Thing 18

Zotero has been recommended by a colleague, so I've been keen to give it a try. After a brief experiment it seems easy to use and I shall be pleased to use it for real. With its little icon in the bottom right of the screen I may not forget its existence! In fact, it seems such a good idea that I have myself recommended it to my student children. Creating a bibliography can be such a tedious task that anything that improves speed and accuracy is useful.

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.

Things 14 & 15

I like the look of this! I had a go at listing our book collection some years ago, but I haven't kept it up to date. The only thing I'd need would be time.

Thing 13: reflection

I've certainly expanded my experience of internet things, and I doubt I wd have bothered. I can see that most people sort out a few ways of managing things on the internet that suit them and then don't try new things. So my knowledge has definitely increased (if not my skills). I certainly feel more confident - at least I've had a look at these things and know more about them. As for recommendations - I'm encouraging people to use Doodle, the meeting planner. But it will probably take a while before others are prepared to accept my recommendations.

Thing 12

Finally got round to having a good look at Delicious. Found the Fox Talbot letters project:
http://www.foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/
In its section on 'Project methodology' it says
"Some elements of the approach to the work of another of Talbot's contemporaries, that of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press), have been adopted. However, this excellent work follows conventions established for literary manuscripts that are unnecessarily complex for the Talbot letters."
From a quick investigation, it doesn't seem as if CD gets even a passing reference in Fox Talbot's correspondence, nor Fox Talbot in CD's (just a reference in a footnote about daguerrotypes).
And a site selling CD on the Beagle t-shirts
http://www.thebeagleproject.com/

Delicious is tempting, but I haven't signed up for an account yet: having to create an account with Yahoo! has put me off for the time being. More accounts, more passwords: I need to think this over.