Delicious

I was JUST wishing I had my bookmarks from my work computer while I was at another computer in a workshop. This is perfect! As soon as I get home, my personal computer bookmarks. Though I am not entirely sure of the name. I would have never put the name of the site and the purpose of the site together.

http://delicious.com/troolycrazy

Tagging

Tagging most certainly belongs in the library! The best way I can see tagging used is for personal assignments and for classes. Say you have three papers due in two different classes. While researching paper one, all articles/books/resources can be tagged classApaper1. Then alter the tag for the other papers and classes. Does this created a clutter of irrelevant tags for other users? I do not think so! Because others in the class present and future would be able to find relevant articles quickly. A tag search can be truncated and therefore still useful if the class name is apart of the tag. Professors could also implement tags into their lectures. Professors are constantly assigning outside reading. Instead of having an article or package of articles put on reserve, a tag could be used instead. Tagging very much complements the subject headings. A user can use subject heading to find specific tags and tags to find specific subject headings. Also, tagging should make the subject heading more visible to users. They will both aide the research process and locating of material. For all of the above possibilities and other potential tagging has to offer, this should definitely be encouraged.

Twitter

That was easy!

My twitter is the same as my IM, troolycrazy.

Finding people and organizations was easier than facebook. I am following our library and some people here. Along with one of my favorite music artist. She is coming out with a new album. Exciting! I am also able to follow news from my future Alma mater.

The last time I heard about twitter was last week. Our library had signed up for a webniar and were invited to follow on twitter. By using the webinars hashtag this was an easy thing to do. Very entertaining as well.

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.