Thing 23

Phew, made it!
So, to evaluate.
Some of the things are great gadgets and I'm glad I've found out about them - Doodle's really good. Zotero and Delicious seem to have a lot to offer. My iGoogle page is useful and now I know what to do with RSS feeds.
Seeing the social networking stuff has been interesting, too. There has been discussion about the Darwin Correspondence Project having a presence in this area; but it seems to me that if you want to do this you have to do it properly. Running a Facebook page is a commitment - nobody's interested if you haven't posted anything for three months.
So - definite possibilities, but like most things it takes hard work to be really successful.

Thing 19

The articles about the differenct libraries were most interesting - especially the Orkney one, as we have used the library services there. It's easy to appreciate how, in such an isolated community, social networking such as Facebook or Twitter can make people feel more involved. As for marketing the project I work for, this would have to be discussed with the rest of the project staff.

A few comments

Google diary: I notice the UL is running two diaries which you can find on its home page. The Google diary in the 'Library toolkit' suggests that the Spies exhibition is still running.
Facebook - if an organisation has a Facebook page, then really it needs to be active - something appearing at least every week. The Cambridge Libraries page hasn't had anything added to it since 3 May. That makes it easy to forget about. It seems to me that the Orkney Libraries on line presence is successful because library staff are busy putting things on it.
LinkedIn - the Darwin project is being pestered by someone who wants to be linked to it. But the darwin Project isn't LinkedIn.

Thing 17

LinkedIn. I have found this several times while researching people on the internet, and it was interesting to see the whole of it, rather than the little bits I'd come across before. Usually I'm researching dead people, so I discount any hits in Limekiln. It seems so like Facebook that I'm not in a hurry to create a page for myself: these pages need to be looked after and in the end it all takes time.

Thing 16

As a Facebooker I felt that at least I was up to speed on this one, though I hadn't realised quite how much library stuff is available. Does this mean that Facebooking in work time may become more acceptable?! However finding things using Facebook seems relatively slow compared with Google.

Thing 7

Have to admit I'm not at all sympathetic to Twitter. I got Twittered out a year or so ago by a work colleague who Twittered incessantly on Facebook. Personally I prefer a bit of coffeetime chat!
Anyway, I've set up the account & we'll see what happens. I feel I need to be wary of things that can be seen as time-wasters.

First blog 31 May 2010

I seem to have wasted far too much time on this so far, but I have at last succeeded in getting here. Why is it that even the simplest instructions seem to be open to multiple interpretations? At the moment I'm not very well-informed about any of this, so 23 things can only improve the situation. The only 'social media' I use is Facebook, which I've found very useful for keeping in touch with my children when they've been abroad, especially for sharing photographs. Though when it comes to sharing information, it can provide more than a parent really wants to know about their offspring's social activities.