Woo-hoo for middle-aged me!

Wow...it's been a lo-o-o-o-o-o-n-n-n-n-n-g-g-g-g-g-g journey....

Overall, I'd say it was worth it even if I don't get an MP 3 player out of it. I found a WYSIWYG tool(Zoho writer) to revise and edit scripts on-line with my clients, I explored/joined LinkedIn and hopefully will get some new clients to use Zoho with, I learned a whole bunch of new jargon (twitter, RSS,bloglines, I joined a bunch of sites so that I'll never forget my password again, I impressed my husband by incorporating a picture in my blog, earlier I impressed my son with labeling pix in Flickr and -- this one's for Peggy -- I now can, with confidence, say I know the difference between posting a COMMENT on my blog and posting the actual blog, and last but not least,I learned how to download a book from Overdrive....now I need to go online and see if I can buy an MP 3 player.......

4:25am

I've just downloaded a P.G. Wodehouse audio book -- of course, I ended up having to upgrade my Windows Media Security and something else before I could download and OPEN it..but now it's done and I do see the light at the end of the tunnel.....

I needed a refresher course already

So I find this podcast that I really will want to keep up with... and I added it as an RSS to my Bloglines account(took me several tries;I forgot how to do it). It's an "audio book of the month" site and I found some very interesting books.

Of course, I don't have an MP3 player to download it to since I missed the 23 Things deadline...From MY perspective -- since I haven't gone to bed yet -- it's still Friday the 16th....

Again, you really don't want to know what I think

I produce corporate videos and TV spots for a living -- started in film -- have been doing it since video was considered a NEW technology (Yes! Ms. Technophobe was actually considered cutting edge many years ago.) Ever since the invention of the handycam, everyone thinks they're a producer/director...And the public, seeing less than broadcast quality everywhere on the web, now has lowered the bar of acceptance of this out-of-focus, jump cutting, line crossing as the new "standard".

Just because I can operate a sewing machine doesn't make me Donna Karan (just ask my old home economics (yes that's what it was called in my day)teacher. The difference is I was(rightfully) humiliated when I was forced to wear my creation in public...

Again, you didn't REALLY want to know....

You don't want to know....

So when I mentioned before that I had "done" one sixth of the one was Facebook and the other was LinkedIn. I did Facebook because My friend had created a Facebook page and she wanted me to see it. The LinkedIn network was mentioned in a business newsletter that I got at the library and I thought it might be good for networking my business, so I asked my husband and business partner to check it out. As he is my exact opposite; whereas I would have been more discriminating in those I queried to network, he,in the truest sense of embracing networking, queried ALL his contacts from ALL of his various email accounts. I was not amused by the number of emails that awaited me the next day... I mean, really, is someone that you've asked to be linked to going to insult you by saying,"no... I don't want anyone to know that I know you". Right now, if he queried ME, I'd refuse!!!!!!
Anyway, I watched (and thoroughly enjoyed) the Common Craft presentations (simple, clear), but when "Clara" twittered "ACK! I'm running late" I couldn't help but think it was because she was twittering someone that she was late and should have turned off her computer and gotten her little derriere out of the house!

Like I said, you don't (really) want to know what I think....

Not such a technophobe

Ha! Much to my surprise out of the 40 or so on the short list of Web 2.0 Awards nominees... I already use (on a weekly if not daily basis) seven of them... that's about one sixth -- not bad for a self-proclaimed technophobe.
Most of the ones I explored were sites, not really 'tools', so I can't really address their application for use in a library setting.

This is something I can use!

It's going to take me awhile to get the margins right (% in?)in ZOHO Writer, but this is definitely a feature I will be able to use in my business. We often e-mail scripts back and forth to clients for changes and approvals and each time we and our clients have to choose another color to make the latest changes apparent or underline them or italicize them... and of course, my FAVORITE thing is that it's WYSIWYG!!!!!!! (See previous blog by that name)