Thing 23

The beginning of 23 Things is now a bit of a blur and, to be honest, it took me a while to get the hang of what it was all about - I had felt somewhat overwhelmed by the amount of information in the emails sent before it began.

As you can see from my first entry I thought the blog was just a blog - not a way to communicate my progress through the 23 Things.

It started to make sense and I was able to add the fact that I had created an iGoogle page and then I set off...

I have enjoyed this more than I thought I would. It has been interesting to explore Web 2.0 technologies that I have shyed away from (Linkedin and Twitter) and things of which I had no real understanding (Delicious and RSS Feeds). Creating a Google Document - a survey - was entertaining and learning that I can create PDFs easily with ThinkFree was a revelation.

Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook were familiar, but it has been useful to reflect on them and their application to the library world, and also to consider some of the functions I had not known about.

Some of the purposes of the technologies will unfold over time (I hope), such as my membership of the Humsbox Wiki, as well as Delicious and Linkedin. Some I will be pleased to leave behind - Twitter, for example! - but above all it has inspired me to keep this blog. I have had encouraging comments (received privately) from those who have looked at it and it will be an interesting forum for writing about the libraries I visit, as well as, perhaps, the books I read and the thoughts I have about all things library-ish.