Finished - ahahahahahah!

So, in this last post from Prof M's garden, I have to look to the following questions posed by the the 23 things team:

How could you draw on what you have learned in 23 Things to help you in your work?
As already pointed out, I think there is a use for some of these technologies on things like the Infolinks page.

How could the library use the technologies featured in 23 Things to improve its service?
We could make the library web site more Web 2.0 savvy - enter Encore!

How do you think the 23 Things program could be improved in the future?
Done in smaller chunks (ten things) but every 6 months.

Do you think you'll keep blogging or keep using any of the other tools you learned about?
Many of them I was using already. I may do a blog on my next OS cycling trip It should be fun.

This is Prof M, signing off - oh dear - there appear to be a number of bulldozers converging on the garden and what are those large suspiciously brick-like objects descending through the atmosphere..?

Oh bollocks...

MSN - The Devil Incarnate!

I used to use MSN all the time, but I found that it used to really slow the performance of my PC. I also found all the popups coming up whilst I was working on something to be quite annoying. Still i does help while away time that might be otherwise spent actually talking to people. Something I sill have to contend with when I use my partners PC. Arrggghhh!! How dare he talk to anyone other than me! :P

I've also been dealing with Meebo a lot of late. We've been actively investigating its use as a reference tool (after the Law Library started using it). In fact, when I run my classes on Infolinks, we've been actively encouraging its use as an online query service.

Prof M

Podcast

I subscribe to several podcasts through iTunes. I regularly listen to the Nova and Vega podcasts.

I also watch the The Movie Show podcast.

I also listen to a great UK podcast called Cadmium2 - the podcast of British cult TV, film and radio.

I recently created VU libraries first podcast for Library Events which is also available on iTunes!

Needless to say, me and my iPod and iPhone are inseparable.

Prof M

YouTube

I've been using YouTube for ages. Mainly to catch up on my fave overseas soaps.

It's great, I have some fave sites, and those sites have all their vids sorted according to category.

I also receive alerts telling me when new vids are available.

I've embedded a little video that examines the future view of librarians! :-)

My New Pet

This is my new pet.

I bought it Sunday.

We are going to be very happy together!

I've added it to the VU Pets Blog.

It was interesting using a wiki. It assumes a high level of user trust, something that is not always borne out in this age of computer viruses, Trojan horses and malware.

Still it works for wikipedia!

Prof M.

Library 2.0

Since I'm one of the lucky people implementing Encore, I've had an ongoing 2.0 experience for quite some time.

In fact I just delivered a paper at the AIUG where I got up on a metaphoric soapbox and extolled that Web 2.0 was the future and that libraries and librarians had to adapt to this new paradigm. We have to move away from the more linear (and outdated) models of the past and embrace new Web 2.0 experiences.

Reporting from the ground
Prof M.

Delicious

I've watched the video and signed up to delicious.

I even did some tagging. and added a tag roll to my blog.

Yum yum.

:-)