Thing 16 LibraryThing

LibraryThing has some neat discussions going on. Other than that I didn't see a whole lot that I would want to use. I do like that I can put inmy location and see upcoming events. That might be beneficial too....time will tell....
Did someone else find some part of this really useful for them? Please share, I feel like I must have missed something!

Thing 15 Digg

I have never heard of Digg before so this was a NEW experience!

An interesting new title I read..."Women spend nearly one year deciding what to wear"
Yes ladies, that's right.... according to a UK newspaper the average woman spends approximately 287 days choosing clothes during the course of their life time....

Another neat title: "The 10 coolest Things We Saw at the MythBusters Studio"
http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/10_coolest_things_we_saw_mythbusters_studio_0?page=0%2C0

The only problem with this site is that it is really easy to find content that is not appropriate for younger eyes. I work in an elementary school and I would have to mark the links I wanted and not use the actual digg site to show information becuase it seems like on every page there is an inappropriate link or inappropriate picture.

Thing 14 Delicious

I had seen delicious before but I had never created an account because I always saved library links at work and personal links at home. With so many of these new tools we have learned with the 23 things I have several tools I want to be able to use anytime. Now I can see how delicious will help me....and it will save me the frustration of not having the work link at home and the home link at work....

Here is my delicious page:
http://delicious.com/greenstephanie80

Thing 13 - Tagging

I love tagging items so the can be found easily. I do this all the time in my online catalog. I create lists of books that I know I am going to have to pull again for a teacher/ grade level/ or project. I would love to be able to "tag" a book with a teacher's name/ lesson idea, etc for others to see and to be able to easily pull it up. Our librarians could really network indistrict if we could tag a book with a grade level and teaching concept. It would make lesson planning SO easy!

Thing 12 - Twitter

I have not mastered Twitter yet. I do have an account but I enjoy following people mor ethan I do posting. My favorite person to follow so far is kirk franklin. I love his posts! He keeps me on my toes!
I still don't completely understand hastags. I have a friend who uses them all the time but I don't understand how to follow the hashtag... Does anyone know how???
I update my twitter from my cell phone and I am trying to link that to my facebook but I keep getting an error when loading the application. I am going to keep trying and maybe soon everything will be linked!

Thing 11 - IM

I have been instant messaging for a long time. I use my yahoo email account and instant message from there. I also use the instant message feature or chat feature on Facebook. I like that instead of waiting for an email to come thorough or a post I can have a conversation as if I was on the phone. Text messaging can even be a little difficult because you are always waiting to open the next text and it is hard to go back and look at what is said. I like that with a chat you can constantly have conversation and have a record of everything that was said on your part and theirs. This is a great tool for our libraries because it allows us to communicate with our patrons and we could even send the info to website people for new information for a FAQ's page. If someone needed to know the answer chance are that others so too! I have used a chat feature with the North Richland Hills Public Library when I was in library school. I actually conducted an interview that way! It was really neat to have everything I needed right in the chat window.... I love that they have a "live chat with a librarian" on their webpage. It makes their services so easy to access.

thing 10-Ning

I had heard about Ning but had never been there before. This is a neat space that allows networking with a group more conducive then Facebook does. My husband is a youth pastor and trying to help them network on Facebook has been difficult....Ning would allow this to happen a little better. My only reservation is getting them to all switch over. They have other networks on Facebook and I don't know if they would switch over to Ning or check Ning if they still have most of their contacts on Facebook.
I do think this could be a good way for our district librarians to network together better. I like that you can easily post videos in your network and have a "catalog" of videos to choose from that everyone can easily look through.