Now, Let Me Share My Expertise

I find it funny that part of the assignment encourages tagging of your entry, but the lesson on tagging is later! Learn on the spot, I suppose. And I probably did it wrong anyway, because I typed in some keywords and they don’t link to anything like I’ve seen tags on other websites do.
Much as I like to say some of the books I read are great and others should read them, I find it hard putting into words why someone should read my book. And that doesn’t even take into account that I have to limit myself to one favorite book when I have so many books that would fall into that category. So this exercise wasn’t too bad except that I had to write a short blurb about my favorite book. Ironically, I think writing that blurb took the most time in this exercise (Certainly more than writing this blog did!).

I found it daunting to be a contributor and add an entry. I feel slightly concerned that I’m doing it wrong when there aren’t a lot of instructions either. So when I finally took a deep breath and clicked on the “Edit this Page” button, I found it surprisingly easy, though I wasn’t sure if I the entries were alphabetical because we Library people are conscientious enough to organize our favorite authors that way or if the entries were automatically sorted. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I didn’t have to format my entry, because while I was searching for a way to format my entry to look like everyone else’s, the text was formatted while I wasn’t looking!

It’s scary how easy it is to add and edit entries. Hmm, does this mean anyone could go around editing all the other entries? If the Library uses wikis, I think guidelines would be needed concerning adding, editing and deleting entries. It’s amazing that a lot of people could add their input, but then who goes around verifying that the information is accurate?