Litlovers

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Looked at the reviews, etc., for great book I have just finished 'Eat, Pray, Love' by Elizabeth Gilbert. Did one of the online courses - 'Literature Matters' - Why We Read'. Found this a bit simple but had fun reading the tip sheets. These were for the plots/characters of the Mills and Boon type books.

Lots of Fun!

Loved doing the family tree via Geni. Have always wanted to get started on this, but never enough time. This is so easy - just click on arrows and you're away. Realised my family was a bit complicated with ex's, additional kids, etc., so probably a bit more complicated than most. Lots of tidying up to do. I think I would definitely recommend this to customers who wanted to get started, but were overwhelmed by the whole thing.

her family tree from Geni.com

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Well here we go again!

I can't believe it was in November 2007 that we first started Web2. Where has the time gone? It was fantastic way back then when we all got so enthusiastic with this programme and then became frantic Facebookers, etc!!! It's great to get back to it. My first thought, was oh, no, can I remember where my blog is? Do I need a password? etc., but no I just clicked on and there I was. Nothing to remember!!
I look forward to all the exercises.

Exercise 23 - THE END!

Can't believe I made it! Has been an up and down time, but really one of the best training tools I've ever used in ACL. Congratulations to you Jayne for getting it up and running. Not too sure how much has stayed in my brain, but now when people talk about 'blogs', 'technorati', 'podcasting', etc., I know that this is not a foreign language. Of course the MP3 player is a great carrot to get us to the end, but there are so many things to be gained by this programme. Now we can help our customers, we can understand our kids' conversation and if we're feeling lonely, we can always go on Facebook and find some friends!

Exercise 22 - E books

Well, I've probably said it before, but this is something I definitely know I wouldn't use! Will I prove myself wrong?? Sorry, reading a book on-line is not my thing. I'm the person who puts on the CD, pours the glass of wine and curls up in the couch with that lovely invention - THE BOOK! But this was a great exercise, as had never looked at Netlibrary and really wouldn't have had a clue how to help customers wanting to do so. So I've at least learnt that much. The only thing I would possibly use are the journals or perhaps material I required for a study purpose, when I couldn't get a hard copy.

Exercise 21 - Podcasts

This seemed to be quite frustrating for us all in the workroom. I tried looking at Podcast.net but really didn't have much success. Kept coming up with this ActiveXcontrol thing. So read the exercise re Bloglines and RSS feeders and thought, how on earth do I do that? Had completely forgotten that exercise. But low and behold, when I went in to my Bloglines account, I remembered it all. Yes, knowledge that is only stored in the brain and never used, is not of much use! On going in to Bloglines, found the 'Using Bloglines To Track Podcasts' article and that simplified the whole exercise. From there I could add an RSS feed for a news podcast to my Bloglines account. I think I'm getting to the point of information overload!