Better late than never...

Last week was a very busy week and before I knew it the week was over before I got a chance to blog!  I am learning so much in this course.  It's exciting!  It's also going very fast.  I will be sad when it's over.  :(  

I never realized how useful RSS was until last week!  I thought it was mostly just a way to alert you to changes on a web page.  I never realized you could also use it to pull content into your web page.  What a great idea!  I know I and lots of the librarians in my system are always looking for a way to make web pages easier to update!  This will easily fit into that category.   I am currently using an rss feed to pull pics in from flickr and to pull my in my delicious links.  I have been using that for a few months now and never realized I was doing it with RSS.    I was just copying and pasting links... now it all makes a lot more sense.  :)  I am excited to try a lot of the new things I learned last week. 

I also really got into using google reader.  I am not sure if I like it or bloglines better, but this class will help me decide that.  Right now it seems to be bloglines since I can easily remember the web address... hehe.  However, I think google reader has its advantages, too. 

Before this course I had also set up a Delicious account, (sorry I can never remember where to put all the dots.  Aren't I a great techie?) but I always got frustrated with it because I felt like it was kind of disorganized.  Wala!  This week I learned all sorts of new ways to organize it.  I knew it was possible I just hadn't had the time to experiment with it.  Here are some of the new tips in delicious I learned:

1.  Creating a bundle

2.  Using the for:tag to send someone a link. 

3.  Sending a link with a tag in it.  (Before I always just sent a link to ALL of my bookmarks which was really frustrating to newer users.  Who wants to sift through all of my bookmarks?)

I really enjoyed bookmarking again this last week thanks to all the new things I learned!  I have already showed a few people and can't wait to show more!