My PDA and Outlook Express (and Plaxo) are linked together (via software), and share information … so both have the same information on them. Whether e-mail addresses only, or street addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc., all of the information is in both my PDA and on my Outlook Express.

For me, it works very well.

A Southern Belle’s Musings

for myself. I’m trying to figure this out, too. What I’ve got going so far are some pink post-it notes by my laptop with people’s IM id’s, real names, and email addresses on it. And I’m using Gmail as my main email address, primarily because they give you so much storage space. At first, I had a folder called 43things, where I put all my messages I wanted to keep from people. Now I’ve started making individual folders for people from 43things like I do for my family and local friends. This seems to work pretty good for me. The other nice feature at Gmail is the ability to search your emails, just like you search the web with a searchengine. This has turned out to be a big help for me, especially with Listservs and other newsgroups. I subscribe to so many library -related listservs and this is the easiest way for me to find something I vaguely remember being discussed 5 months after the fact.

Gmail has a built-in contact list and they make it easy to add someone to your list. What’s really cool, too, is that when you start to write a new email, it brings you up a list of your contacts as you start to type in the “To” field. No need to open up a separate window, like in Yahoo.

Having just gotten an Ipod, however, I am thinking about putting in some of my contacts in there, which means I’ll have to use Outlook to set it up.

I’m new to making internet friends, so I don’t really have a method yet.

Librarian,
I couldn’t find you in the St. Louis Group because of your spelling of “Saint” instead of “St.”
Turns out we’re practically neighbors! In addition, my wife is a librarian!

This was the first “public” online endeavor for me. I didn’t really seek it out, it was set before me in one of my daily e-mails as a “cool site of the day.” At first, I didn’t really realize it was as public as it is, so the ice was broken pretty quickly already and I just thought, “Oh well, so this is public, no one knows my name, I can continue on…” While I choose to keep most information about me private, I’m loosening up a lot. As you see, I’ve revealed some information like part of my name and my closest “major” city. So, I think it’s a comfort zone thing as well.

And, as with “real life,” I think there are no “set” rules. People in “real life” don’t all share the same views and have the same rules. So, I believe there may be even more diversity for our “on-line lives.” All one can do is be really smart about what they do/ask/answer on-line. My common personal “real life” and “on-line life” philosophy is “Be respectful of others.” You can’t go wrong with that one.

By the way, good luck with your school! :)

sometimes we know people better online. We escape some kind of invisible cloak we wear in person. I for one find this true with people I know from the internet. They are more honest about deeper more personal things, than if we met in person. Most of us use chit chat to get to know someone in person….where do you live, where did you go to school. Online…its more about who we actually are. What we want from life, what wewant to give back, what we love and hate, where we want to go, our goals…etc. That usually takes more time, in person. Does that make sense?