Friday, February 25, 2011

RRS Feeds and Google Reader

This blog is for Week 3, Things 4 & 5 - RRS Feeds and Google Reader
I never got a chance to post a blog for it last week so better late than never, here goes...
I found that not that many sites have RRS feeds and finally just had to go to the RSS "feeds directory" in order to practice adding them.  I added one and not really on anything I'm interested in, couldn't even tell you what it is without going back to look, then the new "Survivor Redemption Island" started and we're playing the game here at work and we needed to check the website for something and lo and behold, I spied an orange RSS feed button.  I went through the steps of subscribing to it and adding it to Google Reader. I thought I was done and could read it in igoogle but realized I had to add it to that page as well.  Could I have skipped google reader completely and gone straight to igoogle?  Probably, so where does that leave google reader...who really uses it for what...you'd use it for ~all~ feeds and only put your favs on igoogle?

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

This blog is for Week 4, Things 6, and Thing 7 "Google Documents and Spreadsheets".
It was a short, sweet introduction and I'm sure it has wonderful potential as an office tool.
Maybe someday I'll even have something that I can use it for.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Blogging

I have never blogged before so all this is new to me. I am taking the 23 things course to become more familiar with whatever is out there. igoogle page in Thing 1 week 1 went fairly smoothly, Am now working on Week 2, Thing 2. Is there a way to drag a gadget you have placed on your home page to a tab? Does not seem like you can click or drag.  I am wanting to find the blog page where I saw Iffats name and Pat's name.  Let you know when I do.