iGene Awards for 2008

Announcing some of the best of the best for the iGene Awards for postings in 2008. In several categories, there were several nominees, so it was a difficult decision.



For best biography, the award goes to Women's History Month Salutes featuring Emily Lily Iles nee Dudley. I was able to tell about her life and show photographs of her from different time periods.



For best picture, the award goes to the photo of our family at Sauble Beach in the article Bathing Beauties? Although it is not a real old photo, it is still special (okay it is from more than fifty years ago). The photo reminds me of the fun we had at our cottage.

For best documentary of a place, the award goes to the Kemble Women's Institute Parkette.

Although. it is a place that my sister and I visited just last year, it is a reminder of a day trip we took where we had fun visiting the parkette, going to an Art show in a garden and having lunch at a restaurant in Wiarton.

This has been written for the 66th edition of the Carnival of Genealogy

Del.icio.us

I reviewed the different items in the OSNGUPL account and discovered that many had been bookmarked by other users. I found the comments could be helpful to users.
For people who used more than one computer, having their bookmarks available no matter where they were would be extremely helpful.

I decided to create my own account. Adding the del.icio.us and tag bookmarklets to my Internet browser only took a couple of minutes. I had to wait about 10 minutes for the e-mail that autheticated my account. I decided to export my current favorites and then import them into del.icio.us. This was easy as the instructions were clear. This took a few minutes as I have over 500 bookmarks. I like that the default is that all bookmarks are private until you make them available to be shared. It will take me awhile to go through "my favorites" I forgot what some of them were so a click on the heading takes you to the site. When I imported them it used the folder headings as tags. I added some comments and more tags.

If you are logged on to del.icio.us you can tag other sites manually.