Even More Confused

It must be clear now that I am not a techie. I can manipulate my way around the Internet, but all of the stuff we have been discussing is new to me.

I'm not sure any of it would help our organization. Then again, I'm not sure I understand a lot of it.

What I do know, is that I don't have four extra hours a week to attach a blog to our website and keep it up. Nor do we have money in our budget to pay for someone else to do it.

All of the ideas presented this week are very interesting and down the road we might consider one or two of them. But right now we are gearing up for the busiest winter we have ever had, and unfortunately anything that is not essential work is not going to get done.

I am so proud of myself! We just started an employee wellness program, and I have set up a blog for the staff to provide input.

Couldn't have done this without Community Engagement 2.0!

Well, one thing I am learning is that there is a whole lot of stuff out there that I know nothing about. I can see that once you get the hang of it, that some of these tools on Delicious might be helpful.

Are there no Canadian based sites? Nothing against our American neighbours, but I am more interested in news and events and websites that originate in Canada. That is my beef with Technorati.

It has taken me more time than I estimated to find my way around the websites we have been directed to, and has sometimes been very frustrating when I have made the same mistakes a number of times. I guess that once you become familiar with it, it becomes easier and faster.

I guess that I am just a little gunshy where Facebook is concerned. My son-in-law is a grade six teacher. Both he and my daughter had posts on Facebook. A friend uploaded a couple of pictures from their stag and doe last summer to their site. Although neither my daughter, nor my son-in-law had a drink in their hand in the picture, some of their friends did. A reporter from the Kitchener Record accessed the site and called my son-in-law in the fall, at school, demanding to know how he was fit to teach children when he clearly liked to party. The fact that the party took place in the summer, apparently had no bearing. Although the reporter never wrote the story that she threatened to, it caused a lot of hurt and upset that was totally unnecessary.

I would not consider posting anything about our non-profit on Facebook. I think that there are better ways to get the word out there, the foremost being our own website, over which we have control of the content.

The Library Thing was ok. But again, you can just spend way too much time browsing around these sites. It's a really nice day out there today, and I prefer to go for a walk rather than spend an hour communicating with people I don't know.