Week Three: Online Meetings

I know the assignment only required viewing one (1) archived webinar from any of the sources listed in this lesson.  I examined the archives at Infopeople, SirsiDynix, BCR, Wimba (WebJunction – Kansas) and Opal.  At Infopeople I looked at New Copyright Tools and Best Practices: Copyright Law Update 2010 a webinar originally presented by Mary Minow on Jan 14, 2010 from 12pm-1pm PST.  At SirsiDynix I viewed From Libraries to Lifebraries originally presented Feb 2, 2010 by Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Strategy, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Ohio.  I found Ms. Blower's examination of current trends suggesting that the imminent demise of print may be somewhat exaggerated very interesting.  At BCR I made a quick pass through The Future for Cataloging led by Linda Gonzalez on January 25, 2008.  I want to go back when I have more time and explore this session in more depth.   For a Wimba session I chose The Kansas Tax Form Webinar held on Friday, December 18, 2009.  Finally, at Opal I looked at their Archive of History and Genealogy Programs and more specifically at the archived session Genealogy: How to Write to the Courthouse presented by Christine Merseal of the Jefferson County Library in Missouri in November 2007.  I rather liked the various format options that most of the Opal webinars offered, to wit: Streaming audio, text chat, and presentation slides about Writing the Courthouse (Playback time: 55 minutes) MP3 audiorecording about Writing the Courthouse (16.8 MB file; playback time of 55 minutes) PowerPoint slides about Writing the Courthouse. I am planning on sitting in on the live Infopeople webinar Open Office: What Libraries Need to Know featuring Laura Solomon as speaker scheduled for Thursday, March 18, 2010 from 12pm-1pm PDT.  Of course, I will also being joining this project wrap-up webinars during the week of April 26-30.

Week Two: Online Communities

I had previously created a Facebook page at the insistence of my sister-in-law. Never the less, I went ahead and reviewed the step-by-step guide, Facebook 101 and the other recommended links and found a couple of useful tips that I had not known about when I originally set up my account. This is particularly true with respect to privacy settings. Based upon what I read during the course of this lesson I have know "locked" access to my Facebook page down as tight as I think possible by giving access to anything remotely sensitive to friends only. I sent friend request(s) to Janelle Mercer and Heather Braum the mentors for this session. I hope the links to their Facebook pages here worked. I have received confirmation from Janelle but not yet from Heather. I have written on several of my family members walls. The other night, quite by accident, I discovered the live chat function when I was working on this 23 Things Kansas assignment on Facebook. Suddenly a chat window popped open with my sister-in-law chatting me up and we exchange inanities for about fifteen minutes. Now I really need to find out how to hide the fact that I am online when I log into Facebook. I explored Mashable's Facebook Guide and found a lot of good information about using Facebook. I added myself as a fan to the State Library of Kansas Facebook page. While I was fooling around I also ended up adding myself as fans to to the I Love Pizza John's/Derby Kansas and the Derby Panther Football Facebook pages. Pizza John's in Derby has the best thin crust pizza on the planet. As I am a graduate of Derby High School, have had several nephews that played for the Panthers over the years and have a niece who is currently a DSH cheerleader I was already a fan before Facebook was ever dreamed of. I think I became a fan of 23 Things Kansas but it doesn't show up on my FB page fan list even though I do show up in the fans list on the 23 Things Kansas FB page. I joined the 23 Things Kansas Ning. Here is a link to my page: Terry Hamblin . I joined the Kansas Library Association FB group.