Facebook and 23 things

I have had a Facebook account for some time now. I have 2 sons who live out of state and facebook is a great way to keep up with what they are doing and to be able to send them private messages rather than emails--I think they check Facebook more often than email accounts. I also find it a great way to communicate with friends. The downside of Facebook are the items people "send"--hearts, wanting to play games, etc. I ignore these but wish folks did not seem to think that we all have lots of time to be on Facebook all day! I also think some of the postings by people are inane and a waste of time. I do appreciate that I can "hide" some people's postings and look at them when I have time, rather than have lots of silly posts to look at every day. I also like being able to post photos and have also made contact with several old high school friends via facebook. it's an interesting means of communication.

23 things blog

Updating for 23 things--I rarely use this blog as we have a refstaff blog and a book review blog. No time for more blogging than that!

February is almost gone!

I can't believe it is almost March already--how time flies. And speaking of time flying, Chris is 18 today. Yikes--where did the time go!!

Work on ASRP is progressing--hopefully we will hear soon from KSU about their involvement. It is exciting to plan with other departments in the library--I think a unified summer reading theme will benefit us all. The films are scheduled and should be fun!

January 10, 2008

A new year and a new blog--

Tuesday, when I tried to get into my blog, Google was apparently having some issues and my passwords needed to be changed, which resulted in my "losing" my old blog--so here I am with a new blog.

I have completed the 23 things project--there are several of the sites I think will be valuable. I especially like our reference blog as a way to communicate--I like the give-and-take of ideas aspect of the blog as a way to not only pass along ideas but solicit opinions. I also think blogging is a great way to communicate in families that are spread around the country. I regularly look at some of the library blogs, especially KSU to see what's happening there. I also like our book blog on the MPL web site and think the reviews has been great--a wide variety of types of fiction and nonfiction to appeal to lots of readers.

I like librarything and flickr. I will use librarything more often--I need to get more organized before using flickr but see that this is a site that can make sharing photos more easy. Some of the social networking sites like facebook are not appealing to me but I can see how young people are interested, although I think too much personal information is out there.

I think the 23 things project was a great way for us to learn about some of the online tools being used by others and some of the new developments about how to use these in libraries.