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BookArmy Updates & Contests

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Book Army

Just got my September BookArmy newsletter and had to share some of this news with all of you. If you aren’t a member of BookArmy yet, you should really check it out. I think it has just enough social networking options to be fun, without becoming overwhelming (like you need another Facebook, Myspace, or whatever account that ends up really being mostly another email account to check every day). I tend to get a lot of messages there, most of which are “read my book” type of junk. I haven’t yet found a way to control that, but I imagine there are settings available or will be soon. BookArmy is still in Beta, so we will definitely see changes there over time. For example, they’re working on allowing you to get BookArmy feed updates, like when you’re invited to join a group, via your Myspace, Facebook, or Twitter pages.

You’re here for the good stuff though, right? September is Food Month at BookArmy, so they’re offering a lot of food-related goodies to their members.  Free recipes, downloads, interviews, prizes, and quizzes and competitions to win free books. Of course you can follow @Bookarmy for twit-updates. If you’re already at BA or you decide to sign up today, swing by my profile and add me. Right now I only have four friends, so it’s a pretty lonely “book army” for me.

One Million Pages Needs Your Help

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Some of you may not know that I am a Project Manager with One Million Pages. I first mentioned One Million Pages in a post in February, here. When I became a project manager, I posted again about OMP and our Twitter page @OneMillionPages. If you follow us on Twitter, then you already know we have some BIG changes coming soon. We are planning a total overhaul of the website. The site currently allows you to log in and send us your page count. I actually recieve those messages and tally them up in a spreadsheet for the monthly totals. There isn’t a real community within the website and that is an issue we want to address. In an effort to help non-readers get excited about reading, help groups have a meeting place to share their goals and accomplishments, and encourage avid readers to read more and meet each other, we will be launching a whole new site in the near future.

This is why we need your help. If you could take a few minutes to fill out this breif survey, it will help us learn what YOU want out of the website. Essentially we want to know how you’d like to use One Million Pages, what you want to see there, and what would make it the best site for you. You won’t have to sign up for anything and taking the survey won’t put you on a mailing list or anything like that. We basically just want your input so we can roll out your favorite features first. If you have anything specifc you’d like to tell us in your own words, you can email the OMP team through this contact form or at onemillionpages@artistoftomorrow.org. We’d love to hear from you!

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Shelfari vs. Google Library

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I’m a Shelfari user. I don’t know if I’d say I’m crazy about the site because I really only use it to catalog my books. I visit the site about once a month. It is technically a social networking site, though (self-proclaimed, “premier social networking site for people who love books”). I do use my account to feature My Shelf on Myspace and Facebook profiles. Anyone interested in connecting can find me here on Shelfari. Aside from a few recent book purchases, you can also see every book I own. I took the time to put in every single ISBN and in a few cases had to dig around (old books that didn’t have ISBNs). I like it. I like the hominess of the site, the community. That said, I like the clean look of Google Library and I already use so freaking many Google products, that it would be nice to have them all interconnected. I haven’t yet added anything to my Google Library, but like all things Goog, I automatically have a library. I could go on a tangent here about Google-addiction, but I won’t. I’m sure that by this point in time, everyone out there can feel my pain love for Google. Here’s my very empty library. You can use Google Book Search to find a library in use. One major plus I noticed with Google Library is that you can type or import a list of ISBNs instead of adding each book to library one at a time. I can tell you, that is incredibly time consuming. I couldn’t find that feature in Shelfari, but with Shelfari you can actually import your Amazon Wishlist or other book lists from a URL. You can also import txt files with your list of books. For now, I plan on sticking with Shelfari, but I may just fill up the Google Library and really give it a chance to defend itself.

Which do you use? If you don’t use anything, tell me why not.