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A Fun One-Sentence Book Game for Twitter and Facebook!

November 16, 2009 By: smmellott Category: facebook, funny, twitter, web 2.0 No Comments →

I was looking at my Facebook and a friend of mine, Jason Summers had posted as his status “The shoes never faded all the way”.

Well, that’s interesting – what did it mean? Then I read the comments below it and Jason had commented the following:

“Rules of the game: grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
*

Yes Virginia, There IS a Clear Blue Dei blog! Stay Tuned!

November 03, 2009 By: smmellott Category: web 2.0 No Comments →

Hey all,

As you are probably aware, it has been a rather trying 1.5 years. In late 2007 I discovered that my father’s ex-wife, with whom he was still living, was misusing him and his money and from that point until this August, when he died, I have been going through lawsuits, nursing homes, medicaid, etc. in order to gain guardianship over dad and to try to recover some… Continue reading

ACPL Library Camp 2008 Part 1 – Overview

September 19, 2008 By: smmellott Category: 2.0, ACPL, learning 2.0, libraries, library, library 2.0, social networks, web 2.0 1 Comment →

This Tuesday I attended my first Library Camp at the Allen County Public Library. No, I am not a librarian, but my husband is the head of Technology at the ACPL and I have discovered through him that libraries can be very leading edge at using and incorporating the new Web 2.0 tools and at looking for new ways to connect with their patrons and to move their libraries into… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Sorry No Updates Lately – Family Emergency

December 21, 2007 By: smmellott Category: web 2.0 1 Comment →

I’m sorry I haven’t updated my blog lately.  I am in the midst of a major family emergency and have not had time to do anything else.

I will start posting again when I can.  Until then, I hope you have a happy and peaceful holiday season.

~Susan Mellott… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Users Protest and Facebook Changes its Shopping Privacy Policy

November 30, 2007 By: smmellott Category: facebook, social networks, web 2.0 No Comments →

Facebook backtracks on its latest privacy invasion tactic. After more than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition blasting Facebook’s latest changes, Facebook has changed its new advertising and marketing strategy using Beacon to gather and distribute information about purchases Facebook users were making through over 40 popular online shopping sites. Facebook said it provided 2 opportunities to opt out of having your information shared, but many people… Continue reading

Twitter Tools and News

November 09, 2007 By: smmellott Category: ACPL, tools, twitter, web 2.0 No Comments →

First of all, I’d like to give a huge shout-out the Grabill Library Branch of the ACPL who were featured in a talk that Jessamyn West  gave on 11/8/07 called What Works: More My Library, Less MySpace. If you look on slide #32, you will see a screen capture of their Grabill Branch Library blog, that shows how they successfully use the Twitter stream to promote their… Continue reading

Odiogo is Down – Odiogo Plugin Needs Temporarily Deactivated

October 21, 2007 By: smmellott Category: odiogo, outage, tools, web 2.0 No Comments →

NOTE: it is back up now. It was just down last night for a while.

I received an email from my cousin Jason who was trying to view my blog and was having trouble getting in. So I went to my blog and I too was having problems getting my blog to load, although I could get the admin screens just fine.

So obviously it was a problem… Continue reading

Life before the Internet – How did we ever do it?

September 23, 2007 By: smmellott Category: web 2.0 No Comments →

I grew up without the internet. Heck, I grew up without computers. We were never even taught about computers in high school and I was just lucky that I took a temp job entering data into a database for a huge new system that a local company was in the process of creating which expanded into reviewing the parent-child design charts and then into being accepted into their programmer trainee… Continue reading

Finding the Information Balance Between Quantity and Quality on the Web

September 19, 2007 By: smmellott Category: data, web 2.0 No Comments →

Thanks to Google, Yahoo and other Search Engines, I can find information on almost any topic I can think of. This has made a huge impact on just about everything I do.

I remember having a set of World Book encyclopedias when I was growing up and they were the be-all and end-all in just about everything I needed to research for school, for anything I was curious… Continue reading

Web 2.0: Flickr isn’t really that free – Who Knew?

September 09, 2007 By: smmellott Category: coverpop, flickr, kodak, mashups, plugin, web 2.0 2 Comments →

Flickr, the online photo gallery is THE web 2.0 tool for putting your photos online. Many people use it and it seems that most pictures you find online are stored on Flickr. There are a few other online galleries such as Shutterfly and kodakgallery (that I used because I have a digital Kodak camera that interfaces with the Kodak Gallery).

And since I’ve used Kodak Gallery mostly… Continue reading | 2 Comments

Beyond Skype: Keeping up with the Web 2.0 World

August 21, 2007 By: smmellott Category: skype, technology, web 2.0 No Comments →

Well I’m sure you all are getting as sick of the repeated speculations as to what really happened with Skype. So am I.

In many ways, it is unfortunate that so much has been written about the Skype outage, to the point that now that people are looking at it from a broader perspective, such as why did their communication fail, or how companies need to review their backup… Continue reading

Politics 2.0 – Who is Web 2.0?

August 07, 2007 By: smmellott Category: politics 2.0, web 2.0 1 Comment →

Thank you to Anonymous for writing me about this very interesting post: Dimensions of a Potentially Postponed GOP CNN/YouTube Debate .

This post was written by Alex Hammer so I looked up Alex Hammer’s bio and found: “Alex Hammer was a 2006 Independent candidate for Governor of Maine. He is the owner of Media 2.0, including Politics 2.0 (www.hammer2006.blogspot.com). Politics 2.0 focuses on “What’s now and what’s next” in… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Hello world!

July 11, 2007 By: smmellott Category: web 2.0 No Comments →

Somewhere along the way, a whole new paradigm appeared, with all the supporting jargon, acronyms, tools, languages and uses and I was busy programming business apps and missed it. Continue reading

Here I am – Where the Journey Starts…

July 10, 2007 By: smmellott Category: library 2.0, web 2.0 No Comments →

My first post in a new media for me, blogs. Continue reading


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