Thing 23 - The End of the Road

Whew; made it! I'm glad I was encouraged to continue when I was bogged down and ready to pack it in about halfway through. Extending the dealine really helped too. Anyway, I did learn alot! (You CAN teach an old dog...) I'll need to make a point of going back through this again and exploring some areas in a little more depth (or just- again). Some favorites were flickr, and image generators and youtube. Of all the 'things', I may most use my Bloglines account and RSS feeds.
I'm glad LCPL made it a systemwide offering and supported the journey for all staff. I would definitely choose to participate if a similar program were again offered.

NetLibrary - Thing 22

I'm familiar with these resources. Great to have this option available to our customers. Sure wish the NetLibrary access was more user friendly, though.
I did download a SMALL file for this exercise. If I didn't have dial-up, I'd definitely use OverDrive much more often. Nice titles. I'll have to try to download a title to my new MP3 player when I get it (and have an overnight to leave the computer online)!

Thing 21: Podcasts

Well, I did some exploring and didn’t find terribly much of interest. There doesn’t seem to be nearly the expanse of podcast ‘stuff’ out there, as say, on YouTube. I’ve never been a big fan of words on audio anyway, since I’m not an audio learner - I prefer to read... There didn’t seem to be a lot of library related podcasts that appealed to me at first glance. I did pull in the LibVibe feed to check out, though. I’ll continue to go back and explore more later, as time permits.

YouTube - Thing 20

What I liked most about YouTube was the sheer quantity and diversity of items there. I could find an item for just about every subject I could think of. Quite a few library related ones too. Seems particularly good for promotion of various services.
And I can't wait to try the library dominoes during the next book sale. I chose this particular video because it seems like librarians and superheros have alot in common.
"We are a public service not glamour boys!"

Thing 19 - Best of 2.0

Since I have never been able to explore these from home (verrry slow dial-up), I took the time to briefly explore YouTube, Odeo, and last.fm (movies, podcasts, music, etc) - The sheer number of 'things' and variety of 'stuff' on these sites are amazing! It's probably best for my at-home productivity that I can't use these. These were all pretty easy to navigate too, though I spent way too much time exploring. I also liked the format of newsvine, which I looked at very briefly.

ZoHo Thing 18

Zoho seems pretty easy to use and has some great features. I'll be exploring this one later....

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Yes!  Exploring zoho now.  I found the emotions and I inserted this pic of a musical happening at LOV.

 

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#17 pbwiki

I added a link to my blog there, and a favorite or two. Onward...

thing 16 wots in a wiki

OK, I know how truly nifty wikis are. It'd be great if LCPL could get through the County/DIT hurdles and have some of that functionality. Reader reviews/annotations on the catalog (gasp!), bookclubs, subject/research guides, community resources/information; egad, that'd be great. I think folks would like it. Some great ideas out there - I'll be returning to the best practices wiki. On to #17!

Library 2.0

Better Library Services For More People - That's the name of the succinct Michael and Casey article ttp://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/01/better-library-services-for-more-people.html and the rationale behind what we as librarians continue to work to provide. Only the tag and the technology is new; the concept and philosophy of service is not. It's great that so many librarians and library systems are trying to be proactive with regard to meeting users where they now live and incorporating Web/Library 2.0 training/partnerships for/with staff, and participation, interactivity, etc. for their customers. I also liked the idea of the brandy and single malt someone referred to related to holding onto some of our traditional roles... hmmm, maybe I better go back and reread that....

Technorati

Interesting to explore this - the results of the various searches are very different. The watchlists concept is a good one, again, if I only had the time.
The "favorite/popular" blogs were interesting to explore some - I ended up following links for way too long into way too vastly different subject areas. I need more focus!

Thing 13 - Del.icio.us

I enjoyed exploring Del.icio.us. I may possibly use it as an adjunct to exploring a subject and it's a nifty feature that I can get to my bookmarks from any computer anywhere through the account. I'll definitely go back to this and explore more.

Thing 12 - Rollyo

Well, I played around a bit with this, and the concept is pretty nifty. I see the potential for something like this, but personally, I don't know if I'd use it much.
Anyway, I rolled one http://rollyo.com/cwood/jazz_and_improvised_music/

I was just trying to catalog them for Library Thing...

Don't try this at home.
Originally uploaded by suscilib.

Thing 11: Library Thing

This is a neat site. I added some favorite and recent books to my account.
I don't think I'll use it much (again, that 'time' thing), since I already have huge waiting lists of books I want to read.
Might be good for a novel idea once in a while though...
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/cwoodlov

Thing 10 - Image Generators

Amazing the variety of generators out there. I did have fun looking through some of the many choices. The one I happened to post (Stephanie DID say be tasteful) is from www.redkid.net

Thing 9-Finding Feeds - other than at the Tractor Supply Store

I liked the Bloglines search and the Syndic8 best. The Syndic8 because it had a listing of favorites of folks, which was kind of fun to explore. The bloglines search I found easy to use and didn't have alot of ads. Maybe if I give the others more time, it'll change... Oh, I also did like the Topix.net for newsfeeds.
Now, I just need to retire and my children grow up - then I'll have the time and resources to stay well informed!

thing 8

RSS feeds (and the bloglines type accounts) are nice time savers by having new 'stuff' from different places all in one place.
In reality, I don't have the time to keep up with them, though.
Here's my bloglines account: http://www.bloglines.com/public/cwoodlov

Moscow 02.18.05 15.00 Img0310

Moscow 02.18.05 15.00 Img0310
Originally uploaded by PabsV.

I bet there's snow on the ground here....

technology thing 7

what to say? technology is your friend? how does one measure progress? is it for the greater good? who determines the 'greater good'? does technology encourage or hinder the building of better customer service methodologies/relationships/community? does it matter?
i do enjoy new technologies, though it takes awhile since learning technology does take time. that's why the support for us doing this learning 2.0 thing is nice, however, i still find myself rushing through these 'things' to get back to 'real' work.

MaryWarholized

MaryWarholized
Originally uploaded by cwloudoun.

This was a neat option through fd's Flickr Toys.....
A pic of Mary, our dog, taken Saturday at the park.

Horizon 1.0

cardboxes
Originally uploaded by Nils K. Windisch (netomer).

remember these?