Thing 10 - Wiki's

I just spent the last several minutes playing around in MPR's Minnewiki. I found it very frustrating! Even after reading the help and instructions several times I still could not figure out how to link a wiki I created for a person to their list of people. It's the same thing I get hung up on at work. I just cannot get a grip on how to link wikis to one another. I can create them and that's not a problem I just can't figure out how to link them, and that is almost more important to me than creating them. Here is the link to the wiki that I created through work.

Thing 9 - Google Docs

Since I use Google on a regular basis I prefer working with Google Docs over Zoho Writer. It is a lot like using a Wiki and there is a great need for tools like this in the library world. These collaborative tools make collaboration much easier. At work we have several wiki's which help keep us all on track of upcoming training and conferences and we can all edit them whenever we'd like.

Thing 8

I created a Flickr Badge which you will see to the right. It was pretty easy to do. I can see this being a great tool for libraries to highlight new books, to highlight areas in their library, to highlight staff photos. There are really alot of great ways one could use this Flickr Badge.

Thing 7 Web 2.0 Communication Tools

I think I've got all of these down already. I use Meebo and IM at work on a daily basis, I have a Yahoo email account, and I use text messaging on my cell phone (just occasionally since they charge me $.15 per message). I have already set up a Meebo Widget from my blog so people can IM me right from my blog. As far as all of these tools go I think that IM, and of course email, are great applications for libraries. I have to admit that in most cases, I will send someone an email before I would pick up the phone to call them.

My Trading Card - Thing 6?

My Trading Card
Originally uploaded by fried004

O.k. here's my very unexciting trading card. That is really cool though there is sooooo much you can do with all those web "toys". I will have to spend some more time playing around with it. This was pretty easy to do!

Flickr Thing 5

Flickr

Edward
Originally uploaded by fried004

So this was really easy to do. I already had a Flickr account since I email through Yahoo. Everything was just a simple click here and click there. I doubt I'll use Flickr much because I upload photos through another provider but it's good to know how to use it.

Thing 4 Flickr

Next week I will be uploading some photos but I have already used Flickr via some friends that have posted photos of my 20th High School Reunion. I have searched Flickr and played around with it quite a bit. It's a great service and it's wonderful that it is free. I'll spend some more time today searching and then next week I'll upload some pics.

Widgets

I'm not sure if adding widgets to your blog is one of the 23 Things but I just did it anyway! After some playing around I figured out how to add a MeeboMe widget and the WorldCat search box to my blog! I have a sense of accomplishment from that. All this stuff just really takes a lot of playing around with.

Thing 3 - RSS Feeds#$@%^&*%$

After quite a bit of time and going back and forth between MyYahoo and Google Reader I have finally set up feeds in both. This is all supposed to be pretty easy but man it's frustrating! When I would click on the universal orange RSS icon it would automaticlly create the feed in MyYahoo when I wanted it in Google Reader. So much of this is time consuming and it really entails a lot of "playing" around. I am glad that I now have these feeds created because it will save time, in the long run.