Blog Etiquette

Some interesting information on what to post on your blog, what not to post, as well as some blog etiquette can be found at the following website.


http://weblogs.about.com/od/bloggingtips/tp/TipsBeginnerBloggers.

 

Creating a Twitter Account

A Twitter account can be used to stay abreast of all the current news and happenings in a particular field you are interested in.  All the latest information can be retweeted to people you think may be interested in it.  A great way to stay up to date on information that matters to you.

Learn how to create a Twitter account at the following website.

http://stuartwooster.com/how-to-create-twitter-account-get-it-right-first-time





When posting on you twitter account your message cannot exceed 140 characters, this is a good site to use in order to shorten extremely long url's.

http://tinyurl.com/

Final Project

Wow, the course has almost come to an end.  I have finally decided to do the QR Code project.  It should be interesting since I can make use of my project in the library in which I work.  It will be interesting to see how many people are going to be aware of the QR Codes and how to decode them.

Fun with QR Codes

While looking for some inspiration for a QR Code project idea I came across this interesting site where a university library created a QR Code project for their library users.  There are some really great videos on this website to look at.

QR Code

Your QR Code must be linked to a website, therefore the previous one did not work out, even though on the QR Code generator website it stated that it could be a website or text that you could generate into a code. At least I am learning a lot, I have a better understanding of social media than I ever would have been interested in knowing since I am not a techno enthusiast. I would rather potter around in my garden growing herbs and vegetables. But I am in the library field afterall all, and I most definitelly do need to at least try and keep up to date with what is happening in the social media world. Many library users are into the latest technology, and in order to help them we too need to at least have an idea of what they are talking about. This is an extremely user friendly website to use to generate QR Codes from.

http://www.qrstuff.com/

QR Code for a possible project?

I have decided to try the QR Code for my project and since I have managed to add one to my blog, I think I should continue with it.

The QR Code project has proved to be a lot of work, but it is exciting to think that so much information
is stored in a little black and white block.

To Podcast or not?

It appears as if I may have to opt to do a podcast instead of a wiki. I will therefore try to recap some information on the subject of creating a podcast since I have not yet done so fully. According to Wikipedia, a podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio radio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The word is a neologism derived from "broadcast" and "pod" from the success of the iPod, as podcasts are often listened to on portable media players. An interesting video can be viewed at the following website on how to create a podcast.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hrBbczS9I0">