This experience has been frustrating more often than not, and there was a lot to learn that escaped me, but I think I learned quite a bit.
I learned that you can teach an old dog new tricks, but it takes a real long time to get her to stand up, turn around a few times, and sit back down in front of the computer, and then start to hit the keys.
I think some of the things we looked at could be used for good as well as evil.
I learned how to use my wonderful new Nikon, and actually copy pictures into the computer, and onto my flash drive and into Flickr, and then how to do a slide show, and post it on my blog. And if I had another 84 hours, I'll bet I could do it again.
I fooled around with Tags and such just long enough to recognize them when I see them out and around the internet, and to believe that many times they are overused and kind of silly and meaningless, for example, I could tag this blog "Arriverderci" "Techtrek" "dog" "tricks" etc., but I'll bet you still couldn't find me (and maybe if you found me I wouldn't be what you were looking for).
I know I will not ever be tempted to use Facebook, and my days at Flickr are seriously numbered. I like to make friends one at a time, and show my pics to people I like, and don't really need to have strangers seeing my pets and children online.
On the other hand, I think maybe we at James Island might want to continue our blog, just so folks can see what we're up to here.
I want to thank Amanda
for always being available when I hit the wall
and yelled for help.
I want to thank all my friends/
co-workers/partners-in-crime at the
James Island Branch Library
for putting up with the many hours I spent fighting with this project
and their encouragement, even when I was losing the battle
and their enthusiastically tolerating me
following them around with my camera and
treating me like I had been really clever and creative
and especially for being an incredible group of people to work with.
I want to thank Buffy Librarian
for finding and posting
the Betty Glover Library Workout Tape
which seems like the perfect way to end this project...
...except I still can't figure out how to embed a video
but I can do links, so...
...AND ARRIVERDERCI!
