Stick #23 Done

I just took the online evaluation and am officially finished with "23 Things On a Stick". This has been a great learning experience, albeit time consuming, and I'm sad to see it come to an end. I feel a great sense of accomplishment and pride in having finished. Ning would be a great place for all of us to tell about new "Things" that we learn.

"Thank you" to all who worked to put this together.

Stick #22 Ways to keep up

Wow! I can't believe I'm coming to the close of the 23 Things. I know that I've hardly scratched the surface of all that is out there. I plan to continue posting on this blog and hope to learn many new "Things". I will continue using my aggregator, but can't decide which is better as they both have advantages and disadvantages. I will continue to use LibraryThing on our library blog for new books. Google docs seems to work well for our book orders. I may find uses for some of the other things I've learned and many will fall by the wayside never to be thought of again. I now have about 12 new accounts!

Stick #21 Social networks

I looked at some of the other social networks, but I'm not a big fan of this sort of thing. Two years ago I joined Bebo, but promptly lost interest. I was surprised that I was able to still get into it. About a month ago I joined the 23 Things Ning, but a few days later when I tried to sign in I couldn't and ended up with a second account. I haven't been in since. I also belong to myfamily.com which I do go into more often.

Stick #20 Facebook

I just joined Facebook since some family have accounts. As soon as I finished joining there was a friend inviting me! So I had an immediate friend. I really don't see the purpose in these social networking sites and will probably lose interest in this after awhile. I just don't understand what others see in them.

Stick #19 Podcasts

Since my theme is bluegrass that is, of course, what I searched. I found a great site with half hour bluegrass shows by a family band.

http://www.banjonut.com/bluegrassblog/

I tried the different sites and found non really easier than another. Each had different strangths so it is whatever one gets used to. I did put the above on my Bloglines (didn't work on Google Reader) to listen to as time permits.

Stick #18 YouTube

I've looked around in YouTube before and it can be very addicting as you start watching all the videos. I'm putting a silly video that my son and niece did on my blog.



YouTube could be used to give a tour of the library, or show parts of a program. I don't have a video camera or I might do something.

Stick #17 Minnesota 2.0

ELM is overwhelming and I found it hard to figure it all out. There is so much information that it can be hard to figure out what to use.

#1 GALE : Tried to add an RSS feed, but my reader said there was an error.

#2 EBSCO : I did the page composer, but then couldn't figure out how to view it when I was done.

#3 PROQUEST : Quite easy to use.

#4 NETLIBRARY : I would not want to read a book off the computer. We did tell a patron about this when we did not have what they needed. They were very happy about this.