Thing #23 Overview of O!What a Geek!
Congratulations to Deirdre who it looks like, masterminded the majority of these exercises. That was a lot of work on top of the workload she already has!
I would say this experience was very enlightening. I did take more time to do the exploring, learning exercises, and blogging than anticipated. I've expored some of the other blogs created by my colleagues and there are some terrific ones, with great ideas and creations, but unfortunately, they didn't have time to devote to get to the end. I would think a reward is in order for getting to the half-way mark and encouragement to finish the last half!
In doing this, I've discovered that there are a lot of resources that offer similar services, such as video upload. It was originally You Tube, but now Yahoo and Flicker and others are in the game. I've discovered that I've created accounts at dozens of places with dozens of login and passwords. I can see a need for one portal to all of these accounts - of course, that would compromise security. However, I think Google is trying to do this with their account. I discovered this through getting Blogger set up. They have the blogger, docs, maps, books, talk, calendar, and all kinds of applications to add to your account to bring a lot of this together in one place. I think there could be several discovery exercises with Google alone.
I've also found out how to find blogs (Technorati) and podcasts (Podcast Directory and Podcast Alley) and how to be creative with Wordl.
Most importantly, I discovered how important Social Networking has become and how important it is for our libraries to be a part of that interaction. We ate Thanksgiving Dinner with my mother's friend Doris, in her 80s, who was wondering what happened to her cousin. The kids of today will never lose track of anybody. However, the networking make our lives more transparent, and also has unintended consequences. My nieces were horrified to see a relative was trash talking them - and they could read all about it through Face Book! There will have to be new etiquette ebooks written on questions such as, "How do I decline a Facebook request?"
I would say this experience was very enlightening. I did take more time to do the exploring, learning exercises, and blogging than anticipated. I've expored some of the other blogs created by my colleagues and there are some terrific ones, with great ideas and creations, but unfortunately, they didn't have time to devote to get to the end. I would think a reward is in order for getting to the half-way mark and encouragement to finish the last half!
In doing this, I've discovered that there are a lot of resources that offer similar services, such as video upload. It was originally You Tube, but now Yahoo and Flicker and others are in the game. I've discovered that I've created accounts at dozens of places with dozens of login and passwords. I can see a need for one portal to all of these accounts - of course, that would compromise security. However, I think Google is trying to do this with their account. I discovered this through getting Blogger set up. They have the blogger, docs, maps, books, talk, calendar, and all kinds of applications to add to your account to bring a lot of this together in one place. I think there could be several discovery exercises with Google alone.
I've also found out how to find blogs (Technorati) and podcasts (Podcast Directory and Podcast Alley) and how to be creative with Wordl.
Most importantly, I discovered how important Social Networking has become and how important it is for our libraries to be a part of that interaction. We ate Thanksgiving Dinner with my mother's friend Doris, in her 80s, who was wondering what happened to her cousin. The kids of today will never lose track of anybody. However, the networking make our lives more transparent, and also has unintended consequences. My nieces were horrified to see a relative was trash talking them - and they could read all about it through Face Book! There will have to be new etiquette ebooks written on questions such as, "How do I decline a Facebook request?"
Comments
Congratulations on finishing! Your colleagues do get a little extra time to finish but you have done a great job. And I was really touched to see you recognize some of the work I've put in (I should say I didn't write any from scratch, it was heavily borrowed from others!). I enjoyed reading your blog. Hope you continue writing and learning (well, I know you'll continue learning).
Thanks,
Deidre