Monday Musings

I haven't really finished any more of the explorations yet but I did look at Flickr for a while on Friday, my hold up with flickr is that I already upload all of my digital photos to another website and don't know if I want to manage things in two places. I think I will breakdown and upload a few to flickr just to get the full exploration experience.

I am twittering away and I am really enjoying the tidbits I am learning about staff from all around the system (some of which I have not been able to match up with names). It's fun to share little things about our day and good to be able to get quick feedback on any topic I want to tweet about.

Surprisingly I have not been spending all of my time 2.0ing but have actually carved out a few minutes to do some reading this weekend... I have been reading the Morganville Vampire series by Rachel Caine (a YA series) and it is entertaining enough and is holding me over until I have my hands on my hold copy of Breaking Dawn. The reviews have been so mixed and I am looking forward to being able to chime in on the internet discussion over whether the book was fantastic or a fantastic failure. That will have to wait until at least tomorrow though because my book did not appear in delivery today. I also read The Adoration of Jenna Fox over the weekend by Mary Pearson and found it really intriguing, I think a lot of teens would enjoy this story. If you like teen books or even if you don't you should check it out :-)

Ok - enough rambling for one day!

Happy Blogging, Tweeting and FBing.

I'm All A Twitter

Ok - so I jumped ahead in the explorations because everyone was talking about twittering and well I wanted to be a part of the group. Let me just say that twittering is addictive. This is bizarre but I feel like I have "talked to" some staff members from other branches more in the past week since using the blog, facebook, and twitter than I have ever. It's a definite sense of community and I am a social networking fan to begin with so I am like a kid in a candy store right now. Why have I not twittered before this?

I can definitely see how this can help in the workplace... I think its important enough that it creates a sense of community but I have also seen some great work type twitters going on, sharing information about programs/books/and happenings in our branches. Much fun! Have I mentioned yet that I really like twitter? Is anyone out there using it on their mobile devices or are we mostly web-based twitterers?

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

GoodReads and Facebook and LibraryThing Oh My!

Ok so I have sort of stalled in my exploration of Web 2.0.... but I did finally make the big decision between LibraryThing and GoodReads to keep track of my book habit. I chose GoodReads and if I had to explain why I am not sure I really could come up with anything concrete except that I just like it better. I find it easier to tag items and also find the social networking element of it to be more user friendly (but it could just be that there are several people I know with accounts and I like to see what they are reading... uh oh, does that make me nosy?)

Of course I am also still updating my iread application on facebook as well but I guess updating two accounts instead of three is progress.

Happy Thursday everyone. I suppose my blog is officially up and running. It took me forever to get the picture of my cat to not be HUGE and right in the middle of the page so I am refraining from any other enhancements to my blog at least until next week (so my head doesn't explode).

I actually read tons of blogs using Google Reader. I read several author blogs. I love John Green's vlog (video blog) that he does with his brother Hank. They are pretty hilarious. Other than that I read lots of work related blogs with library type news and some readers advisory type blogs that cause me to add way too many books to my "to read" list. I have also had a blog before where I kept track of what I was reading but I have since turned to other tools for that and am currently going back and forth between librarything, goodreads and the facebook iread application. If you have any opinions on those three I would love to hear them because it is getting quite old to update all three of them every time I read a book.

In general I love Web 2.0 and use a lot of social networking type sites already but I am interested in taking a peak at some things I don't know much about yet. I have never twittered and I don't have a flickr account yet so I am looking forward to those adventures.

Testing

I am having trouble getting the format of this blog just how I want it without an actual post to see what it looks like so here is my first attempt.