Thing 14

I created an igoogle page and it is easy to use. I liked choosing the themes. I already had the reader set up and added the National Geographic picture of the day, played around with the calendar, looked at the different tools, and will probably add more to it as time permits.

Thing 13

I really like thing 13, Library Thing. It is simple to use. I keep a written journal of teen books I have read, but this is portable. The widget to link to Library Thing would not work. Copying and pasting the html code just did not work. This happened before on another task and wasted a lot of time, so...I'm simply not going there again! However, here is the link to my page: http://www.librarything.com/home/cfday

Thing 12

The Youth Services for St. Johns County Public Library have a pb & j wiki. It is very nice for coordinating meetings and agendas, just as the video showed. I liked looking at what other libraries are doing with their wikis, especially the subject guide. I added an agenda item for this month's meeting of youth services.

Thing 11

No, I had not forgotten about 23 things. I purchased a new laptop computer and have been busily working on getting it set up to do the things I need it to do. Numerous challenges have been met and conquered. A big thank you to Eric from our MIS department for helping me get my work Outlook to work on my new laptop. Another challenge was getting Flash to work. My Vista computer had a 64 bit browser, which made it run fast, but Flash would not work with it. I had to install a 34 bit browser to watch the neflin23 thing videos. This took me a while to figure out too.

Finally for the thing 11 assignment. I looked at the four social networking sites and yes I did read an article I never would have read otherwise. It was about toxins in children's shampoos and other toiletries posted by Mommylines at mixx I think it was, I can't quite remember which of the four I was reading at the time. Quite scary considering my grandchildren. However the site I could really get lost in was Newsline. This could really consume me and perhaps be counterproductive. I really have to watch myself when it comes to news stories. I shared a story via mixx about Google Voice which is going to allow people to combine all of their phones. It sounds sort of like the google gmail aggregator where people can combine all of their emails.