I've been so busy over the last few months that I haven't posted anything new here. When I started this blog and two others, my goal was to post at least twice a month. However, as you can tell by the dates on my post this hasn't happened. In fact, I'm behind on another blog I write titled, Parenting the Gamer Generation at http://www.kidsgotgame.blogspot.com/.
What happened? you may ask. This is what happened: life, kids, new house, more volunteer work, coaching upward soccer, joined the Holmberg Art Leadership Institute, started working at my father's driving range again and other things I can't remember now. There is also my job. It takes my time too.
In addition to these activities I do try to keep up with web 2.0 tools. I do this mostly through my iPhone. After leaving the Art Institute meeting I stopped for lunch. While I waited for lunch, I posted to Twitter and Facebook about community projects that I hoped would be taken up by Chattanooga State students.
I'd love to see the social media class use Foursquares to document the public art sculptures around town. I would be thrilled to read an article by a Chattanooga State Communicator reporter on the Hart Gallery and the art lessons they line up for the homeless.
The social media or broadcasting class could invite the CreateHere non-profit to speak in class on how they use social media to post videos on Chattanooga residents. Have you seen the work they post on YouTube? Before I sign off here, I want to encourage my readers to go online and google Chattanooga. See what I've been researching. Type Chattanooga + YouTube, Google, Facebook, Foursquares and Twitter.
I bet you didn't know half of what you see.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Mobile Blogging
Image from Blogger.com blogspot.Since having my iPhone, I've been able to do a lot of my work and social connecting on the go. Some of my favorite apps include TweetDeck, Google Calendar and Gmail. I use TweetDeck to check on my tweets and Facebook comments. I use the Google calender and gmail to keep up with correspondence and appointments.
I love the mobility of my iPhone and decided to try out mobile blogging. I tried the go.blogger.com version first but it wanted me to set up a new Mobile blog from my phone. What I wanted turned out to be in my existing blogger accounts. My goal for mobile blogging was not to add another blog to the four I have, but to post to already existing blogs from my current blogger account.
If you want to try mobile blogging with an existing account, change your settings through that blog. You'll need to create an address to send your post. I also set mine to send the post as a draft so I could edit it before publishing it.
If you want to create a mobile blog right from your phone, check out this link to learn how to do it. It has a How-to video.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Creating a 3D Chattanooga with SketchUp on Google Earth
Sometimes it is just fun to see what local talent are doing with web 2.0 tools. Chattanooga has several locals working together to put Chattanooga in 3D on Google Earth. This is something you have to see for yourself. You can check out the 3D warehouse for Chattanooga Buildings already on the map or see them on Google earth. Go to "Whose Doing What" if you want to see the buildings in progress and to find unclaimed buildings. Instruction for claiming a building can be found in "Whose Doing What" too. SketchUp is a free downloadable application. Straight forward tutorials show SketchUp being used on the SketchUp website. More tutorials can be found on YouTube and the SketchUpVideo's Channel. I hope Google is planning a mobile app for this. It would be entertaining on vacations to use my iphone and SketchUp to make my own 3D models.
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