Friday, July 31, 2009
It's time to say goodbye so soon...
The most challenging thing for me was to remember to make the time to read the background info and instructions and not just jump in. The odd time when I did jump in, I ended up floundering around and it took twice as long -- much better to do a little reading or watch a tutorial.
The self-directed model was awesome! Even though I felt guilty when I would miss a week, it was great to be able to power through the lessons when I had the time without having to wait for more details or instructions. It was especially great since I'm preggers and wanted to make sure I completed the course before the baby came! (Oh dear... hope I'm not plowing through Betty Blogger as some form of pre-delivery nesting?!)
This course absolutely opened up the doors to the world of social media as a great introduction. In order for me to use it more for work, I think I would need more training on how to relate it to the corporate world, but it was definitely a great intro.
I would absolutely recommend the course to friends and colleagues if they didn't have much expertise in this field.
Thanks Library Lady... excellent work!
Library Thing
I liked Library Thing cause it was really easy to use and got me excited about reading again. I found myself finding more books that I like to read. It's like when I go to Chapter's website and use their recommendation tool -- why doesn't the library catalogue work like that?!
I will totally use this again. It was fun.
Feed me!
I think I'll for sure keep using Google Reader, especially because it was so easy to use. My only concern would be getting bogged down with too many feeds (I can see that it would be easy to get carried away signing up for feeds that look interesting!).
All this picnic talk makes me glad it's the long weekend!
PBWiki was super easy to use so that was great! I'm still trying to wrap my head around why I would use a wiki instead of email. At least with email I don't have to go into a new program, it just comes straight to me. I guess if I got into it then it wouldn't seem like extra work.
I can see using my own wiki at some point -- maybe for planning those big trips to the cottage that have now grown to more than 23 people!
Ingredients
Wowie Maui Chicken
Ingredients
4 Boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, cut into 1-inch cubes
2-1/2 cups Low-sodium, reduced-fat chicken broth
1 can (14oz) pineapple tidbits in juice, undrained
1-1/2 cups Uncooked long grain white or brown rice
3/4 cup Finely chopped carrots
1/2 cup Each chopped sweet red and green pepper
1/3 cup Ketchup
2 tbsp Each brown sugar, reduced-sodium soy sauce, and white vinegar
2 cloves Garlic, minced
3/4 cup Chopped green onions
Preparation
Spray a large saucepan with non-stick spray. Add chicken. Cook over medium-high heat until no longer pink.
Add remaining ingredients except green onions. Stir well. Bring to a boil. reduce heat to medium-low. cover and simmer for 25 minutes, until rice is tender (if using brown rice, make sure it is the quicker-cooking variety, but not instant). Stir occasionally.
Stir in green onions during the last five minutes of cooking time. Serve immediately.
Photo madness!
The only tag on the photo I sent you was penguin (guess he's not that creative). What do you call a baby penguin?
Picasa was pretty good and I could see it's usefulness, but I use to use Facebook to share my photos with people and that way I have more control over who sees what. I could see it being useful in my career to try to find images for ideas on how to stage photo shoots, but I really like the glamour shots more than the regular ones and would get more use out of a stock photo site.
I think I probably won't use Picasa to post my own photos, but might use it every once in a while for fun. And it's good to know about.
I'm not really concerned about the privacy aspect of facebook, because I don't post anything I would worry about anyone seeing and if I don't know someone I don't accept their friend request.
I'll probably keep using Facebook after Betty Blogger, but I have such a hard time uploading pictures at home, I don't know how up-to-date it'll be.