Thing 8 - Sharing is "FUN"damental

(Sorry - couldn't resist on the title)

This "thing" reminds me a lot of things #4-6 and my experience was much the same: there are COUNTLESS programs out there that can do just about anything you want and it is good to get familiar with a fraction of them. For this thing I decided to try and start something that will be pertinent to my job (which I haven't even officially started yet) and created a mosiac on BigHugeLabs featuring a few books that I know will be new to my library in the fall. Again, this kind of stuff is VERY easy to use and great for promotional type things such as this.

Now I have a question - the few things I have "created" through this series have consisted of images I have taken off of the net (like the book covers you see here). Am I going to get tazered by the copyright police? Seriously - is this a bad thing to do?

Thing 5 - More "fun" with Flickr

Wow!. Just when I thought I couldn't feel any more technologically inadequate - I find this stuff. In all honesty, these things that people are coming up with are pretty cool and could maybe be neat to try out every once in awhile, but I am not sure how much I would really worry about these things. Obviously copying over the above picture was not too difficult - so I could see myself spicing up a blog every now and again.

Thing 4: Flickr

All right, I admit it, I took the easy route with thing 4. I decided to look for a photo rather than start my own account. (thanks, tahdaev for the above pic of Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands) After reading up on Flickr, however, I definitely plan on opening an account and using it for professional purposes (I am not a big personal photo guy). Some big advantages I see to this format is that anyone can view them from anywhere and it definitely saves your computer/network in terms of memory space. I think this could be great for library promotion and whatnot, and that is how I plan on using it (after I start my new job in the fall).