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An ambitious project

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My development as a photographer has stalled recently. I must admit the weather here hasn’t been particularly conducive to getting outside and taking some shots of interesting things, but that’s really just an excuse. What I need is a project of some sort.

I’ve told people that I’m keen to work on my portraiture, but I’m always a little shy about asking people if I can take photos of them. What I’m going to do, then, is take photos of myself. I can’t really say no to myself. Not if I ask myself nicely, anyway.

So what I’ll be doing for the 366 days following my 30th birthday (2012 will be a leap year!) is to take a self-portrait every day. This is going to be challenging, as making 366 interesting self-portraits is going to involve a fair bit of imagination.

I won’t limit myself to any particular camera, although I have just bought some accessories for my 550D that will make self-portraiture a little easier (a gorillapod and a wireless remote!).

Now this project won’t be starting for a little under a month and I haven’t decided on some logistics, like whether I’ll post the photos to flickr or Facebook (I don’t want to spam my flickr photostream with photos of myself!). Watch this space for developments… First photo will be on the 2nd of August.

A to Z of Social Networking for Libraries

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This is the sixth post in a series produced for studying purposes. If you’re still reading, I admire your tenacity.

The A to Z of Social Networking for Library is a list produced by AnnaLaura Brown. As a task for my Social Networking unit, I have to see how a library I am familiar with (I’ll use my workplace as an example) stacks up to five entries in the list.

A is for Active

I am one of five staff members that actively contributes to our Facebook page (is it not pretty?). We are each rostered on for one day each week to make sure that the page doesn’t go stagnant – we actively look for interesting things to post. We also stand ready to respond to any inquiries from our clients.

C is for Cookie

That’s good enough for me.

D is for Direction

Admittedly, our Facebook page is mostly an experiment. We just wanted to experiment with having an additional way to communicate with our clients. I suppose you could say our direction is to play with it for a year and then figure out what do to.

F is for Facebook

Well, all I’ve mentioned so far is our Facebook page. It’s the only social networking medium we’re using that is targeted at all of our users.

T is for Text-messaging

In the past, we looked at using text messaging for a variety of purposes, but ultimately decided against it for a simple reason: cost. It would simply cost too much money to communicate in a fashion that is easily replicated by online chat and Facebook.

Z is for Zeal

My little team of Facebookers are have plenty of zeal between them to support the entire Library, I feel. I’m very happy with what they’ve done so far – in only a few short months, we’ve amassed over 300 fans. At the moment we’re getting up to 10 new fans every day.