spring cleaning #30

I was surprised to learn that we should move our library pictures to Flickr or put them on CD, but it makes sense. Due to our previous assisgnments, my p drive and z drive are pretty clean, but I did find some old unneeded library pictures on my z drive and I deleted them. So things are pretty tidy!

spring cleaning #29

I took this to heart and did clean up my work e-mail folders. The suggestion to make them like your paper folders was good, except now I have to organize my paper folders! Did delete a lot of old e-mails and set up more e-mail folders. So still have cleaning to do, but made a start.

spring cleaning #28

I make lists all the time, and have been through several trainings on getting organized. It was interesting to read GTD, as it confirms and reminds me to keep on track with staying organized. I tend to use the Franklin Covey planners as I like using paper.

#26 sharing music

I looked at Project Playlist and searched for an indie band from Australia I liked, figuring this would be a good way to test the music available. Found seven entries for this band and was able to listen to some music. Went ahead and created an acct on Project Playlist. Found more songs for this group on imeem which was pretty neat. Tried myspace and didn't find any songs by this group even though I was looking in the music section of myspace. Of course, I did find an person with a myspace page by this name, which may have been done by the band but it was pretty empty. They haven't done anything with it.
Decided not to create music on jamstudio as there's enough bad music in the world already.

sound #25

I found it really easy to burn my song to my CD. I do use CDs still in my car, although I can see that a MP3 player would be great, especially since my new car has a MP3 player jack. However, to find the time to download music might be difficult, especially since my husband and I share a computer. And he's always on it!

I think the marketplace will veer towards MP3 rather than CDs, but artists will have to get paid, and I have faith that the music business will figure all this out. It may be that more and more artists sell their music directly to the consumer from now on.

sound #24 (ihcpl next generation)

Well, I looked around at napster, itunes and yahoo. I probably will go with itunes or yahoo as I like their prices. I like that itune is 99 cents a song as I'm not sure I would use enough to warrant the 12.95 a month for napster. I like that itunes has tutorials for beginners. Yahoo is only $6 a month and I might spend that much a month.
I did look at HCPL and I did look at the free download sites. Was successful in downloading a song to my office computer and then to the branch Zen Nano. But can see where I'd want to get songs from one of the paid sites to get my favorite artists and songs.
My favorite radio stations do have live music, but I already knew that. Just haven't taken advantage of it.

week 10 #23 the end

I've really enjoyed this. My favorite things were blogging, flicker, wikis, and digital media. I think this has given me more confidence in trying new things on the web, and I think I have a better attitude towards learning about these things. I was surprised at how much of this I could use in my personal life. I'm thinking about creating a personal blog, and looking forward to doing more with photos online, and hoping to do more downloading of music and books.
Here at HCPL, I think we could do more with wikis, flicker, and maybe we could explore some of the things libraries are doing with social networks like Second Life.
I'd like to learn something basic which is how to burn CDs. Also what exactly is Flash?