Thing #23

Ahhhgggg. I just spent 10 minutes writing how pleased I was to have the opportunity to do these exercises and I lost it. So here I go again. I am grateful to administration for encouraging us to take time to learn and play with new technology. I learned a great deal and am very excited to start using more of these great sites. I also believe I am better able to serve my customers with this new knowledge. This has been one of the best things I have done. I love learning new things. I will be encouraging everyone to explore these great applications. Got to run....I'm on the desk.

Thing #22

OK, I always was intimidated by MOLDI. I can't believe how easy it was to download a book. Next I'll try to download to my blackberry. I think it's the name. It just sounds scary.

Thing #21

Podcasts. Oh, if only I had all the time in the world. I love the ease of podcasts; listening to my favorites like selected shorts and storycorp, etc. when I have the time. My Yahoo made it extremely easy to download. I also downloaded Salt Lake Cities Library Podcast, but was disappointed as it hasn't been updated in a long while. I have lots of uses for using podcasts. I just wish I had the time!

Thing #20

I am trying to post a video from YouTube, but so far it isn't working even though I know this is easy as pie. YouTube is a great source for fun and education. The clips we watched for learn and play were found on YouTube and they were great.

Thing #19

CML's Power Tools. I had known this existed, but never had the time to look at it more closely. I like what I saw. Interesting blog. I explored stumbleupon and am interested in going back and exploring boingboing and MAKE. I only wish the link to our power tools was a lot bigger. Hopefully our customers will stumble across it.

Thing #18

Social Networking Sites. Wow. I could spend a long time on these. I looked at Craigs List (something I have heard many people talk about but never look at myself), Pandora's Box (listening to some Nora Jones right now) and a couple other ones. I'm not certain exactly how I could use these applications for work, but I can certainly see how they might make life easier. I will come back to this and explore more when I have some time.

Thing #17

I just got done exploring google docs and it looks like a great tool for collaboration. I only wish I had known about this a month ago when I was writing the RFP and requesting feedback from others. I also liked google calendars. I wonder if we could combine staff schedules on this and use it to come up with a public service schedule.... I look forward to exploring this site in more detail. On to Thing #18.