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!!

Podcast

All I knew about podcasts before this class was that the tech guy for the city has done some of library and city activities. Now I see what they are and looked at the sites you offered. There is alot of information to see and hear. I can see where this could be useful if you maybe teach an online class or maybe even a true classroom. I guess I could use it for getting information too, but for me it is just as simple to read it if I am online. Most of the computers here at the library don't have sound unless you borrow headphones. So I think our patrons would most of the time find it easier to read.

You tube

Of course I had looked at you tube before. My kids send me things from there to look at. I looked at several clips from there for the class. The one I decided to choose to mention for the class is the one for the City of Southsioux City Christmas lights. Because it is from here and shows our library and I think the Christmas lights are really cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKer2sJ_8Y is where it is.
The other clips that I watched were some about parrots because one of my grand pets is a parrot like is on there and she is just like them.
Any way yes I can see uses for you tube in the library because South Sioux City already has some of our news on there. It is an interesting way to show the world what the city and library is doing.