Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Thing 15

I wish there was a way we could easily try Twitter. I know people who Twitter, but I just don't get the attraction. It seems like a waste of time to me.

--Jeannie

Thing 14

I have used Yahoo (dilgerh) and AIM (JeannieLibrarian) to IM, but I didn't have a GoogleTalk account, so I set one up. I am JeannieLibrarian, in case anyone wants to find me.

I personally LOVE IM for communicating quickly with colleagues in other parts of the building. I am hoping more staff start using GoogleTalk and signing on all the time.

I have used Meebo, but I'm not terribly fond of it, because I always seem to miss messages when they come in. Someone suggested another aggregator, Trillian? Trillium? Maybe I should try that.

--Jeannie

Thing 13

I don't have any books handy here in my office, so I'm going to skip this one and come back to it.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Thing 12

I have used Delicious before. When I was moving to Chicago, I created a whole bunch of bookmarks for job hunting sites. It made it convenient to go back weekly and check for new job postings. Since then, however, I haven't really used Delicious.

I don't think I'd want to share everything with the world. I might, however, like to share just sites for vacations, or on a specific topic. I can see how that would be useful.

--Jeannie

Thing 11

I just tagged "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" with the tags "locavore," and "slow food." Pretty easy, but it only applies to the book version. I'd have to tag the book on CD, book on cassette, book-club-in-a-bag, etc. (I begin to see the challenges of catalogers!)

--Jeannie