The following link is to an article on how libraries are using the social networking site Pinterest to their advantage – some good ideas among them.
For more, visit:
http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/03/12/20-great-ways-libraries-are-using-pinterest/
How to Use Pinterest for Quotes
The link below is to a website that allows you to highlight any text and pin it to a Pinterest board. There is a small cost for using the service. The site provides a video on how it works and also examples of how people use it. Pinterest is becoming even more useful.
For more visit:
http://pinaquote.com/
This is just a short message to say that I’m closing my account at Shelfari. Why am I doing this:
Anyhow, that is basically it I think. The only think left is to mention the sites I am at:
I am about to start using a new web application called BookYap. Put simply, BookYap is an application that recommends books based on criteria you enter. There are over 650 000 books in its database, so chances are it will find a book for you.
You can search for a book by using keywords or the filters it has available (based on personality types). By becoming a registered user, the application learns more and more about you and your reading habits, improving the recommendations it makes for you.
Books appear with thumbnails of their covers and book ratings. A brief description appears by hovering over the thumbnail. You are able to interact with the application and associated community by sharing books you have read and your reviews of them. There is connectivity with both Facebook and Twitter also.
You are also able to add books to a reading wishlist if you like. Books can be purchased from Amazon when you choose a book to read.
Visit BookYap at:
http://bookyap.com/
Today’s suggestion is a rather simple one – to simply put up a small ‘light sign’ to get a message across and raise awareness of an issue. The issue could be ‘peace’ of ‘save trees.’
The message is communicated by making the word/s using a string of lights (fairy lights, etc) and hanging them outside of the house.
This idea is not one I’ll be following up – I’ll do my bit for the environment and not do this one. However, spreading a message via a string of lights can be done – or it could be done by a piece of chalk as with the word ‘eternity,’ by Arthur Stace in Sydney.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/stace.htm
A response to reading ‘365 Ways to Change the World,’ by Michael Norton
At the BookShelf 