Libworm beta

Signed up. This is not my thing. This could be a fun thing for us to show our patrons how to do. I found it to be too much like the last thing that I did. It was very easy to sign up for and could be a good concept for the right person.

Library thing

I joined Library thing. At first it would not let me join it kept telling me that I had already signed up and I was using the wrong user name. I tried to e-mail the information to myself but, it did not send. I finally just started all over again and signed up again. Finally went through. I don't think that I will use Library thing very much. I am pretty stuck on the authors that I read and I already have a membership with random house book to let me know when my favorite authors will be releasing new books. I don't need to write down the books that I own to keep up with them and I don't care to tell others about my books. I am sure that many of my coworkers and our patrons will enjoy this sight. I am sure that it could become a staple for patrons who read multipal books and want to keep a list of the books that they have read and not read.

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.