Finished at last!

After a last minute dash to finish some of the Things I skipped in the middle, I have finally reached the end! 23 Things has introduced me to internet tools I would never have dreamt of investigating on my own, and has, on the whole, been an enjoyable learning experience.

My favourite things are:

• iGoogle, where I can see useful things like email, Google reader, my delicious, the latest news and weather etc, all on one screen at the same time.
• RSS feeds
• Flickr (This encouraged me to buy a digital camera, something I'd been dithering about for some time..)
• Podcasts

Thank you, 23Things organisers for all your hard work

Twitter, twitter, tweet, tweet...

At last, I get to find out why all the world except me seems to be twittering away! I've done all the various bits, but am still finding my way around. The trouble is it's just one more website to check up on, so after the novelty wears off I suspect I'll forget all about it....but at least I gave it a try.

Facebook /LinkedIn

As I am not on facebook I only have a vague idea how it works. It would seem to be a user friendly way to let students know what's happening in the library.
I duly signed up for LinkedIn, but am not sure quite what to do with it. I may investigate it further whan I have more time.

Back tracking...to podcasts and YouTube

Having just completed thing 22, I now have to go back and fill in the bits I missed earlier!

I searched the BBC podcasts and listened to a bit of Gardners' question time, which is something I haven't heard for ages. I set up an RSS feed to it so I can catch up with the last few programmes. I then investigated podcasts from the University; I searched the RAI website and like my colleague Eleanor listened to some of Robin Kelley's Harmsworth lecture. Podcasts are something new to me; they seem useful things and I can see mayself using them in the future.

I then looked at a few videos on YouTube. Some of the library ones were amusing, others not so good. I looked at peoples comments but wasn't tempted to make any myself. Personally I could happily live without YouTube!

Gadgets and widgets

I added my Flikr photostream to my blog using a Blogger gadget, which was easy. Adding my delicious bookmarks to my igoogle page was easy up to the point where I had to tell the gadget my username; it wasn't very obvious (to me, anyway!)how I should do this, but Eleanor came to my rescue and pointed to the tiny words in the right hand corner which I needed to click on...et voila! Easy when you know how.

Google docs/Office 2.0

Google docs was fairly straight forward; I experimented with the formatting and shared a document with colleague Eleanor. ThinkFree took ages to load, and had trouble keeping up with my (very slow) typing. Competent typists must find it very frustrating. It did have more formatting options though.

Wikis/Wikipedia

It's against my nature (being a librarian!) to put anything out of order, but thought I'd skip a few "things" to do Wikis, which I know a bit about, and fiddle with the earlier things later.
I use Wikipedia quite a lot to look things up; I don't think I would risk editing anything, but found the history and discussion tabs interesting - I'd never taken much notice of them before. We have a library wiki, so I thought I'd check the missing books list and found one book on the shelf, so edited the list, and also made a few minor changes elsewhere. I've also turned my blog blue (was a bit tired of the pink.)