Our library popped up first thing with just the address. The marker was on the house just to the north, so I did get the marker edited to the front entry, ultilizing Satellite view on the closest I could get. It has the correct name, address, phone number and clickable web address (URL listed?). I can tell that the Satellite has not been updated recently because the addition to the Court House nearby is not there yet.
I moved my home address to the front door also.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Thing #25 Part 1
I love maps. I navigate fairly well until we are right there. Just Wednesday, we went to North Platte and my husband had a map to a restaurant and I didn't tell him to turn fast enough to get into the parking lot. Luckily it had a second entrance/exit.
The first address that we were to look up is the Nebraska Capitol Building. I could see the colors on the cars in the parking lot across the street. The colors were not very bright but the grass was green also, and the leaves on the trees were all out and green too.
Mostly I navigate from street maps, but I love to see the Satellite view when looking at the internet. We have been planning a trip to Yellowstone for almost 2 years and I was looking at Interstate 90 north of Sheridan WY on Satellite view and saw the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Visitors Center literally just off an exit. It was in the 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die, so I talked him into putting it onto the itinerary, since we will be passing about the time it opens in the morning.
I finally took the opportunity to use the patron internet to "drive" the Street View. When I tried at one of our staff computers, it didn't have enough get up and go. I saw the Eiffel Tower from several blocks away and looked for Kangaroos but didn't find them.
The first address that we were to look up is the Nebraska Capitol Building. I could see the colors on the cars in the parking lot across the street. The colors were not very bright but the grass was green also, and the leaves on the trees were all out and green too.
Mostly I navigate from street maps, but I love to see the Satellite view when looking at the internet. We have been planning a trip to Yellowstone for almost 2 years and I was looking at Interstate 90 north of Sheridan WY on Satellite view and saw the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Visitors Center literally just off an exit. It was in the 1001 Historic Sites You Must See Before You Die, so I talked him into putting it onto the itinerary, since we will be passing about the time it opens in the morning.
I finally took the opportunity to use the patron internet to "drive" the Street View. When I tried at one of our staff computers, it didn't have enough get up and go. I saw the Eiffel Tower from several blocks away and looked for Kangaroos but didn't find them.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thing 24
My town is not big enough that people would be blogging or twittering very often about our library, so I went with the town searches in Twitter (finally signing up for Twitter so I will do Thing #13 later), and Google Alert. The Google Alerts came up with some local news and I was able to get a few twits to my e-mail, mostly job postings and a lady who did not seem very excited to be coming here for business. "Whoop." Oh, well.
As I was looking through Thing #24 instructions, I looked again at the Bloglines Citation Search. So I did a citation search of our library's web address and did a subscription of the search so I can see if anyone ever links to our website. There were 2 results (both linked to Delicious Thing #14) already so maybe more in the future.
Since most of the searches came up were news and the Bloglines Citations were old and the twit was unenthusiastic, there was nothing to respond to. What a let down to try to get this working.
As I was looking through Thing #24 instructions, I looked again at the Bloglines Citation Search. So I did a citation search of our library's web address and did a subscription of the search so I can see if anyone ever links to our website. There were 2 results (both linked to Delicious Thing #14) already so maybe more in the future.
Since most of the searches came up were news and the Bloglines Citations were old and the twit was unenthusiastic, there was nothing to respond to. What a let down to try to get this working.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Thing 7
No sooner did I have my Google Reader (personal playtime) up that I went running to my favorite Harry Potter websites to get the RSS onto it. Someone mentioned the Library Journal RSS feeds recently so while I was posting Thing 6 on one internet tab I was adding feeds from another to Bloglines on a 3rd tab. Some days I can multitask. I did look at the 4 search tools under the Thing 7. I put a couple of RSS's on Bloglines and another one on Google, but I thought syndic8.com was hard to maneuver through.
Star Wars
OK, I am trying new Things, even some things not on the list. This came in the Star Wars newsletter I signed up for to keep on top for my Fiction Selection part of my duties. I will give it to the Library if I win. It took 3 or 4 tries to get the right combination for it to post to the Blog.
Thing 6
For the RSS, I started with Bloglines, and did the suggested feeds manually, except for some of my fellow bloggers, since I am already following some on Blogger. I then set up a Google Reader also, to see if I liked it better. Then I did some exporting and importing so that Bloglines is my "business" RSS and Google is my "personal playtime" RSS. I like somethings about Bloglines and other things about Google Reader. I have over 1000 unread in Google Reader at the moment, oops.
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