianchetto

Here is a trading card that I produced using Trading Card Maker.

Library Photos

Here are a few library photos.

Flickr (Week Three) Addenda

BTW, Robert "Billy Ward" Williams was a member of and songwriter for The Dominoes.
He co-wrote "Sixty-Minute Man" which, according to Wikipedia, reached #17 in the US Billboard pop charts, and #1 in the US Billboard R&B charts for 14 weeks in 1951.
The song was also included in the Bull Durham soundtrack.

Flickr (Week Three)

This photo was taken in the "early- to mid-1950s" of the uploaders uncle, Robert "Billy Ward" Williams. To quote Williams' nephew, "Knowing the size of my uncle's ego I am sure he felt he was the star in this photograph." Who is guy on the right, anyway?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdinphoenix/2257650/

Lesson #5 Addenda

Observation: It is much easier to find specific people in Facebook than it is in MySpace. In my opinion, MySpace really needs to do something about their incredibly limited search engine.

Lesson #5

Most of my colleagues seem to prefer Facebook due to its somewhat older age-orientation, and its privacy settings. I'm happy to have set up this account, and hopefully, I will continue to use it in a professionally-oriented manner in the future. Like MySpace, which may target undergraduates of traditional age, libraries can employ Facebook to reach older students, as well as graduate students, and younger (if not older) faculty.
As a side note, I must say that during registration the first couple of "read the characters in the box" were completely undecipherable. Fortunately, the third time was a charm.
Cheers!

Lesson #4

I viewed the video, and I looked at the MySpace pages from the six libraries listed. I decided to comment on the latter.
1. Generally speaking, MySpace.com is a fun, socially-oriented site, but it certainly couldn't hurt for libraries to have a presence there. Still, a library's page must look interesting. A dull page is a turn-off to potential friends.
2. The libraries that put the Meebo widgit on their MySpace pages were cleverly linking their patron/friends directly to their services. In addition, a(n) (open) link to the OPAC, and a large link to the libraries' home page might also be in order on any library's MySpace page. A library's MySpace page can be fun, and still provide a direct route to people, services, and resources.

Blog Creation

Wow! Blog creation was virtually painless.
My blog's URL is:
http://kevin-l-jones.blogspot.com/

Cheers!