Nearing the end

Thanks for your comments Emma. It gave me the will to continue but I have still not completed last week's task as I did not know how to. I will try to complete it before the end.

I followed this week's instructions and opened my Flicker account and uploaded a photo for all to see and shared it with the 23 Things group. Also viewed some interesting photos that other members have shared. I did the advanced search and found a photo to download to save to my computer but I got a little lost with getting the photo onto my blog as it didn't save properly on my computer (it is quite old). I will try to do this again on my computer at work. I shared a funny video clip with cats up to all sorts of things from YouTube but it came as a separate post. I didn't know if this was supposed to happen. But hey ho.

Enjoyed doing this week's things. It was fun. When you see a picture here of some bunnies you will know I overcome this week's obstacle!

Funny Cats

The flow is slowing

Set up a diigo account and got the e-mail as I didn't use my Warwick e-mail. The rest of the instructions did not work for me. I started on my iPad and thought this was why I couldn't see what was on the instructions so I transferred to my computer but still no joy. Are the instructions not written for non technical people like me or am I just the only one struggling? Not just this week have I found the instructions quite difficult to follow. I read about EndNote web and Zotero. Roll on next week and see if this is any better, if not I can see me losing interest and calling it a day!

Reflection

Week 5 already. I have slowly worked my way through the things that have been set and I have learned lots. It is good to know about and have a go at using these applications even if in the future you don't carry on with them. The thing I like the most is my igoogle page. I look at it almost every day. I have things that are of interest to me and one of those is a countdown to an important milestone in my life! I must admit i am not technically minded and i have not found some of the things easy to get to grips with and the scome instructions were not the idiot's guide i would have liked. I have registered to be added to a day in the library but not done anything about that yet. I set up a meeting on doodle but missed it!! A colleague has told me i could have linked it to outlook and then i would have had a reminder so will repeat the process and see if it works. I really have no idea how all this is going to fit into my work, also I don't know how I will get on with the future things as the seem to be a bit more technical. I will plod on and see how I go. Watch this space.

Increasing the flow to catch up

I haven just joined twitter and completed the 'things to do' that were attached to this week. As well as following a couple of colleagues I decided to follow a crime writer and found his tweets very interesting! Only thing that I didn't do was set up some privacy options as I created the account on an app downloaded to my iPad and the screen was different to the instructions shown. Found the web version better until i got to know what i was doing. Only thing is that I can now see all the tweets posted by people in my neighbourhood even though I did not tell them where I lived! Looks like you don't have to put your details in for them to know who and where you are. Also added a twitter gadget to my igoogle page for easy access but as yet not sure how this works.
Had a look at the facebook pages of the our library and other institutions as well. I can see how they can be of use to get a news item across to lots of people. Don't think I will be joining though.