I'm Done with all 23!!

Here goes the last one! I've really enjoyed doing the 23 things, and now I'll have to find some other sites to keep me learning about these things. My favorite finds from this process have been the podcasts, webinars, and photo things. I will be using the bighugelabs and flickr site for sure, I'm a huge photo person and I was really excited about these. I would definitely participate in another 23 things if there is one.

Keeping up with 2.0 - 22

Now that I'm almost done with the 23 things it is kind of bittersweet. I love to learn new things available online. I'm the one at work who gets really excited about a cool new site and ends up peer pressuring others (in a nice way) to try it out. I like to show others how to use different tools and new things, and I like to learn with other people (thus the peer pressure). I don't feel like I need a "resolution" to stay on top of 2.0 things, but I will make more of a conscious effort to learn new things rather than waiting for new things to come to me. I think one per week, rather than the suggested 15 minutes per day, works best for me. That way I'll spend my extra time during that week learning everything I can about the new tool or site, and trying out everything I can think of with it.

More Social things 21

• Are you a member of any online communities? Other than being on facebook and myspace, I'm not a member of any communities online. At least, none like I was finding on ning.
  
• Are any of these social networks appealing to you? I found ning really interesting. I could see creating a group with classmates or work cohorts or other groups that either are working together or just like to hang out. For example, on Sunday mornings my husband and I have a group we meet at a Starbucks (kind of our "Sunday school" but very informal). Currently we send mass emails to each other to let people know about other things going on, but having a ning site would make this so much more convenient.
  
• What did you find that was interesting and that you might use later? A few networks on Ning looked interesting, though I haven't joined any yet. One was Library Youth and Teen Services 2.0.

Social Networking 20

I've been on facebook for several years now. I was an undergrad when the site began as a college based social site, and signed up then. While I'm on both facebook and myspace, I rarely use myspace anymore. It was the site that my friends who had not gone to college were on, and that was my primary reason for having a page on there. Now, everyone is able to have a facebook page and thus, I don't need to go to myspace :)

My reasons for liking facebook over myspace:

• I can access it from the library. (myspace was blocked by our library system)
• Less spam.
• Less virus threat.
• Don't have to worry about making my page "look cool"
• I don't have to worry about what random images or adds that are posted to my comments/wall
• The list pretty much ends there...

The library and Social Networking:
The library I work for currently has one page that users can be fans of. I believe they are about to pilot a branch level page in which the staff at one of the branches gets to post their own events and pictures to their own page. If this turns out well, I may be doing this at my branch.

Podcast 19

I listened to a podcast about Julia Child and one with Meg Cabot. I've never looked for podcasts before and didn't know what I was missing. Finding authors on here is great! I found that publishers often have podcasts with their authors on their web sites. I found that using google and searching what I was looking for with the word podcast worked better than using the podcast directories. I haven't subscribed to any podcasts yet but I did find a few that looked good!

YouTube number 18

I chose this video because I've done Peep Joust tournaments at the library before and the Tweenaged kids really loved it. I've also found videos on this site that help give me ideas for t-shirt making programs. There are a lot of great ideas out there just waiting to be found on one of these sites. I'm always open to having someone email me what they've found.

Personalized Databases - 17

• How can these tools be applied to your everyday work? I didn't know that these tools were on the sites that I regularly use, like EBSCO. I don't know that I'll ever use the web page maker, but it was fun to play with. I like the note taking that is available on the netlibrary site. I normally don't like reading on screen, but searching the text is SO easy.
  
• How can these tools facilitate collaboration with your colleagues? I could see dividing up materials in netlibrary regarding a project and sending each other our notes on what we read.
  
• How can these tools benefit your patrons/students? It offers a way to save information without printing! They can access the information they found in an organized way.