Thing # 6 - Google Advanced Searching

Challenge six was very informative on the proper way to search the database that you want, without having to filter through a lot of sites that you did not want.

I searched the underground railroad by only searching .navy.mil sites and I found a training power point on the subject. I also searched NASCAR using only .gov sites and found the article that the 2008 Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson was hosted at the White House by President Obama.

While I don't do much searching for external customers, I do a lot for internal customers and this challenge will help. Not to mention that it is great for doing searches for writing papers.

Thing # 5 - Google Power User

For this challenge I picked google maps. The satellite photos on the maps are pretty neat. Also, I found the "Geniuses at Play, on the Job" article very informative.

Thing # 4 - RSS

I found this challenge to be extremely helpful. I ended up subscribing to two different RSS feeds. I will most likely subscribe to more as I go along, now that I know how.

Thing # 3 - Web 2.0 Awards

The two sites that I visited as part of this challenge were docstoc.com and myheritage.com.

Docstoc.com was an education site for looking up various educational topics such as History and Literature. I found this website to be rather difficult to navigate, but it did have a lot of information. You just had a wait a while for it to download.

Myheritage.com is a Genealogy site. It was easy to navigate and I even found a posting that my sister did last year about our family by searching for my mother. The down side to this site is that their are not a lot of people registered to it.