23 Things, Week 9 #23!!!

Some of my favorite discoveries were blogs, Flickr, Gizmo and You Tube. This exercise reminds me how quick our world changes and we need to keep in touch with the latest advances or be lost to alot of new things and technology. The surprises in this journey are when I tell my kids about technology they know nothing about - the surprised looks on their faces are priceless. I love it! Mom knows something they don't know.

Some things were a little user unfriendly. I got through the work, but for a number of items I don't really have a good understanding of what it was and how it could be used. At least this exercise cracked the door into a world I knew nothing about in many instances. It would have been great to have links, maybe on our intranet home page that could have gotten us to some of the basic sites that we used over and over. The lay-out was somewhat cumbersome - rather than going to 23 things and then finding 3 or 4 items to do under each of the 23 things, it would have been easier to list everything in one spot and calling it 100 things to do. There was alot of going back and forth to sites over and over.

Concerning another discovery program I would have to see what it was about and how much time it involved. I would rather see shorter projects and more mentoring. The younger staff have such a technological knowledge and ease of trying new things that many of the older staff grapple with.

I would call this experience interesting.

Murphy, you have been a very good boy to listen to all these ramblings about 23 Things!

23 Things, Week 9 #22

I went on Project Gutenberg and located "Poems Every Child Should Know" by Mary Burt and found that it was human read and there were many options for downloading. A number of formats were offered including; Ogg Vorbis Audio, AppleItunes, MP3 Audio and Speex Audio.

Now even Murf can "read" a book!

23 Things Week 9 #21

Podcast.net and Yahoo Podcasts are the two podcast directories that I looked at, but I found Yahoo much easier to navigate. I found church and sermon podcasts which were of interest to me since my husband is a Pastor. I also looked at food, fasion and family podcasts, as well as some music ones. I came across one called Firefly and it had nice violin music (I'm a violinist) so I clicked on that while I was reading the directions of how to add an RSS feed for my Bloglines account. Another co-worker helped me with the process when I got stuck. Firefly is now on my Bloglines and I only pray it is a good site, as I never got to listen to the speaking...

Murphy it's not wise to connect with things you are not sure of....

4th of July 2007 - Mount Rushmore Singers

Sing A Long!

Racing baby

Racing Baby

23 Things Week 9 #20

I looked at several You Tube videos and really enjoyed them. I saw a great one of the 4 men of Mt. Rushmore singing on the 4th of July - it really had me applauding! The one I would like to post is of a preborn baby looking like he is racing a car - the sounds effects make it so funny. Since I am the mother of a OB/GYN who delivers lots of babies, this would be a special one for our family.

Music and babies are both favorites of Murphpy!

23 Things Week 8 #19

The tool I selected from the Web 2.0 Awards was the #1 Social Networking site of Facebook. While I recently joined Facebook, I am still a novice and I need to learn all that it can do and how I can best use it. I really could use some instruction for new users....to catch up with my friends and family who have added me to their Facebook.

Murphy would be a cute face on Facebook....