I was not sure about using Twitter at first and I still am not sure if I will continue to use it. It is a little confusing to why it is so popular. I found people to follow pretty easily but there are not many of my friends on Twitter. I followed both my older children who have accounts, as well as some library organizations like the American Library Association. I also followed the Indianapolis Star and our local newspaper, which I like because I can keep up on the news as it is posted. There are also some missionaries, and Pastors that I followed as well to keep up with what they are doing. I did not realize that people really use Twitter for business, but many do. I already thought that it would be helpful for my library to use this tool to remind people of events that are happening, as well as reaching out to the younger generation who use Twitter every day. To find me you should be able to find me @katrinallynn.
I chose Goodreads for my project. My account homepage is https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28854512-katrina-lynn. I like this site. I had ran across it before and used it this semester in a project where I had to “purchase” books for my library. I noticed it is very good to use for finding reviews of books. I have found some to read because of this site. I even won a book from a publisher from a drawing on this site! To add books you can type in the search bar and it will find the book you are interested in. You can add books that you want to read, have read or are currently reading. There is also were you can write your own review, to do so click on my review and then type your review, it is very easy. There are also book discussion groups you can get involved in as well. This can useful to a library in that the library can look up reviews to find what is popular, so as to help with purchasing books. Also the library could have a book discussion group online or have a link on their website so people could find new books to read. I really liked this site and will continue to use it.
For my photosharing project I could not get Picasa to cooperate so I chose Photobucket instead. I also used Flickr as well. I uploaded pictures to both of them that I took at my local library in Ladoga Indiana. I think a library could use a photosharing site to share pictures of some of the programs that they have going on. I could also use these personally to share pictures with my friends and family. If I or anyone else post pictures online, it would be the proper thing to do to get permission from the subject of what they were taken of or the photographer who took them. I looked at other sites like Instagram and Picasa (just couldn’t get my pictures to upload to Picasa).
I made a slideshow for photobucket, here is the link…http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/Katrina_Wagner_Lynn/slideshow/
Here is the one I made on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/katrinallynn/
The picture shown is shared with permission from Ladoga-Clark Township Public Library.
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