Jencey's Writer's Corner

 This week the topic is discussed Folksonomies and Ontologies, and their impact on social media.    They play an important role in social media.   How can they play an important role in connecting information?    My experience with folksonomies is more advanced than my experience with ontologies.  Folksonomies are the use of words to connect posts in social media together.  An example would be using a hashtag to make posts more searchable.    I have often used them her to let both the publicist and author know that I have posted a review of the book or the guest post that has been written by the author is available.  Ontologies are the study of how two items connect using a common language.  An example of this blog would be using one of my reviews that I have also posted on Amazon to help someone decide whether or not that person would want to purchase a book.  Shoppers can also grade the reviewer by how effectiv...

Hello again!  I know that it has been a while since I have posted anything.  I started graduate school in the fall of 2018 at the University of Alabama Distance Learning program.     I am studying Library Science and Information Management.  I  have read many great books in the meantime you can check my Goodreads  feed to see what I am currently reading.  I will be posting for my latest class Library Science 565.  This class will  discuss interaction of Social Media and Libraries. I began my journey with social media in 2007.   I joined Facebook through an invite by a friend.   Once I joined Facebook, I started exploring what the site had to offer.   My informatics or the information that I selected to share with others, in my profile. One of the ways I use this site is to network and meet people.  It can also be a way of learning to process what is shared over time.     Over the years I received advi...

The second book of the Nantucket Christmas series is Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand.   I love her books and how she shares the annual traditions that take place on Nantucket.   This time she brings us back for Christmas and the Quinn’s family during the Winter Stroll.   What   how eventful could one Christmas really be? Facebook   Twitter    Instagram “A second Christmas on Nantucket finds Winter Street Inn owner Kelley Quinn reflecting on the past year as he writes a holiday letter to friends and family. Though the year has had its share of misfortune and worry, the Quinns have much to celebrate. Kelley, now single, at least is on better terms with his first wife Margaret, who is using her celebrity to lure customers to the inn in record numbers. Their son Kevin has a beautiful new baby, Genevieve, with the Inn's French housekeeper, Isabelle; and their daughter, Ava, is finally dating a nice guy--her devoted colleague, Scott. Now the ...

Thank you to Goodreads and Penguin for give me a copy of Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner.   I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.   It was also a Goodreads First Read book. Imagine that you were separated from your sister and you might never see her again.   What questions might you have? Would they be something like where did she go?   How do I find her?   Is she still alive?   These questions not only included all siblings but a nation as English parents who sent their children away from the front of the war, in London.   Then the debilitating losses of the London Blitz struck and   permanently tore families apart.    Are you ready for the journey in Secrets ofa Charmed Life by Susan Meissner? Facebook      Twitter          Pinterest “Current day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a p...

I was sent a copy of The World Breaks Everyone   by Create Space Press.   I was given this book in exchange for an honest review. What happens when the world does not seem to be the way you thought?   What if the very people you referred to as family   suddenly became people   you didn’t recognize?   Then what if it happened to a teenager whose world is totally rocked   by their circumstances?   In The World Breaks Everyone by Lauren Clark,   these   circumstances describe Olivia Jacob’s   life.   Facebook                Twitter                 Pinte rest Every day, I wake up certain of only three things: I am responsible for my mother’s death. My father has vanished. Someone wants me dead. I’m on the run. It’s me against the world. I cannot let it break me. When sixteen-year-old Olivia Jaco...

Thank you to Thomas Nelson for giving me a copy of Castle on the Rise by Kristy Cambron.   I was given this copy in exchange for an honest review.   I have always wanted to travel to the United Kingdom.   Ireland would be one of the countries on my bucket list to visit.   In Castle on the Rise , readers continue with the characters that they fell in love with in The Lost Castle .   Let’s meet the next castle located in Ireland. Facebook        Twitter            Instagram “When Laine Forrester travels overseas to attend her best friend’s vineyard wedding, she expects to find the bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks, it seems the storybook lives they’d imagined are suddenly ripping apart. With hopes of resurrecting a happy ending, Laine agrees to accompany the newlyweds to the groom’s home in Ireland—never expecting she’d be the one drawn in by i...

Please welcome Milly Johnson to Writer's Corner. Today I am featuring her latest novel The MAGNIFICENT MRS. MAYHEW.  It should also be considered for your next summer read.  I have an excerpt below of this novel.    Here are what others have said about her work.  "Milly Johnson, the Queen of Feel-Good Fiction and  The   Sunday Times  bestselling author, is back with a "glorious, heartfelt novel" (Rowan Coleman,  New York Times  bestselling author) about a woman trying to find her own place in the world, who through love, loss, and the kindness of strangers, discovers everything she needs in a village by the sea. " Purchase a copy of The MAGNIFICENT MRS. MAYHEW here.    Chapter 1 DOORSTEPGATE, 11 A.M. As Sophie stood in the middle of them all, the moment strangely crystalized for her, as if time had frozen solid and she was able to study everything at leisure, appreciate how odd it was to be surrounded by ...