Thing 9 - taking and editing photos

The iPad camera isn't bad- it seems a bit cumbersome to be holding up such a large tablet...but it works!  I tried the Avairy app to do some editing - fairly successful.  I never claimed to be a great photographer, or artist.  I took lots of pictures of dogs during our read to a dog program, and I "edited" Jeep.  I think it would take a lot more practice, patience, and paying for some effects to make this really useful for photographers or artists.  

Before

And after

Photo attached

So I had a bit of trouble attaching a photo in Thing 2- and with a little help from my friends found that Blogger looks and acts quite different when logging in from the web site or from the app on my digital device.  So, thing 2 is out of place because I finally got back to attaching the photo.  Yea me!  

Thing 8 Managing Social Networking

I just read an article in the StarTribune titled Mind Your Digital Manners.  It was a question and answer article - and one of the questions was about boundaries.  Here is an exerpt:

There are a lot of social networks, but that doesn’t mean you have to be friends with everyone everywhere. Facebook for friends, LinkedIn for professional acquaintances, Twitter for public discussion. If you were a financial planner, would you want your clients to know how you spend your money on the weekends? I certainly wouldn’t. The best approach is to not become Facebook friends with a professional acquaintance unless the relationship morphs into a genuine friendship.

And I think that's true for me.  I have a Facebook page, and it is just for "friends".  Of course many of my work colleagues ARE my friends, but for me, Facebook is family and old/good friends.

I also have a Linkedin account.  It is definitely for professional acquaintances.  I have posted only a brief resume, and I don't actually check it very often - maybe if I was looking for a new job, or doing the hiring for my "company" I would access it more often.

Twitter - I set up an account, but never really got into using it.  Personally, I just don't really care if the world knows what it is that I am doing at any given time - and I don't feel like I need to know about anything/everything from any particular person all the time either. Professionally, however, I can see where following a group of children's or YA librarians who tweet about their story times, link to professional journal articles, or comment about their library activities would be interesting and helpful, just as I am a part of a listserv for library related conversation.

I have a google+ account but it really hasn't taken off like Facebook, so there isn't much activity.  Professionally, it too might be a good place to follow and participate in a group with common interests.

Thing 7 content sharing and saving

I started a Pinterest account some time back - then never went back to it.  I have found other people's Pinterest boards interesting and helpful (craft projects for story time and bulletin boards and some great quotes).  I think that it needs a bit more organization because I search for such random stuff, my Pinterest page would look like my kitchen junk drawer!

I've finished 5 things!

Hot Dog!  I've figured it out!  There are a couple ways to create the post in Blogger.  This way will let me add a photo.  Maybe I'll go back and post those photos of the very level shelf markers we put on the children's picture book bins.

Thing #6. Creating and editing a Document

I can see where CloudOn and  Quickoffice would be helpful to have for those people that need to do spreadsheets and documents while they are on the go.  PowerPoint might be especially helpful for those people doing presentations regularly.  They can update and or make presentations using their devices -without having to juggle flash drives or laptops along with their usual mobile devices.

I thought Signnow would be really pretty great - add a signature - except this particular app only let's you do 5 per month without charge, and just signing up was an exercise in personal data hell!

Thing #5 Notetaking

Springpad looks pretty useful - my husband is the cook in my family and uses lots of recipes from the internet rather than from "old fashioned" cookbooks.  He has said a from time to time that he would like to find a place to put those recipes so that he doesn't have to google them each time he wants to recreate some marvelous creation.  This might be just the place for him to paste them.  I did read in another blog that pictures with the recipes don't transfer, and that's too bad because sometimes it's the picture or photo that I recall rather than the name or the ingredients.

I like the idea of thank you notes and a photo all organized by Springpad too.  I wonder if I can get my kids to sign up for this and send thank you's to the Aunties at Christmas and Birthdays!

Remember the Milk seems like a good idea, and seems simple enough -especially to those who are glued to their mobile device.  Since I am using a borrowed device, I won't be using it, but think that the concept definitely has merit.

Thing 4 - Keeping Up

I'm not sure that I can ever really keep up, because everything seems to change every day - and if it doesn't change, it becomes outdated and something new is created to take its place...sigh...sometimes it makes me feel old.

I have some RSS feeds one into my outlook email, and that works to keep me up to date on the things that I MUST stay up to date on.  Flipboard and Zite certainly look easy enough to use, though I prefer to read various blogs and  sites on my own time rather than have them pile up like so many unread magazines on my device :)