Ning

You are right I did not do a blog about ning. There are just too many things that we are doing to be able to enjoy each one. I did get on ning. I had one other employee that sent me a message through ning. That is all that I have done with it. I have been really busy with the facebook. I have post a lot of pictures to friends and family only. I have reconnected with some old friends from high school and I have been keeping in touch with my daughter on facebook as well. I think that the librarians can probably utilize ning to keep in touch with patrons.

Digg

I really did digg. I found some really funny and interesting things on offbeat. I thought it was one of the funnest things I have had on a new "23 thing". I did not have any problem signing up and loging in to an account. I also found a few things to put on my facebook. I hope everyone else will enjoy this as much as I do. I started out thinking that this "23 things" was going to be a drudge. I am pleasantly surprised that I am enjoying it much more than I thought I would. I think this would be a fun thing to show patrons who are just looking for something to do on the computer while they are here at the Library.

Delicious

I know have a delicious account. I think this will be a handy tool for finding the things that I use most. I did not have any problem opening an account or following the instructions for organizing my bookmarks and giving them tags. Here is my delicious web link http://delicious.com/pagemaster67.

I think this will be a wonderful tool for our patrons who come in to use the computers at the Library because they do not own their own computer. This is a way for them to keep up with their favorite things on the Internet what ever computer they are on.

Tagging

From what I understand about tagging. (Which is not a lot). I think for personal use it can be a good system for you to keep up with what you save and store. For public use I think it would probable get very confusing and hard to differentiate one think from another. Everyone has their own way of remembering things and organizing. I am sure that their are people in the public who would benefit from this and would appreciate the library showing them all about how it works.

Twitter

I joined twitter. It is very easy to start a twitter account. My only issue was that it is hard to find my friends. There is not a lot to twitter if you ask me. I am not getting the fascination with it. I think that twitter is so big right now that knowing how to start is important to anyone within the Library that is helping the public learn about computers.

IM

as far as IMing I have been doing this for years through yahoo. I think this is a great tool for family that lives far away. I IM with my sister all the time. We also both have web cams and can see each other while we are chatting. I think teaching our older patron how to IM is a very useful tool. Most older people do not realize that they can talk to their loved ones near and far in real time on the computer for free.

Facebook

I think facebook can be helpful to the library. I like that I can get on and always be surprised that someone has left me a message and or a comment or some source of information. I also think that you can get to know your co-workers on a new light. They only have to put what they don't mind others knowing about them. The thinks that you learn about each other is really interesting.