Thing # 20 Facebook and myspace.

Now you can find me on facebook.com; as I am working on the 23things. Throw some spaghetti on my wall! I found other 23thing participants here.
In Facebook I joined 2 groups, Libraians and Technology, and Lib 2.0 group to communicate with someone else in my same job.
Facebook may be the fastest growing social network: It is a quick way to connect. You find out what's going on. My view of it is that I found it more complicated in that it offers more choices (is the term mashups?) of ways to connect all in one. Yes you get an integrated conglomeration of technology. In other words it takes some study. Libraries could use this to be connected to a lot of people at once.

MySpace How are libraries using MySpace? There are two links I will look at tomorrow. I looked at Hennepin's myspace. It was really important to relate to the teens.
Did you find anything on a library's MySpace page that would be useful for your library?
If you created your own MySpace page, how do you plan to use it?
It would require a IT person to manage the MySpace account. We are just too small of a library for the expence. We have a web page now, so this may develop in the future. It would provide more immediate communication to and from public.

Thing #18 You tube and other sites

These videos are shown on local news sometimes. It is one "thing" I will have to use the library computers as this is dial up. One of the public computers I used yesterday didn't allow saving the avi file on the desktop, so I tried uploading from my camera and that was a no go. But maybe I can try one more thing. I have a 30 sec. video to upload. I will try my facebook account or flickr. I did view several library themed youtube videos. They are entertaining sometimes.

Thing # 19 Podcasts

Podcasts in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Librarians are asked to help download music a lot So I am interested in learning more about this.
http://www.podcast.net/
I love music and would like better access to my favorites.
You don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to listen to podcasts, although a portable device is handy. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you just need a PC with headphones or a speaker.
Listened to two of the Resourses podcasts of librarians talking about their work. Then listened to MPR and am planning a tune download with Amy tomorrow.
Ok, so I need to pay to download most music, I have to find some freebies.

Thing # 17 Elm productivity tools

Wow this looks really interesting. I did a EBSCO search for Library 2.0, Libraries and Technology (search words) and found several articles to use in my MN Voluntary Certification Study. Next I will work on the Search Alert, and Page Composer.
Will update...later
I did a subject search on “smoking youth” in InfoTrac Student Edition and set up an RSS feed to my google reader to track the search results for 1 month. Then I did another search on Library and Technology to track new results. BTY the short video link in Here are the Things did not play a video.

Thing # 16 Student 2.0 Tools

I would be interested in seeing how many students use this tool. It looks very helpful. I think home school students would benefit from this organizational tool, also.
In Feb / March we have the science project with lots 5th graders in seeking information.
Most of the students know just what they need and where to find it. They are so far ahead of most adults in knowing what's accessible.
I recommend online library research tools to adults who are taking college classes online.