Ning - Thing 10

I liked the fact that you could browse many of the social networks without having to sign up or join. I am not a big fan of joining a lot of social networking sites. I browsed through some of the librarian sites – searching academics librarians produced one for a group of science librarians. Also, found networks for YA librarians. Wine 2.0 was interesting.

I doubt that I will join Ning. But it is fun and entertaining to look.

More Facebook - Thing 9

I’ve added a few friends and content to my page. Several I located by looking at friends of friends and searched by individual names. Added my HS and the Community College where I work. The surprising thing about my HS list was that many of the names I didn’t even recognize. I went to a fairly small HS so maybe some of the women must have used only their married names. I did find a few people that I haven’t heard from in awhile. Should be interesting.

Groups I am following:
Library Instruction Roundtable,
Library 2.0 Interest Group,
Children’s & YA Librarians &
Texas Library Association

Facebook - Thing 8

I had set up a facebook account many months ago at the encouragement of a friend. I wasn’t sure I really wanted or needed one at this time but he was sure I needed to set one up. So I succumbed to a little peer pressure. Later, I searched for a few friends, not finding them including the friend who suggested that I set up a fb, I quickly dismissed it, until now. It was amazing that I actually remembered the password.

I have a myspace account that I set up a couple of years ago when my daughter was a preteen and just starting to get into the social networking with school friends. I had fun with it for several months but it eventually lost its novelty. I rarely log in anymore.

Personally, I think that fb may befall the same fate as myspace. Professionally, it may be more useful in networking and advertising programs and events at your library especially to teens and young adults. I will have to wait and see.

Map of States Visited

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/map.php

I thought the map was a cool addition to some of the other blogs, so I thought I would add one of my own. Love the image generators. I still need to visit/vacation in a few more states before I die and travel to some other countries other than Canada and Mexico.

RSS Feeds - Thing 7

The short video was informative and humorous. I added a few more sites to my reader. I had seen some of the icons on various websites and never really knew what they were for and never took the time to investigate. Now I will know what to do with them should I decide to take advantage of them.

Blog Readers - Thing 6

I guess I had better get cracking on the “things,” as I am only on thing 6 and so far we are up to thing 10. I am glad I decided to participate in this project because I probably would not have had an opportunity to play with some of these technology things or even know they were available to think about how they could be useful both professionally and personally.

I set up Google Reader and added some NT 23 blogs, news and lifestyle links. It is a convenient timesaver to be able to view the new entries at one time. I find it most useful for the blogs that I am following because new content can be viewed when the reader is opened. I don’t have to open each individual blog only to find nothing new was added that day. The news feed that I included, I am not so sure it is that helpful. Since I don’t always have time to view the reader each day, I had over 250 top news items to view and it required scrolling all the way to the bottom to clear the items count to 0. Some I had already read about in the newspaper or heard about on the radio or TV, so it was not always new news.

I will continue to explore other aspects and features and read some of the other blogs for more info.