That's all folks!

Now it's time to say goodbye to CML's 23 things. I enjoyed this experience greatly. I use the skills and tools I have learned at work, home and school. I realed that I was not as knowledgeable about web 2.0 tools as I thought. I'm glad I got to participate in this project with all my wonderful co-workers. Thank you everyone that help make all of this possible. (And thanks for paying me while doing all of it!) :)

Tweet Tweet Tweet and away we go!

I think twitter is the most commonly used social tool among my friends besides facebook (I deleted my myspace and I don't think many people I know are using it anymore). It's a really good networking tool. If you maybe post about how you're job searching someone that is "following" you could write "@" you and give you advice. I use twitter here n' there. I just link my twitter and my facebook so if I change my twitter status, it will also change my facebook status. cool.

LibraryThing

This is a cool way to share books that you enjoy with others. I might create one, but I don't think I would return to it very often. I usually just post the books I enjoy on my facebook and on my blog.

Library Blog/Newsfeed

This is an informative article I found while searching library blogs:

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=231898

Bloglines

Bloglines definitely was the most painful Thing. I remember spending hours that week helping different people (and trying to figure it out myself) navigate through the directions and the site. I don't think I will be using Bloglines anytime soon. I guess it is nice to see when different sites add a new article, but I'm not an avid reader of just any one site.

Flickr

Flickr seems to be a very easy to use site. I like how you can search through anyone's albums that are public for a specific subject. I have not used it yet. My family uses the Kodak online albums and my boyfriend's family uses Shutterfly. I just post most of my pictures on Facebook. I don't have a camera yet, but when I get one I'll do more research on which site to use.

Registering my blog on CMLsi

I now have to backtrack since I did not make a blog post about some earlier Things. My first one is registering my blog on CMLsi. Pretty easy except my blog was not a link until weeks later :( It's fun to click on people's blogs and guess who they are. Now we can spy on some 200 people!!!

moldi...ew

MOLDI did not have books I was too thrilled about. I would really like it if they would put some good Arabic books on there. It would be a great way to study the language.

Podcasting

Podcasting is super sweet. I don't use it personally, but I know many that do. I found a podcast on podcastalley.com that dealt with news about Harry Potter. It's called MuggleCast. So fun. I haven't watched it yet, but I bet it's pretty funny. I probably wouldn't watch it all the time, but it would be pick-me-up every now and then.

Digg

Digg is super sweet because you can share ANYTHING from the web and not just a video or a picture. Anything. Kewl.

YouTube

Billy O'Reilly, wow. I love this video haha.

I'm Cooked

I searched the best web 2.0 sites for food. I clicked on the one that one first place and thought it was great! People can tape themselves cooking their favorite dish and easily upload it to the site. Instead of just looking at recipes, you can actually watch average people making yummy food you can make at home. Just create an amazing dish, and you could be internet famous! They give you a program that you can download for free to edit and add different effects to your video before you post it. It would be really cool too to see celebrities cooking their fave food on a video they made themselves.

Google Docs

I like it, I REALLY like it. I am sick and tired of emailing attachments to people that I want comments from. It would be sweet to just use Google Docs and have them right their comments right on the document. This would be awesome for the student organizations I'm in at OSU. I could make a flier or a powerpoint of upcoming events and share it with all of the exec board and they could add their events they want to share. Then me or anyone else could just open it at the meeting and show it. How convenient!

This would be great for a group project I'm going to work on for my Arabic culture class. We could make a Google powerpoint and everyone could add their own slides! Super easy!

Murals

My aunt forwarded me this in an email. How cool! It's made up of a bunch of other artwork and you can click on each box to see what the original looks like.

http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cochrane.html

Learn and Play Wiki

I edited a few pages on the Learn and Play wiki. I think this is a fun idea and a good way to get to know people. We should keep this up because I could really use it. I love getting new book and restaurant ideas.

wika wa wiki

I think wikis are great. I can't remember when I didn't go to wikipedia for information for school or just common knowledge. It's so convenient that anyone can change them, because it's usually not the tech person that's the first to know about the changes in information, but he/she is the only one that usually can access the website and edit it. I like how libraries are simplifying searches for patrons and keeping them up to date on the easiest way to find information. It's nice as a calendar to to keep customers and staff up to date on events going on. There is always something changing and we need to get the info the viewer as fast as possible to avoid chaos.

Library and Web 2.0

Library 2.0 means a way of catching up to the rest of the world. Our patrons are rapidly entering the web 2.0 world, and we need to provide them with the most beneficial tools we can to accomodate this new way of life. We have to keep up with the ever changing technology so getting up to speed by having this Library 2.0 idea is great. As long as we can keep up and keep training ourselves, especially with Learn and Play here at CML, we will learn how to be as successful with assisting patrons as possible.

Yummy...or Delicious!

Delicious seems like a good networking/reference tool for those who would like to find information from a variety of places. It's nice because it's a one stop site to search for all kinds of sites in a certain subject area. I can see people using this as a social networking tool since you can see the bookmarks/tags of others and get a feel of what they are interested in. It's also nice to use at the library to answer any kinds of reference or general book questions. It looks like some bookmarks for humfa have a lot more information about the book (and sometimes exerpts) to inform a customer or staff about a book.

Library Thanggg

I used Library Thing to add some of my fave books. It was quick and easy. It seems as thought it is a good tool to view reader reviews and receive other book recommendations.

meow

Image Generatoring...Who knew? I liked using the FD Toys generator. It was easy, fun and a great way to spice up any photo!