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Week Seven: Microblogging

What do you think about using one of these microblogging tools?
Did you find it easy to find people to follow, especially after a list of examples was given?
Who are three people or organizations you starting following this week and why did you follow them? Have you found their posts helpful?
What kinds of uses do you see you might have for microblogging? Have you already found some uses for it?

Week Two: Online Communities

Assignment: Write a new blog post on your blog reflecting on what you have learned this week, answering these questions:

What Online Community did you choose? What do you like most about it?
I already had Facebook (for personal) and LinkedIn (for professional) accounts established, so I just poked around in both of those a bit more, trying to expand my comfort level. I'm really not very fond of Facebook as it seems quite clunky to me, and at home I have to struggle with dial-up loading times. I like LinkedIn's clean interface and the ability to import my resume, as well as the ability to post a public profile or to choose not to.

How have you used this Community? How do you see yourself using it in the future? I use Facebook to keep up with a few favorite authors (one of my job responsibilities is as a Readers Advisor) as a "fan" and with various friends. I don't post often, but I like to read what they are up to.

Can you see your library using this Online Community? How? I really don't think too many people in my community are going to want to visit the library's Facebook page. Many of the sites I have seen are just too lame, and a significant percentage of our service population comes to the library for their internet access. Also, we're very small, and I can't see us finding the time to post regularly. It would be Very Bad if we created and publicized the account, and then didn't keep it current. We're all assigned multiple responsibilities anyways, and adding more to the mix just isn't feasible.

Add a link to your blog to your Online Community profile so others can find you. No thanks - I'll pass on this part. I investigated how to do it in both LinkedIn and Facebook, but prefer not to actually implement for this blog. Also, if the library ever does create a blog, we would not use TypePad but a more robust application. But I'm seriously leaning more toward Twitter ... with its "deliver to cellphone" capacity, I think it would be more useful to us.

Edited to add: no, putting the title in the first line and separating it from the body with line breaks doesn't work. All the line breaks between paragraphs disappeared ... boooo. I had to go back in and edit the title, and haven't figured out how to paragraph yet.

2nd post - learning my way around TypePad

The Dashboard is where I need to be in order to post.

The hardest part about this blog is thinking up interesting things to say!

Week One: Blogging

Assignment One: "Tell us a little bit about who you are, what library you work for, and why you’re taking part in 23 Things" :

I work in a very small independent public Ohio library in a rural area. My areas of responsibility include researching/evaluating new technology for its applicability to our purposes. Ohio doesn't have a 23 Things-type session although I understand one of the big consortia (ClevNet) did something similar a while back for its members. Since the 23 Things program goes step-by-step through a number of the technologies I've been meaning to investigate independently, I thought it would be good to participate with the option to get feedback and further explanations of concepts and practicalities that have stumped me.

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Exploring the value of a library blog ...

I cannot figure out how to log out?  // edited : use the Dashboard

Also, is there a way to title each post at the beginning, or must I go in and edit it to do that? // edited: no responses from the Google group yet, but I think if I put the title I want at the beginning of the post, it will show up that way (similar to Yahoo!'s notepad function)

Welcome to TypePad! This is a sample post you can edit or delete later.