Paradise Beach

When I first glanced at the'Week Three' two weeks ago, I said to myself 'Well there, I can't continue with this as I don't have a digital camera. Phew!'
Then a few days later I went back and read through the lesson properly and to my disappointment, realised that I didn't really need a camera.
So I followed the instructions and had a look at the suggested links. I must say that I enjoyed looking up different subjects and found many beautiful and interesting photos.
After about two hours, (I am doing this at home not at work!) I thought I had a nice photo to display, but then I realised that I had to join Flickr before I could do this. Well I was really put off!
Another email address! I mean the very thought of having to go through all that again, and then remembering it all! As it was pretty late by then, I went to bed.
That was last week.
Today is a holiday so I thought I would look at it again. Well I joined the Flickr and after another two hours of browsing, I selected the photo, but how I am going to get it from there to here I am yet to work out.

It worked!!! Amazing!!!

Acknowledgement: Photo by Jamie Hutt at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamie_hutt/2356600657/

A reluctant start

Well here I am! Two weeks late and very nervous about this whole thing! I have never been very confident with new and ever changing information and communication technology, and now, so very close to retirement, to be honest, I am not very enthusiastic about learning new things. And the fact that all this is so public makes it even harder. This may take most people out there 15 minutes to do, but it has taken me ages! I have just lost my first post before I 'published' it, so now I am redoing the whole thing. Still, it's a challenge, and I'll give it a go!
From what I've seen so far out there in the blogland, I can see blogging as very useful for libraries.
I like STRL's 'History Matters'. What a great way to promote collections and events and at the same time involve the community!
I hope to learn enough to be able to do similar things for my library. I also hope I don't lose this draft before I 'publish' it!
Sarah