Week 2

I am a little bit behind, so this week 2 post is coming on the first day of week 3. I have had previous experience with google reader, delicious, and google alerts before. However, my use of these tools had fallen to the wayside because I didn't have enough knowledge about them to make them easier to use. For example, I had a couple feeds in my Google Reader. However, I never used it because I was too lazy to go through all of the posts. Organizing the feeds into folders has greatly helped me, and I think (and hope) that I will use Google Reader a lot more now that it is more organized. Earlier in the year I had started Delicious and found that it was extremely helpful with managing all of my bookmarks on job postings and advice. However, recently I have been using the browser Google Chrome more than Firefox. The add on for Google Chrome is not as easy to use as the Firefox one. It is very easy to Tag websites, but I haven't been able to figure out how to view my tags and bookmarks without logging into Delicious. I am still working on figuring this out.

Since I am familiar with Google Alerts I decided to try out Social Mention. It was interesting viewing the results from this kind of search. Especially interesting are the one line statuses or comments from Facebook. To obtain accurate results I had to put quotes around the library where I work at (the Aurora Public Library). I also realized that I needed to add Illinois to the search because there is more than one Aurora Public Library. I guess this post will now show up in Social Mention!