Our friend Lesley died less than two hours ago. I should go home but I can't quite face cycling. I like the safety and comfort of my desk and computer in the office, while my colleagues are on the help desk being kind and leaving me to cry in peace.
This is a blog written by a medical librarian used to discuss library issues, 23 Things projects, and cats.
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
23 Things: report
Thank you, OULS-as-was, for putting on this 23 Things challenge. It's been really good, and a cost-effective way to get people in the library services to interact and engage with new Web 2.0 tools as well as each other.
I like my iGoogle page, but mainly for the Word of the Day, which makes me feel clever because I already know most of the Words so far. I'll keep it as my homepage, if only to remind myself of 23 Things and to recommend Google Reader to readers who don't want to use Bloglines to read their RSS feeds. (I LOVE Bloglines, it's brilliant and is crucial for my job).
I also like Flickr, but am irritated that I now have to pay to upgrade in order to view my photos, if I want to upload any more. I really liked Picnik. That's a very cool tool. I'll use it again in the future for sure.
Delicious has also been a very useful tool - see the blog about using it in a training session to record URLs for trials registers sites. It's already come in handy several times to remind myself of useful URLs to pass on to readers!
It seems that after Week 5, I got a bit fed up with all these new-fangled Web 2.0 tools. I already use/ listen/watch podcasts and YouTube videos, so that was nothing new, and yes we are investigating podcasting library-related stuff for our users - and unfortunately for me, I haven't been invited to participate in creating any of these!
Facebook I use for personal stuff. Not for library stuff at all. Let's keep the two nicely separate.
LinkedIn *may* be useful for my dissertation. Watch this space for more.
Twitter I already use, when I remember to. I'm not so fussed about it as I personally much prefer my RSS feeds. Sorry. I'm rather conservative (with a small 'c') when it comes to these things.
Wikipedia I already use as well. I'm not that interested in contributing to wikis at the moment. They may become more important and useful in the future.
I'm glad that I had the opportunity to play with Google Docs. Now, that is a useful tool and I must play with it more often. On several occasions now, I've had documents emailed back and forth for corrections. Let's just have one Google Doc to edit and correct in future?!
I think that we should do this 23 Things thing again in a few years' time, to update our knowledge and discover all the new 'things' which will be invented in the future. I'll try to make a mental note to return to this in 2013 or so....
So long, 23 Things, and thanks for all the fish!
I like my iGoogle page, but mainly for the Word of the Day, which makes me feel clever because I already know most of the Words so far. I'll keep it as my homepage, if only to remind myself of 23 Things and to recommend Google Reader to readers who don't want to use Bloglines to read their RSS feeds. (I LOVE Bloglines, it's brilliant and is crucial for my job).
I also like Flickr, but am irritated that I now have to pay to upgrade in order to view my photos, if I want to upload any more. I really liked Picnik. That's a very cool tool. I'll use it again in the future for sure.
Delicious has also been a very useful tool - see the blog about using it in a training session to record URLs for trials registers sites. It's already come in handy several times to remind myself of useful URLs to pass on to readers!
It seems that after Week 5, I got a bit fed up with all these new-fangled Web 2.0 tools. I already use/ listen/watch podcasts and YouTube videos, so that was nothing new, and yes we are investigating podcasting library-related stuff for our users - and unfortunately for me, I haven't been invited to participate in creating any of these!
Facebook I use for personal stuff. Not for library stuff at all. Let's keep the two nicely separate.
LinkedIn *may* be useful for my dissertation. Watch this space for more.
Twitter I already use, when I remember to. I'm not so fussed about it as I personally much prefer my RSS feeds. Sorry. I'm rather conservative (with a small 'c') when it comes to these things.
Wikipedia I already use as well. I'm not that interested in contributing to wikis at the moment. They may become more important and useful in the future.
I'm glad that I had the opportunity to play with Google Docs. Now, that is a useful tool and I must play with it more often. On several occasions now, I've had documents emailed back and forth for corrections. Let's just have one Google Doc to edit and correct in future?!
I think that we should do this 23 Things thing again in a few years' time, to update our knowledge and discover all the new 'things' which will be invented in the future. I'll try to make a mental note to return to this in 2013 or so....
So long, 23 Things, and thanks for all the fish!
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