Westminster 23 Things - thing #4 using photos, images and Flickr

Image by Emma Woods, all rights reserved.

This week's task is to create a Flickr account. I've used Flickr to find images but never to share my own (I tend to use Facebook for sharing photos with friends and family). I already had a yahoo ID so it was very quick and simple to set up my account.

I've uploaded a few photos of my Nile Cruise holiday earlier this year. See them at http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodsemma For now, I've decided not to share them through a creative commons license.

I was inspired by a post on Twitter to join the Guardian's Green shoots Flickr group http://www.flickr.com/groups/guardiangreenshoots/ This provides me with a great excuse to go photo taking around Wandsworth Common tomorrow instead of writing an essay about Egypt and Nubia :)

Westminster 23 Things - #3 RSS feeds

The third 'thing' in the 23 Things programme is RSS feeds. I'd already subscribed to some using Google Reader but this was an opportunity to review my selection, deleting and adding subscriptions as necessary. As part of this, I've subscribed to all the feeds from others at Westminster who are participating in 23 Things.

The task is to write a reflective blog post telling about an item of interest from your reader. The one I've chosen comes from Sheila Webber's Information Literacy weblog and concerns a survey about Informs and the Virtual Training Suite. As you may be aware, they will not be funded for much longer, and the survey explores options on alternative ways they could continue e.g. through subscription. I think the Virtual Training Suite is an excellent resource and it will be shame if it isn't updated or developed after next year.

You can see the blog post at http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/09/informs-survey.html

You can complete the survey at http://www.snapsurveys.com/swh/surveylogin.asp?k=128524501923 (ends 6th Oct)

23 Things

Westminster has recently launched 23 things, a way to get staff up to speed with web 2.0 (thing #2 is blogs, hence this post!).

The blog documenting the scheme is at http://academicliaison.wordpress.com/

Thing #1 was widgets.