Web addresses

Add this link to your favorites -

www.tinyurl.com

This is a nifty way to take those big long URLs (web addresses), and turn them into short, easy to work with addresses.

For example, someone wants the link to information about the Earned Income Tax Credit on the IRS web site. You can tell them to go to www.irs.gov and look for the link. Or you can give them the link

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=130102,00.html?portlet=7

Or you can go to tinyurl, paste address into the Make it Tiny box and give them

http://tinyurl.com/auchye

This especially useful for emails or other text forms where the link could get broken by inaccurate text wrapping.

Try it yourself.

Unemployment Benefits

This website has links to applying for benefits on line, as well other information about Unemployment Compensation in Pennsylvania:

Unemployment Compensation:Individual Services

logging on

As Becky, mentioned, Gretchen confirmed, and Elaine was able to do, you do not need a google account to get set up on the blog. Use whatever you consider your regular email, (see Cathy's post below for one suggestion) and use that to set up your own password. Caroline and Karen - you should be able to use one of the branch addresses to do this.

Also, remember to start labeling your posts. It's natural language, no set names necessary. I will work on getting the cloud or list set up.

Adult Sellers

I have set up a general udreference@delco.lib.pa.us post for the adultref (also password) @ Sellers for anyone that does not want an individual posting option. Might make sharing easier for all of us especially if you are sitting at the ref. desk. All blogs for UDLibraries are saved in the favorites on this computer.

Logging on

Using Gretchen's suggestion I was able to log on. (When I checked this, the time is wrong. It is 3 hours behind.)

good idea!

We really do need better communication.  I feel like I am always guessing about things I should already know about.  Now the trick will be remembering to use the blog.

You've Been Invited!

You should have receieved, or will soon receive, an invitation to this blog. I assume (but don;t really know) that there where will be a link to the blog included. If you'll be at tomorrow morning's meeting, you'll here more about this,. If not, check back here tomorrow afternoon for more details on why I think we're going the blogging route as opposed to other social bookmarking options.