NING

I am not impressed with ning even though it has a good concept. Google allows you to serach for pages and you get the orgs. actually web site. Facebook lets you serach too and you can comment and become involved. Then there is also usually a link to the web site. I feel (and I could be wrong) that ning will becoming a thing of the past. There are too many others avenues to take to find what you are interested in finding on the web. I also feel facebook does a better job. Of course it just could be that facebook is more estabilished and ning is an up and comming site. Time will tell.

IM

Trillian
troolycrazy

Instant messaging is something I have been doing since junior high. I lived far away from my school and kept up with my friends via IM. I also have made some new friends via IM. One of my closest friends today actually was because I randomly decided to IM someone. Today I am not really into meeting new people online but keeping in touch with those closest to me. I mostly use my trillian account to text family and friends. Yes, I said text. I have added a small handful of family and close friend's phone numbers to my buddy lists. This way when they are not online I can still contact them. Instant Messining is my conection to everyone I care about and my means of contacting people in emergencies.

More Facebook

I have 40 groups and 18 pages. Most of these are silly things that I feel describe my personality. Others are groups I affiliate with such as the high school I graduated from, the college I went to, and my place of employment. I get a lot of friend requests from people I do not know. As a rule I only friend people I actually know. However, through my college I have one friend who randomly contacted me. This friend is only an internet friend but we talk on a semi regular basis. It is kind of like having a pen pal.

2.0

As I emerge myself more into the 2.0 technology I begin to make being involved on a personal and professional level a higher priority. The web 2.0 videos really hit home for me on a personal and professional level. If the web is us then I am impacting the world by adding information to the web. When I think of adding information I automatically begin to think of work. I am a cataloger and what I do is add information to our records. Not only is this information added to the marc record but it is also an addition to the world wide collection of information. My boss says that we do not catalog for our university but for google. Google crawls many many sites and gleans all it can. For a library whose business is to collect information, I feel that every librarian and satff should be emersing themselves web 2.0 technology. The web is how our wrold operates. It is where we go for information. In the information business, we need to be a runner in the ever evolving technology that is bringing the world together.

Facebook

I have had a facebook since I was in college. I use this to keep up with friends I do not see on a regular basis, share photos with family far away, and join groups who are important to me. Our library just created a social web site/ personality policy for sites such as facebook, wikis, blogs, and etc. There was a facebook group created for one of our branch libraries by a student who was advertising for us. While we appreciated the excited we did not have any control over the content. Action is going to be taken to have the group taken down and discussion about various departments creating groups. It is apparently wanted by our students. In my department, we have a wiki through the university that we post to. I hope to see plans for more social networking for our IR.

Google Reader

THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!

I use goggle for everything! I hate having to bookmark the sites that I follow and this is so much easier. Google is the first place I go anyways and now I am going to do my personal best to make it the only place (aside from online bills).

Comic Strip

I made a comic strip page once on a program on my computer. Sadly I did not play with the program more. For this reason I choose comic strip generator for thing 5. Once at the site though I had no idea what I wanted to create. After much browsing and trying to decide something funny to say I decided I was not funny. Instead I went with my favorite quote I try to live by and one of my favorite cartoon characters. Getting to this step was the most difficult thing about this task. Adding my quote, saving my image and posting to my blog seemed like a cake walk. This was a lot of fun and I hope to find time to play with this more in the future.