I have to be honest and tell you that I'm kind of behind with my 23 things. I decided I have to 'Digg' into Flicker as I signed up for twitter and IM my family about uploading the pictures to Flicker. How fun! I did it!
Now seriously, who has time to do all this at the same time? I find it amusing that we have all these technologies to help us keep in touch with the rest of the world and even though we are probably writing more (creating new words and acronyms too!), there is not enough time to have a face to face conversation. Although I love having these tools and they are very helpful in our library world, I think we are loosing the warmth of having a real conversation. Anyway, this is just to tell you that I know how to use technology but I miss talking to people. That is why I find it really hard to blog. It is almost like I'm talking to myself.
Since I love having a conversation, my favorite tool is IM. Nothing like a good conversation chatting with friends and family. Specially those who live far away like my family and friends. I love using emoticons!!! Sharing pictures with my family as I chat with them is great! But what I love the most is using the camera to see people through the computer and chat at the same time. Is great to see the reaction on someones face after they hear a joke or good news! I think it will be wonderful to be able to use IM to answer reference questions.
Flicker is great too because it lets you organize pictures and share them with anyone. I uploaded some pictures from my vacation to Colombia and shared them with my coworkers. In the library setting it will be great to be able to share what kind of programs we do with our patrons. We could even share story times with our patrons who could replay them for their kids at home.
I wasn't too sure about Digg. I tried it but I don't think I have much use for it since to me it doesn't seem like a reliable source. I think it might be helpful to keep up to date if you are interested in a particular subject.
Twitter seems like a great tool for those who have the time to keep up with one more thing. I opened an account in twitter to follow the band at my son's school. I loved the fact that the band director will use twitter to let parents know what time to pick up the kids from school. Some libraries are using it to remind patrons of the different programs being offered. And with this I think I'm finally caught up and will try my next adventure: Tagging.
