Idaho Commission for Libraries

There's something being passed around among the library blogs these last couple of days.  Authors of the various blogs are being asked to list 8 random things about themselves that possibly others don't already know.  I thought about doing that here with a different take, here are 8 things that might not be known about ICFL:

1.  In 2006, ICFL was offered assistance from 79 volunteers that contributed 8,979 hours in support of ICFL services and programs.

Recently I've been doing some presentations at the ILA regional conferences about IM.  The step-by-step instructions for creating AOL and Yahoo IM accounts, along with using Meebo to monitor those accounts, send messages, etc. are now on the ICFL CE website. Watch for more content there in the future!

BCR's Shelly Drumm is talking about Social Software.

She asks: What do you think of when I say "social software"?
Answers:

• Young people
• MySpace
• YouTube
• FaceBook

Great visual at http://xkcd.com/c256.html

The Machine is Us/ing Us (YouTube Video)

We're at the ILA Spring Conference (Region 2). 

Flickr is a social networking tool to sharing photos. It's good for online photo storage, organizing photos, and finding photos in the giant database of photos that is Flickr.

Here's Shelly at the start of her presentation -- a demonstration of how Flickr works from taking the photo to uploading, to tagging, etc.

Social aspects to Flickr:

Okay, I admit it.

I hear alot about RSS and I know what it stands for, but when I click on the icon for RSS feeds off a website, it looks like code to me.

Luckily, I just was forward this really simple to understand video (from CommonCraft) on how it works.

Video: RSS in Plain English

Let me know what you think of it.  And I'll let you know if I actually do it!

 Anne