I have been continuing to work on my own personal digital footprint and have be updating and tweaking my non-course blog in response to ideas and thoughts that I have had while listening to the 10 Minutes of Fame presentations.
Todays take aways for me had to do with using widgets. Blogger has a number of widgets that you can add to your Blog, just as we can here in UBC blogs. however I have been trying to increase my interconnectivity so have used the in-app widget creator in Twitter to generate a widget that will enable people to see me recent Twitter feed and follow or Tweet me. I have allow used the HTML feature to add widgets from Bloglovin’ (the Reader that I have adopted to replace Google Reader), and after todays discussion of Shelfari I have also captured a Goodreads widget, though in this image you can’t see it because it requires flash and I was using my iPad for the screenshot. I am trying to embed to Shelfari version with those cool shelves too but am still working on it.
Having my contact information (or at least a way for me to be tweeted) there is new thing for me. Having my email on my class website was different because I didn’t really feel as exposed to the wider World Wide Web there like only particular people who sought out my class website would find that link. Being more open in this social media kind of way is a strange and new feeling for me. This is far from where I was last week, feeling like I was anti-social. I guess my next step is to start using Goodreads and Shelfari more socially, by joining groups and discussions.
I am also interested in further exploring the advice that UBC gives its students regarding their own digital self at http://digitaltattoo.ubc.ca/