Well, like many of you, I made it and the exciting thing for me is that I am ready to go on to more things in Library 2.1. When I first heard about Library 2.0 last year, I figured it was for the most technically savvy generation of 20 and 30 somethings (or Teens). I am pleasantly surprised that with patience and perserverance I could learn about social networking, new methods of communicating, share some of my interests and knowledge, and have fun doing it. I am among the staff who started working here before computers. Do any of you remember the TWXIL(sp?) machine in General Reference for ILL? I am proud to have created this blog without outside help, through trial and error, a bag of M&M peanuts, and a desire to go on with it. Once Michele Mellor showed me the blog template, I was on my way.
My goal has been to logically and methodically go through the exercises and blog about them. I easily could have gotten carried away with the image generators which seem to be not only popular but also fun to create and post. As you can see, I have them too. I couldn't help myself. However, I wanted to have an understanding that I could build upon with each exercise in order to see where this use of technology would lead me and help in my job here at the Library. I hope I have done that and that others will enjoy reading and clicking on things but learn something too from my blog. I plan to continue to tinker with it in coming weeks and make sure the layout and widgets are where I want them, etc.
One of my favorite things to do has been Library Thing and I will continue to add books I am reading there. I would like to add a few book reviews or comments to my entries. I also want to work on my tags. I like the concept of tags and being able to search by popular terms or similar concepts. I think we could reach more users by adopting this kind of technology in our library catalog. I will definitely use my bloglines account and follow the RSS feeds. I am glad to know about Technorati and Podcasts but will need to play around more with them to see what library applications might occur to me. I blogged about my interests in Wikis and definitely like the ability to create and edit entries that are shared work. What was the hardest? Believe it or not--posting the Bloglines widget to my blog!
Thing 10 was created from BlinkYou.com
I have edited this caption since I decided to keep it on my blog as an early attempt in Thing 10 to post image generators. It was very frustrating until I got the hang of doing this. I have played around with re-sizing image generators, removing them if too big, moving them around my blog. Alas, I sort of like this one because of liking cats and butterflies. So I will leave it here. I am still learning as I go on.
On Chesil Beach
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