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Sandy Nicholls's Blog (65)

Feed My Inbox

I don't know about you, but my inbox needs to go on a diet, not be feed. Anywho, this is a great idea to add new RSS feeds to your inbox. Instead of bookmarking or adding to favorites, you can add them directly to your email. This would be useful if someone was researching a subject or… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on December 8, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

TagGalaxy

TagGalaxy is a very fun site. I have branch pictures posted on Flicker and searched CarmelBranch. I love the way it applies the pictures. This is one of the sites that makes me wonder-how do they do that? Yes, I know, it's all about a written prog… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on November 19, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

All My Faves

The big joke at my house is that EVERYTHING is my favorite. I actually backup my favorite list. Between All My Faves and 43 Marks I found the All My Faves site the most interesting and the easiest to use. I actually checked out some of the sites I was not familiar with and added them… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on October 27, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Finance in America

This situation with finance, stock market, housing should not be… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on October 4, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Stormpulse

Of all the sites I really enjoyed … Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on October 4, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

PDF Form Filler Freeware

I have bookmarked this for future use. Any site that can do anything to make a PDF form easier has my vote. Now, if they could only come up with a program to help people print. We charge 10 cents a page for copies. Yes, that little bit on the second page does count! Yes, the extra 20 page… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on July 6, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

PDF

Sometimes it breaks my heart to see someone trying to fill out a PDF form that simply cannot be filled out without being printed out. What are these companies thinking of? First of all, most of these people applying for a job have a hard time just finding the company website. They a… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on June 21, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Catch the Reading Bug.....

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Added by Sandy Nicholls on June 5, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Facebook and more Facebook

I finally joined FB and it is truly enjoyable. Annabel was very persuasive-thank you! Most of my family and their friends have private FB-and to them I say-thank you. I think this is a great site to connect to the library. Speaking of advertising and connections-cost aside-why do libraries d… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on June 2, 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Some thoughts about blogging...

Just finished an article in The New York Times Magazine about a blogger's experience. It is a long article, but worth the read. Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on June 1, 2008 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Facebook

Ah-Facebook. I've been asked to join several times over the year. I was asked several times not to join by my children and I respect their opinion and space. I enjoy this learning site and keeping up my site for my branch. I have had situations this month that really made me take a step back and think about the internet and how people are using it in their own way. My father passed away suddenly April 30th. What made it worse, I received a phone call at work from the police in his town in Ohio,… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on May 23, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Authorsontheweb

Although I'm the children's person I also have A LOT of desk time, sometimes as many as 4 hours if we are short staffed. We are a small branch with a small staff, but actually have one of the highest circulations. I have to up on the lastest books, especially the authors with a huge… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on May 1, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

Google going green!

Blackle.com is an energy saving browser by Google. Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. It has a continous watt hours saved counter as well. They have an energy saving tips page along with suggested sites for saving energy… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on April 28, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Happy Earth Day

Remember when plastic grocery bags were the new best thing? Now some cities are banning their use. According to a recent People Magazine article, one such city is San Francisco. Each year Americans consume between 30 and 100 billion plastic bags-enough to encircle the planet at least… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on April 22, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

Food and Memories

Most of my recipes have a story or a memory attached to them. My grandmother shared her love of cooking and gardening with me. We lived on the same street and bless her heart she was so patient and a wonderful teacher. I still make a lot of her dishes. I actually have her famous waln… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on April 20, 2008 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Smilebox

I have added Smilebox to some of my favorites sites. Making a creation is fast and easy. The pictures on this blog are from a campaign at PLCMC called Paint the town Read. This campaign wraps up April 18th. You can read more about this at PLCMC. org. All the little cuties are from my various storytime groups-how cute are they? They love to have their picture taken and you can see more of them along with others at… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on April 8, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Slideshare

This is a wonderful site for sharing all presentations with others. My first thought was senior exit projects. For those of you not familiar with this, it is a requirement for graduation from Charlotte the Mecklenburg School system-often called the "dreaded senior exit project". It c… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on April 2, 2008 at 8:00pm — No Comments

BookJetty

Searching libraries far and wide is a great feature of BookJetty. Our locations are an all in one search. Search for a book and it searches all 23 of our library locations. Too bad one couldn't combine the best of the best features to create a book site. I usually suggest… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on March 31, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Litlovers

Litlovers is a very useful site for people that work in a library helping patrons, or anyone just interested in finding something to read. I found the reading guides the most interesting. It not only gives a brief summery of the book,… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on March 24, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Clipmark-ing

Say goodbye to those little scraps of paper, with quotes and other information that needs to be saved for future use. This is a wonderful site for gathering information either on the same subjects if you were doing a report or gathering various information. I had a little… Continue

Added by Sandy Nicholls on March 9, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments