Google reader

I am working on this. But since I don't blog very often I was having login problems. I also had gotten a google account that I didn't remember until after I was told by them that I already had an account and had to go through the process of changing my password. Then I had never done the change on blogger to make it to the new login. I just always used the sign in from when I first signed up. So when I went to send something from google to blogger it kept wanting me to sign in and I couldn't remember what I was supposed to put in. Also I usually get to blogger from the Nebraska 2.0 site and go to participants. Anyway I will try again soon since I figured out some of what I was doing wrong. Some days it doesn't really pay to try something new. Once I get into using google reader I think I will like it better than bloglines.

CE credits

I am wondering why I didn't get credit for the thing about facebook. I had it done before the end of the month and I checked the link to get to the post. It worked and still I didn't get the credit. Oh well I guess I will try this months and if I don't get credit for that one I will probably quit the class. I don't get to really use much of what I learn anyway. I could use more of it but the people I work with think that it is a waste of time.

August Thing #27

This months thing is Facebook. I love facebook!!! It is a fantastic way to keep up with my family!!!!!!!! Yesterday I found out I had a new cousin and usually I wouldn't have found that out until the weekend when I talked to my mom. I also found out through Facebook that our Library is getting new computers from the Gates Foundation. I found that out through the Nebraska Library Commission. Since we really should learn something for this class I tried to put the Twitter application on my Facebook page. I haven't figured out if it works very well yet but I will keep working on it. Also this month I actually used my option on our Library page. I am able to add things on the Library's Facebook page but had never tried that until this month. It worked!!! I asked for donations that I didn't get, but still it worked to post it so that was worth something!I check Facebook at least once a day usually more than that.I think that Facebook should have the rep for the fastest growing because of the things I said it is a great way to get and keep people from all parts of the country and the world together. It would be nice if more people would follw the libray page but I am sure that will come with time.

Thing 25

Well I didn't get to do this one. With vacations and a new director at work I have been too busy and tired to do anything extra. I did try part of this one and still would like to play with Google Earth. Maybe later. Hopefully I get to do the next thing. I REALLY do like that we can miss some of these. Otherwise I would have done it in a really fast sloppy way just to be done.

Thing 24

This is so fun and like one person said in a comment it is hard to stay on task. I didn't have any luck with finding our library. I know that we are on there because we put things there. But people aren't catching on yet. I did get more tweets to follow and more bloglines things. I have a hard time keeping the RSS things relating to the library. i finally gave up on that and went with the idea that as a librarian I should have a well rounded knowledge of what is going on in the world. In our library. as in most, each of us has certain things that we know more about. I can help that by keeping informed on various topics. Having RSS feeds and twitter tweets is helping me to do this. I am still getting used to it and since I can't do it at work my time is definitely limited. I wish it wasn't because I could spend lots of time reading all the info. As for the part of the assignment where we are to comment to someone. I did that but not to a library related tweet. It takes lots of time and practice to get the hang of it. Since I have gotten the hang of facebook I sure twitter is just a matter of time.

NEW CLASS Next Thing

I decided to do it!!! I signed up for the next 2.0 class. I will have to do it all at home because some people thought I was spending too much time on "playing" at work. Maybe it was playing because I was enjoying most of it.
Hopefully I will get to do alot of the Things. I really hope to.

thing 23 The End

Most of this class was fun. I may have had a hard time getting into some of the things but after all is said and done I really enjoyed it. Some of the things like bloglines I wil keep doing . Twitter is another one I will keep watching. It will have to be only at home because I am in trouble at work for not doing only library things on my computer. As you can tell I really liked those 2. It was a good thing to learn what these things are even if our patrons don't have a clue most of the time. Now if someone says something about a wiki or a podcast or even a RSS feed I will know what they are talking about. The emails are a little bit annoying when they tell every time someone put up a new thought. So I will be getting out of those as soon as I can.
That is one of the things I didn't like about the class was that we had to sign up for stuff that we will never use again. I guess I can see the point but it would be good if there were a way to see the way it works without actually signing up if it is something you don't forsee using again.
If another class like this is offered I would do it but probably do it all at home so that nobody could question if I was doing library work or personal stuff.
I realize that isn't the fault of the class just a personal thing that is going on right now.
So to end this. Thank you for giving me the chance to learn about all of these THINGS!!