Monday, January 26, 2009

Thing 3 -- Technorati

OK so I'm not sure I want the world to know what I am writing in my Blog. After all I am job hunting and what is I say something like XXXX Library doesn't even have a disaster plan and they see it and decide not to offer me a job. I know, I know, don't say anything you don't want the world to see. Well I went ahead and registered at Technorati anyway -- under an alias. I'm also using an alias in Facebook which my son thinks is hysterical. The OCLC report said that the younger generations aren't as paranoid about identity theft and privacy as my generation and especially librarians. I looked at blog search engines bloglines and technorati. I searched under my last name and the searches were TOTALLY different. I did learn that there is a plaza that bears my last name in a town out west. I have a phone interview Tuesday with the library in that town. A little goosebumpy if you ask me. After poking around a little on both sites I liked Bloglines better. Even tho Technorati had videos as well I just felt a little creepy there. Bloglines had the visual similarity to google and that may have been why I was more comfortable. The posts that were brought up had a different feel to them as well. I had a birthday last week -- maybe I'm too old to share myself with the world and feel good about it.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Thing Two

Thing two is reflections on Web 2.0. It was funny because I read the Neflin post asking us to reflect after I read the recent American Libraries article "Testing the Web 2.0 Waters". I try to keep up-- I really do. Time and energy seem to conspire against me. My kids help me stay up to date. I was IMing with the best of them 10 years ago when our son was in college. Our daughter-in-law was in my space. So I joined my space. The kids in our service area were using my space so our library has a my space page. Now my daughter-in-law and son both use face book so -- guess what I have a facebook account. The kids in our service area are moving on to twitter. And so it goes.
I've aggregated RSS feeds for a dozen blogs (the Neflin 23 things one won't add), but most of the time I do no more than skim the headlines. I'm a firm believer that you should be where your users/patrons are. If they are using blogs then the Library System needs to blog. If they wouldn't know a blog from a bog then you should concentrate your efforts eleswhere. Just because we can dosen't mean we should.
Maybe after I finish the 23 things I won't feel like I'm playing catch up. I'll be even with the rest of the world for oh.... 23 seconds at least.
Now on to my CPLA class homework. Who would have thunk 10 years ago we would be taking synchronous classes and trainings on line...
Currently reading: Strength for the Journey and listening to 1st to Die ( and my homework for CPLA and SSLLI)

Monday, January 12, 2009

Thing 1 -- Blogs

It is January 12th and we are starting 23 things at NEFLIN. Yipeee!. I can't wait to learn new things and learn more about things I already use. I created this blog several weeks ago (with great difficulty I might add) because I just couldn't wait for January 12th. Between SSLLI, and my CPLA classes and my design team work for the Ladies Retreats this is going to be a little more difficult than I had hoped. But I'm game -- Let's Go!