Week 3 - Facebook, My Space, and Linkedin
Blog for Week Three of MLA 2.0 Course - MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin
I found this week’s assignments much easier than I thought they would be. My main problem is that I’m trying to take this course at home on an old laptop computer with dialup Internet access. I was afraid that I would not be able to get into Facebook at all, but it wasn’t that time consuming to access it. I have learned a few lessons about trying to do Web 2.0 on an old computer with dialup access - that will be another Blog soon, I hope. I also plan to clean up my Blog pages and add some photos.
I finally figured out that one of my problems with setting up my Blog was that I was importing text incorrectly. And once I finally saw the video on how to blog, it all became much more clear.
This week I was able to successfully set up a Facebook and Linkedin account and view the MySpace library sites mentioned in exercise 3.
Anyway, on to Week Three Assignments:
- How can social networking be used by MLA to connect members: Linked In is certainly a way that MLA and other organizations could connect members. It appears to be most suited for job placement. Perhaps it could replace the current systems that MLA uses.
- I found the questions asked quite disturbing, and apparently I had to answer them before being allowed to sign up. I don’t lie well, so I had to add real information that I would rather not share. I assume that other librarians and professionals might also be reluctant to participate at this time if forced to divulge such details.
- Should your library have a Facebook or MySpace page? Not at this time. Having a MySpace page for the entire organization to reach young people - both younger members and younger consumers - might be quite effective. I really enjoyed the Denver library site!
- Are there privacy concerns for individuals when using social networking sites. Absolutely, especially for women. We hear horror stories about problems with potential employers, stalkers, other users spreading false rumors, and other bad things.
- What did you like or not like about your experience with Facebook or MySpace. The exercise was with MySpace, not Facebook. I found the sign up procedure for MySpace to be unnecessarily difficult. It should warn potential users that they cannot access MySpace until they process an e-mail message that MySpace sends. I was not able to use MySpace for several days because the message was sent to my work e-mail and I could not set up a different account with my Gmail account. Once I could access my account, I found it quite easy to use, although I had the same problems as others did in that it primarily looked for “friends” with similar e-mail accounts. I found it relatively easy to find the pages for MLA, PUBMED, and WorldCat and add them to my page. Would I use any of these in real life? Not at this time. But it was fun to play with them.
Trying to Participate in MLA Web 2.0 101 Course
Hi. I’m a part-time, semi-retired medical librarian who would like to get up to speed with Web 2.0. I attended the MLA broadcast on Web 2.0 last week, and was pleased to learn about the 8 week web-based MLA course, Web 2.0 101. I’m registered, but will I be able to finish the course? I can’t do the work at work because our computer network is restricted. And our computer at home uses DIAL-UP! I tried watching the U-tube presentation on RSS, but gave up after 40 minutes with just a few random words.
I was able to set up this Blog through Word Press, but could not post my message the first two times. At that point, I figured that I needed to save my text in word processing software, because not only was my Blog not posting, my draft message kept disappearing!
So, will I survive? Will I succeed? We’ll see.
slow progress
I’m back again. By the end of yesterday I was so frustrated - I just could not figure out how to post my blog and wiki to the MLA wiki page without having the URL show. But today is a new day, and with my (cheap) husband watching, we figured it out and I successfully loaded up my links, finally. He noticed the BIG note on the MLA page to go here for help - and someone had posted my exact problem - and the solution was there. Whew - so I won’t give up yet.
Now - does anyone know how to get the RSS feeds into the blog? (mine are happily living in my new GMAIL account reader).
MLA Web 2.0 101 Wk 2 - Wikis vs Blogs
This week in the MLA Web 2.0 course we learned about Wikis. I also learned that the Blog that I set up last week actually had no message. Apparently I did not hit the final post buttons.
I’m going to start by listing some of the ways that we could use RSS feeds in the library – which I thought I had posted last week, but apparently not successfully:
- subscribe to selected news feeds, feeds from other key organizations, to keep up with latest developments
- subscribe to select ToC – perhaps find a way to incorporate these into the manually produced list that I currently produce each week (there were hints on how to do this in the MLA Web 2.0 course)
- encourage other departmental staff to subscribe to RSS feeds
- encourage organization to develop its own RSS feeds, consider how our library could use them.
And, now, on to my assignment for this week – Wikis vs Blogs:
Blogs seem to be more personal, more off the cuff, more on what the individual is thinking. Wikis seem more formal, better for institutions, better for links, better for more complex information, and are much easier to use (for me at least). People can respond to and interact with both forms.
MLA Web 2.0 101 Wk 2 - Wikis vs Blogs « Pvanhine’s Weblog
MLA Web 2.0 101 Wk 2 - Wikis vs Blogs « Pvanhine’s Weblog
I hate blogging!
I don’t know how many times I THOUGHT I posted something on my blog, and it appears to be there, but when I check the next day or so, it’s gone. AGRRR! Anyhow, I’m trying again. I’m pasting in what I thought I had already posted on Wednesday…
Pam’s blog (again)
Somehow the original posting and my comment on it seemed to have gone missing. So I’m trying again. My first comment on blogs vs wikkis is that WIKKIS ARE MUCH EASIER!
Anyhow. This blog is for the MLA Web 2.0 101 course, and will contain some of my reactions to it (and for whatever is supposed to be added here).
Wish me luck! I’m trying to do this with a dial-up connection.
This week in the MLA Web 2.0 course we learned about Wikis. I also learned that the Blog that I set up last week actually had no message. Apparently I did not hit the final post buttons.
I’m going to start by listing some of the ways that we could use RSS feeds in the library – which I thought I had posted last week, but apparently not successfully:
- subscribe to selected news feeds, feeds from other key organizations, to keep up with latest developments
- subscribe to select ToC – perhaps find a way to incorporate these into the manually produced list that I currently produce each week (there were hints on how to do this in the MLA Web 2.0 course)
- encourage other departmental staff to subscribe to RSS feeds
- encourage organization to develop its own RSS feeds, consider how our library could use them.
And, now, on to my assignment for this week – Wikis vs Blogs:
Blogs seem to be more personal, more off the cuff, more on what the individual is thinking. Wikis seem more formal, better for institutions, better for links, better for more complex information, and are much easier to use (for me at least). Wikis are also collaborative efforts. People can respond to and interact with both forms.
http://pvanhine.wordpress.com/?p=6 (apparently not…)
Pam’s Blog and Wiki (just starting)
Link to Blog: http://pvanhine.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/hello-world/#comment-5
Link to Wiki: http://pammlaweb20wiki.wetpaint.com/
First successful blog (for MLA Web 2.0 101 course)
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Hi. I’m a part-time, semi-retired medical librarian who would like to get up to speed with Web 2.0. I attended the MLA broadcast on Web 2.0 last week, and was please to learn about the 8 week web-based MLA course, Web 2.0 101. I’m registered, but will I be able to finish the course? I can’t do the work at work because our computer network is restricted. And our computer at home uses DIAL-UP! I tried watching the U-tube presentation on RSS, but gave up after 40 minutes with just a few random words.
I was able to set up this Blog through Word Press, but could not post my message the first two times. At that point, I figured that I needed to save my text in word processing software, because not only was my Blog not posting, my draft message kept disappearing!
So, will I survive? Will I succeed? We’ll see.
