As an avid blogger (Not!) I found myself excited to be keeping a blog. It is something I have talked about doing in the past but never took the time. I do not even read many blogs to be honest, even though I have several friends who are consistent bloggers. I have always been the Facebooker (Not!). No Facebook, No MySpace, no social networking of any sort in college. I did not even have a Twitter account until this class. As much as I use Facebook to communicate with friends today I cannot believe I held off for so long. I love using Facebook! In fact a reason (and one that I thought was very viable) that I didn't blog was that everyone should be perfectly happy with my little quips on Facebook.
So for this class I am going to test blogging out. So far (except for one bug where I had lost everything I typed on Thing #1) it has been fairly easy. It might be my knowledge of technology or it might be that Blogger has made it easy. Its powered by Google and I love it! I usually am not creative with the names of things (Ms. Watson) but the minute I heard the blog was about things I thought of Julie Andrews singing "My Favorite Things." I have a not so secret love of musicals of which The Sound of Music is no undoubtedly at the top of. Singing in the Rain is the very top.
My avatar is as close to me as I could get with the Doppleme program. I was not about to pay for anymore...I have no idea what you call the things that make it different. I figured if I was suppose to be using this with my career eventually I better be a little serious about this. I also have the freedom to change it so we'll see where I go with it.
It's so funny that you mentioned the ability to change the avatar and the need to make it look professional. I feel the same way. The first avatar I made looked very much like the way I usually look/dress. The avatar that is on my blog now has been 'professionalized' - gone are the blue jeans and boots and in their place are a skirt and some pumps.
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