Evaluation

Flickr has become somewhat of a hobby for me. You are welcome to visit my Photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/sandy-lea/

My account is now 'Pro', so I get interesting statistics on visits to my photos. I was interested to know where the visitors were from so I installed a Map counter. But I've found it to be inaccurate. I'm receiving comments from Flickr users from around the globe, but the map counter had only recorded hits from Australia. I've now installed a different Flag counter and also added it to my Facebook account. It seems to be recording the same data from both Facebook and Flickr on each site rather than visits only to Flickr and visits only to Facebook. So I'm not satisfied with this one either, perhaps I will install another.

I'm not interested in a Twitter counter because I really don't Tweet that much, rather I use Twitter for looking at news on breaking stories.

I set up a survey not on Survey Monkey but on my Google Docs account. Also free and simple to use, I found this to be really good and all of my respondents were happy to oblige without fear. I would recommend this is a survey tool.

A Feedburner account has now been set up on my blog. We'll see how that goes.

More on Delicious

Twitter

I joined Twitter back in March 2009. Don't use it regularly. It's interesting to follow very current news happenings and then link to further reading.

It's probably more suited to those who have a screen in front of them most of the day and they can flick over to Twitter to view updates.

I follow BBC, ABC, CNN. Used to follow ALIA, but wasn't very interested in their Tweets (sorry alia). I am being followed by a few randoms.

Just read about linking Flickr to Twitter, but decided that I don't want to do that.

Tweet me: sandylea

NINGS

Well, I'd never heard of a 'Ning' before. Now I am a member of the Library 2.0 Ning, evne have my own page with dp & uploaded a pic of the my local library. It was interesting to view the long list of groups with this Ning. Seemingly, something for everyone! Also had a look at the other Nings mentioned including Mossmon & Museum. Some of the photos being shared I don't believe give a positive promotion.

I search for a directory of Nings. Found one, but it wasn't real good, I'm sure there would be a better directory. Any suggestions?? Thought it would be interesting to join another Ning but am yet to descover one that genuinely appeals to me. So I'll keep searching!

Using Flickr has been fun

2.1

Just starting 2.1 learning!

So it has been over a year since I last posted a blog. But I have been using some of the tools that I learnt about during the 2.0 course.

Using Flickr has been of great interest to me and has enable me to have some of my photography recognised internationally.

I feel a bit rusty and have ahd to re-navigate my way around this blog, but it's all coming back.

It's interesting to discover how much I do know and how much I don't know about different things I've been studying. I'm sure this program will be no different.