LibraryThing

I'll enjoy coming back to this and enhancing my skeleton collection, creating tags and delving more deeply into the reviews. I was surprised at the numbers associated with my choices. I wouldn't have suspected the popularity for two of the titles. I don't feel as though I can really make an informed comment on the value of this site until I spend more time on it, but it does seem to have a lot of potential as a readers' advisory tool.

Efficiency tools

I created a calendar on Kiko but can't say that it feels any more useful than my outlook calendar (less so because I linked it to my home e-mail and most of my entries are work related. I've customized my Google home page on my home computer already, so I skipped that. I'm not even going to try the listmakers since the very nature of making lists for me is spontaneous and I don't think turning on the computer is going to figure in to my 3:00 am scribbles. I use e-mail to send these scribbled lists to myself later and can't see how a listmaker would improve that system. Not much new here on thing 13. Oh--I will spend some time looking at the PDF converters because I think those could be useful when working with patrons.

Thing 12 definitely a pleasure

I enjoyed browsing these sites that sift and sort news stories. I'm familiar with the concept through the NYT website and also MinnPost, but liked seeing how different these sites can be. I liked the organization of Digg best, but found the content most interesting on Newsvine. I can see myself returning to these sites, but feel that they can be a time sink--putting me online longer than I care to be. I get a paper subscription of the NYT and still prefer the randomness of my own perusal over breakfast in the morning and an after-work snack in the evening.

Value discovered

I'm pretty excited about a posting I found on Tame the Web (see link under blog list). It is called what a list of rules and it is about a code of conduct posted at the Hall County Public Library. Reading the posting and the comments gives me much food for thought.

Thing 11--social media

I searched del.icio.us. for librarians and time and hit the jackpot. Here are a couple of links that I found valuable:
http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/09/03/10-ways-to-find-time-for-23-things/
http://www.slideshare.net/sirexkat/finding-time-to-learn-about-emerging-technologies
I'm not doing a lot of research right now, but I can see how such a gathering site as del.icio.us (annoying to type) would be useful--I think I'll try using it if I do more research gathering for the policy project I am working on. Right now I am going to explore some of the blogs that were recommended in the slideshow.

Moving along

I'm going to consider both thing 9 and thing 10 done. I've watched videos on googledocs and on wikis. When we were opening the new library at Maplewood I used a wiki and I have participated on the internal reference wiki as well. I know how they work and how to contribute and read new contributions. I am interested in using googledocs to store the documents I am working on in formulating the code of conduct. I have found keeping track of all of my latest versions to be challenging and can see how this storage and sharing feature would be helpful. I will explore the other document sharing tools as I have time, but think that the basic content of these two things is clear to me.

Politically and technologically active! Thing 8

Hey--I both watched the vp debates and created a slideshow to post! I won't divulge which was the more rewarding experience. I have opinions about both, but will stick to the 23 things. I had a few missteps here, mostly due to haste, but generally this was quite easy and I think this idea of creating and sharing slideshows and presentations is great. It is all fairly intuitive, no matter which service you use. I can see using this if I wanted to jazz up a presentation and it might even help me overcome my aversion to the scrapbooking mentality.
I might need some help overcoming another aversion. Anyone up for diagramming some first response sentences? I think you'd find it quite simple.