Thing 23 One Last Thing

I am happy that I decided to stick with 23 Things. I often had trouble downloading items. I had a 20's something libarian help and she couldn't figure out why it didn't work. I feel that I learned something from each of the things.
I completed the survey and emailed metronet that I had finished.
I hope to go back to my blog and spruce it up!
Thanks to everyone who put this together.

Thing 22 Staying Current

I hope to spend 15 minutes a day doing 1 of the 23 Things. I breezed over some things, but I think I learned something new when I was doing each thing.
I signed up at Web Junction and will get their monthly updates.
I will check Bloglines daily. I hope to go back and more fully do some things.

Thing 21 Social Networking

I joined Ning and left comments for another member.
I looked over social networks and joining another network seems overwhelming for me right now.





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Thing 20 Libraries and Social Networks

I watched the Video-so funny!
I watched the tutorial. Common Craft does a good job. Their one on Wiki was also good.
I registered on Facebook, set up my profile, joined 2 groups-Libraries Using Facebook and 23 things on a stick. I wrote on the first's wall.
I browsed MySpace and looked at HCL Myspace Page. I see they have links to their programs and many, many friends.

On to Thing 21!

Thing 19 Podcasts

I listened to several. One source took too long to load.
Mankato one was all graphics-pretty cool.
I linked MPR's classical music podcast to my blog reader account.

Thing 18 Youtube

I watched March of the Librarians. Reminded me of PLA last week. I didn't spot the MN librarian.

Minnesota Library 2.0 Thing 16 and 17

Thing 16 Calendar
I looked at the calendars and wished I had these back when I was in school.

Thing 17 ELM
We have the 5 Ebsco databases on our computers for the patrons.
I will get one of them on my RSS feed after I finish 23 Things.

Thing 15 On-line Games in Libraries

I watched the Second Life video. I never even heard of Second Life until I heard Joseph Janes at PLA. Now I have seen what he was talking about.
It would be nice to have gaming at the library, but there are more basic things we need first.

Thing 13 and Thing 14 Online Productivity Tools

Thing 13 and Thing 14

I set up a Library Thing account but I couln't get it to my blog. I will use this instead of paper for keeping a list of the books I have read. I see more uses for it also.

I also created a TaDa list. I didn't like Backpack but I do not like doing anything that may cost money.
I hope to keep using both of these after 23 things is over. Right now I am trying to just get finished.

Thing 12 Do you Digg

I put a New York Times article on Digg.
I have seen the Share button before and now I know what it does.

Thing 11 Tagging and del.ico.us

I tagged my Thing 9 and 10 blog with 2 tags.
I looked over Mixx, Digg, Newvine and Reddit
Mixx was arranged by stories, Digg by most recent. I was surprised to see that Newsvine had advertising. Reddit has tabs-Hot, New, Browse and Stats.
I think in the future I may use these.

Thing 9 and 10 Collaboration

I wasn't able to edit in Gov Docs. I read about the ideas.
I don't think the Founding Fathers would be happy about us editing their work.

I added an enty to the the 23 Things on a Stick wiki. It was the first thing I was able to do since I spelled something with Flickr.
I watched all the wiki presentations. I liked the Library Success: A Best Practices wiki. It had some good ideas for programs. At Anoka County we have a wiki set up for many kinds of booklists.

Thing 7 and 8 Communication Tools

I read and watched the videos of email, IM and text messaging. I am familiar with all of those.
Email has greatly helped our system of 10 libraries and 1 administratiave building.
Phone calls seems as effective as IM and text messaging.
I read about web conferencing and will try to take part in a Webinar.
I signed up for a 23 things on a Stick google group.

Thing 6 Online Image Creator

I made a trading card but could not get on my blog.
I decided I spent too much time already so I am moving on
to next "Thing".

Thing 5-More Fun with Flickr

I spelled Thing 5 with spellflickr

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Thing 4-Flickr

I spent several hours on Flickr. I uploaded the picture and even made a new icon.
I attached tags and it looked like it worked. But when I went to search it I could not find it.
After spending an hour or so searching and adapting I have decided to give up and move on.
I also decided I had to write down all the user names and passwords I have created.
It was fun browsing Flickr-it looks like some people use it for their on-line photo albums.

Thing 3 Learn about RSS

My aggregator is set up using Bloglines.
I picked a few sites.
I will be checking to see how it works out.

Thing 2 What is Web2

I enjoyed Steve Abram’s positive attitude. I liked his idea of getting the human beings back into the information world. I know about instant messaging, MySpace and Facebook, but then I lost him on other things. Steve states that we have to do things to really understand them and I think that is what 23 Things will do for me. I believe that I will find time to complete the 23 Things.
I am unsure how our library is going to accept L2 but I hope my understanding of it will improve my professional life.
I found the formula Library 2.0=(books n’ stuff” + people + radical trust) x participation from the article “Ongoing Web Revolution” very interesting because of the trust piece. You don’t hear “trust” very often in library circles. This will truly be a “revolution”.

Thing 1 Set Up Your Blog

I have finally completed all parts of Thing 1.
Building an avatar was fun but a little harder than just creating the blog.
Now on to Thing 2!

Thing 1

Well this was pretty simple.
And I finally have a Google Account!
Let's see if I can back to this blog to post more!