Blurry, pram and roller coaster

Had some fun tagging works from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum with their tagging game. It's a great initiative. Good for the collection management system, but also a great way of getting museum/website visitors involved and feel more connected to the museum. The presentation of the tag cloud was nice to see and brouwse through. I always try to click on words that are not so large in a tag cloud, to see where that takes me. Hopefully not where the majority of people go. I need to add more tags to articles on www.incca.org. Often I am in such a rush to get things posted that I don't get around to it. Just added a tag cloud to my blog. It was so easy and looks great. I'm starting to get addicted to blogging I fear...

RSSing

I now get it. RSS is indeed a useful thing. What I am not yet used to however is the Google Reader. Some how I seem to forget how to find it. You need to log in to iGoogle first and then...I can probably customise my iGoogle account so that my reader is on the first page, but I just haven't gotten around to that yet. The good thing about Google Reader is that you can access it online. I also put a few feeds in my Explorer brouwser to see the difference. I found this a much easier process by the way, however the brouwser I have at work is of course not the same as at home. I guess you could have different feeds at home than at work, but sometimes I work at home...so in the end the access-it-anywhere Google Reader is a better option.
I am considering putting an RSS button on www.incca.org. I have the feeling however that my readers prefer the INCCA Updates (newsletters) I send. This is an email which goes directly to an individuals inbox with a collection of the latest news items and links to the website for more information. It is perhaps a bit old fashioned, but one advantage is that over the years I have built up a very large email mailng list; I know exactly who my readers are. Is it possible with RSS to know who is receiving RSS updates from your site? Also, I know that a lot of my readers are not all that internet savvy and are likely not to even use RSS feeds.

Hyves vs Facebook

For the first assigment I visited my Hyves account, which I have had for some years now but hardly ever use. The main reason I guess is that it is in Dutch and also I have always found it difficult to navigate. To my surpise I noticed that the layout has changed quite dramatically and it now looks and seems to function more like it's big rival Facebook. My facebook account on the other hand has proved a great way for me to keep in touch with my family in various countries and to find old highschool classmates from Perth. I must say I really enjoy brouwsing though pictures of friends who I haven't seem in person for 15 to 20 years. We are all getting older and fatter. A lot are married and have children too and some have moved abroad like myself. Before leaving on a work trip to ther US a few years ago I managed to get in contact using Facebook, with my very first boyfriend (from when I was 13) who moved to Los Angeles when he was 18. We met up for a few hours and he drove me up and down the coast a bit. It was great fun.

My first blog

Despite having created a few websites and currently being reponsible for the upkeep of www.incca.org, www.inccamembers.org and www.inside-installations.org, this is my first blog. It was easy to set up, although I am still going to have to experiment a bit to make it more personal; add pictures and tweak the layout etc.
You may be thinking, why is her blog in English? Well, English is my mother language and the websites I look after are all in English too. So, to avoid loads of Dutch typos, and to save time I thought I would keep it simple.
I'm really glad to be able to join the ICN group in this course '17 things for museums'. I have some catching up to do before our meeting on Thursday.