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Thing 31: Get Organized with Plaxo

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Quaker Parrots

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Did you participate in Learning 2.0?: Yes

How did you find us?: I work for PLCMC

Hometown:: North Olmsted, Ohio

About me:: I have worked for PLCMC for 7 years. I am the youth service person and I have circulation desk duties-sort of an everything person. I like to garden, listen to music, read and collect Hello Kitty items. I love to take pictures. My husband is from England and we have 3 children. I have a cat, a dog and 2 quaker parrots that are lots of fun. I LOVE the beach!

Favorite website:: http://thestorystoreandmore.blogspot.com

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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

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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

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Catch the Reading Bug.....

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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

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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.

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At 6:24am on June 1st, 2008, Annabel said…: Oh no, Sandy, #61 is Facebook too! Do we need to keep meeting like this on the Ning? I do wish you would join me on Facebook. It is so good for keeping in contact - for all sorts but for me it is great for the people on the other side of the Pacific! You can find me here any time you join up on Facebook.

At 8:09pm on May 25th, 2008, Annabel said…: Glad you like the black and white purring and mewing kitty. My cats get quite concerned when I play with it. They become very alert and wonder who is the cat I have on the desk. I came across it on a couple of foodie blogs. So I guess you led me to the kitty too ;>)

At 8:33pm on May 18th, 2008, Annabel said…: I agree about the cooking beginners. Tastespotting has a real mixture of stuff, basic to very specialized. Bakespace.com is similar - I think a lot of the people there are just people interested in learning though there are also regular foodbloggers. I am really enjoying my membership of Foodbuzz.com in particular; I seem to have found more synergy in interests there and am having fun. The interesting thing about this site is that I am making friends with people I don't know through other circles, whereas with Facebook etc it is the opposite.

At 10:05pm on May 17th, 2008, Annabel said…: Sandy, I FINALLY got a recipe up on Tastespotting! #14860. Thx for introducing me to it.

At 11:59pm on April 20th, 2008, Annabel said…: Sandy, I wanted also to thank you for introducing me to Smilebox. I was doing the Thing just after a friend and former colleague died at 40 from breast cancer. As a result I did a remembrance of Lizzie on it as my task. On the weekend I shared it with a number of her friends and they have been so pleased with it. Web 2.0 has a role in many parts of our lives.

At 11:57pm on April 20th, 2008, Annabel said…: Thanks - I had looked at Tastebook. A wiki is another possibility. At present I have just set up a blog called the Librarian and the kitchen and am enjoying playing with that. I also want to get a couple of old handwritten family recipe books from my mother and try to work out what to do with those. You have really started me off now!

At 1:02am on April 18th, 2008, Annabel said…: I love TasteSpotting - it is so yummy. Thanks for posting about that.

At 2:37am on January 3rd, 2008, Rhonda said…: Hi Sandy
I used http://www.notcelebrity.co.uk/ to make the New Year sign. I have used it before as part of learning 2.0 and had my name in lights this time I just changed the text.
regards
Rhonda

At 12:53am on January 2nd, 2008, Rhonda said…: Hi Sandy
Thanks for the complaints, if you let know which widget you are referring too I will get the site address for you.
Happy New
Rhonda

At 12:01pm on July 11th, 2007, Jamie said…: Sandy - I heard back from Plaxo, but sadly what I heard is that they do not support blog feeds that originate at Ning.

You might try running your Ning RSS feed through Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) ...
1. Click Create a Pipe
2. Drag the Fetch Feed option to the working area on the right
3. Put the feed URL (from clicking the RSS link at the bottom of your Ning blog) into the box
4. Connect the Fetch Feed to the Output box. To do that, click the Fetch Feed box, hold your mouse button down and draw/drag a line to the "Output" box at the bottom.
5. Click "Save," give the Pipe a name
6. Click "Run Pipe".
7. Click Publish.
8. Click subscribe
9. Click the top option, Get as RSS.
10. Copy the URL from your address bar, plug that into Plaxo.

Based on my experiments, it should work.

That's a bit complex, I know, BUT at some point I'm sure that Yahoo! Pipes is going to be a discovery exercise, and you'll be a big step ahead when that happens.