Thing #17 Wiki's cont

Thanks to Rock and Roll Librarian for telling us the password to login to the Favorite Wiki's page. I added items for favorite restaurant and favorite place to vacation. I think I added my blog to the Favorite blogs but I got frustrated with the link thing. So I am done with this one.

Thing #16

I looked at a couple of Wiki sites. The first was "Library Success, Best Practices". This wiki is a one-stop place for great ideas within libraries. I looked at a link from the Ann Arbor Public Library and they talked about a librarian training camp to train their staff by sharing ideas from workshops they had attended.
Then, I went to the Librarian Chick's wiki and that was filled with fun information, organized in a clear manner. I went to the kids link and then Natl Geographic and found games for kids. I'll have to go back to this one!

Thing #15

I read both the Wikipedia article and the Library 2.0 information. It seems that the library is trying to make technology more user friendly and letting the user also having some control of technology within the OPAC. The Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto also was realistic--libraries are slow to change--whether SAPL plans to utilize this technology through train the trainer with staff, and getting some librarians to teach Library/Web 2.0 to the customer.

Thing #14 Technorati

Discovery excerise putting Library 2.0 into the blog posts and the tags resulted the same results--5,330 or so results.

Gravity

Thing #12 Del.icio.us

This way of tagging and social bookmarking, explained in the Del.icio.us tutorial seems like a great way to organize information in one place. In addition, since it is public, it is a place to find topics of interest and resources that relate to those topics in one place.

#11

I really did pick 4 websites related to "Auditioned Handbell Groups". I guess it works, kind of.

Thing #11 Rollyo

It was easy to pick a topic for Rollyo--handbells! I had some trouble creating my own and getting it onto the blog. Haven't clicked on it to see if it works or anything. It seems like I always missing one step and then I randomly figure it out by luck and can't remember how I did it.

Select...Handbell JunkieSearch The Web

Thing #11

Okay Thing #11 ticked me off. I already had a GoodReads account; I finally found out about widgets, and I followed the seemingly simple directions to cut and paste. After getting a "Does not fit" message 2 times, I finally pasted it into a post and clicked Edit HTML in desperation. Wa la it worked.

Thing #10 revisited

I got this balloon image from that James Reader site that was recommended. My brain is tired from being here at 5:45 for early voting so that's all I'm going to have fun with today.

Thing #6 Revisited

Oh my goodness I finally did it.

Thing #6

Okay at least I can post a picture onto my blog. I give up on the Flickr part, though my librarian trading card is somewhere...

Thing #`10

Thing #9 more RSS Feeds

I'm not sure whether I'd have time to search for RSS feeds very much. I'm doing this on Mon. morning when we are closed, did you notice? I did use Feedster and subscribed also to Austin PL's blog and SAPL's Good Reads Blog.

Thing #8 RSS Feeds

I like RSS Feeds because it puts all your websites in one place--in the Google Reader. So all I have to do now is go to my Google acct to find websites that are in one place.

Thing #7/Technology

Okay, I am now on "Thing #7". However, I gave my Flickr Cheat Sheet to a co-worker and that link no longer works on the syllabus. Hint hint, please fix--I have a librarian trading card from Thing #6 that I would love to get on my blog....
So I am obviously not that technological..however, exposing us to the 23 Things is definitely making me think about it more.