Week 7 = microblogging

Hello there!
I'd never set up a Twitter account, thinking I wouldn't have much to tweet. I can now see myself becoming a user who primarily follows others (I thought that sounded a bit "lurky" until I found out other people do it too.) I really enjoyed the Clay Shirky video - I know Twitter is for more than just mundane updates, but he fleshed that idea out much further.
To answer more of this week's questions, yes, this was super-easy to set up. I started following my library and local news, and I sent requests to some e-mail contacts. I don't know that I have immediate professional need to tweet beyond what my library does already - we utilize both Twitter and Facebook regularly. As for personal use, probably the same connectedness/news-following uses that most people have.
While I'm here, I'll say 23 Things Kansas is great! I always learn something and have jotted down ideas (yep, I still jot) of what to re-visit in the future. In addition to the core lessons, I'm always exposed to some feature or news source that wasn't previously familiar to me. My 23 Things-time happens to be at the beginning of my library workweek, and it's always a good time.

Week 6: Social Bookmarking

Must finish up this week's activities on my computer at home...coming soon. :)
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OK, that was fun! I found the two hours devoted to 23things this week really flew - so many videos and tangents to explore. I finally shared w/Rebecca and did get her username showing as a tag, which some other participants had commented on.

I created a bundle (small for now) including a blog that I follow via Google Reader, just to see how that would look. It's interesting that I can tag from different angles using both an aggregator and social bookmarking, if I'm feeling really tag-happy.

~week 5: rss & feed readers~

I'm happy this week's topic is RSS. I already have a handful of subscriptions via Google Reader, and I've been meaning to play around more with the "discover" feature, add feeds, manage my current subscriptions, etc. This is perfect timing for me. And with the recent launch of Buzz, I have a feeling my inbox will be the gateway to where I spend more of my online time. Stephen Abram said something in the archived webinar that I watched a few weeks back about letting the information "wash over you", and I really like that idea. It beats the "I don't know where to start" thought I had when I ignored my reader for a few days and came back to hundreds of new items!

For today's activity, I watched several of Drew Noah's videos via the links on 23thingskansas and beyond. I found some of the later segments particularly helpful. I paused the videos to hop over to my reader to do things like put all the 23 Things users' blogs that I follow into one folder, and I learned more about features like tagging. It will be fun to explore more and customize different ways of organizing information. I also explored some recommended items and read up on some of Google's own reader-related articles. I'll continue to add, organize and enjoy more feeds...

week 4 = photosharing!

Aha! I knew it. I knew I had at least two small (non-Facebook) photo collections out there. And they're all attached to an e-mail account I've since closed! Of course I don't remember any of those passwords, either. I set these up before I had a decent, not-built-into-my-laptop camera (my phone took rather crummy pictures, so I wasn't too motivated...) point is, I can't log in to any of that now. As I'm doing 23 Things at work, sans camera, I'll be taking Option A for this week: perusing others' images and commenting on the experience here.

Of course the list of search ideas was meant as a springboard, but how could I see the words "library cats" and not have a look? Oh look, I found something cute, imagine that. (Please pretend it is here and not off to the side. Thank you.) This photo was taken by eyemage. We have similar cats.

For today, I'm looking around flickr and reading about things I can do when I set up a new account (such as posting my photos from flickr to my blog, embedding slideshows etc.)

My old flickr account is still out there, there being here: