The last thinging in thing land

Which thing/s I found most useful.
The things I found most useful were Twitter, SlideShare, Diigo and Zotero. I enjoy blogging but I was already familiar with the form. I don't wish to touch Facebook or wiki-whateverer, even with a 20 foot barge pole ever again, but it was useful knowing what they are all about and why they exist.

Which thing/s I most enjoyed doing.

Pretty much the things I found most useful. I might say that I am impressed with Zotero and Endnote web. If only I had known of them as a student!

Which thing/s I have persisted with.

Yep, same things as noted above.

Whether I think web 2.0 in general has a role in the future of libraries.

I certainly think it does. Facebook, however much I hate it with a passion, will always be a fantastic way to give access to our patrons (who all use the blessed thing). Twitter have found annoying with the library updates coming through, so I ...shock, horror, 'unfollowed' it, but perhaps others are more forgiving of it than me. Obviously, the more academically focused tools will be useful to our patrons and to the library staff. Overall, I think the potential that is there and is yet to be tapped is very exciting.

Thus, I sign off very much satisfied with the Warwick 23 things program.

The end of all possible thinging

I had a looked over my blog and I am confident that I have 'done' all the thinging up to thing 22. I wait in with baited breath for thing 23, the best of all possible things. I have taken the opportunity to look back on the things and just at the moment the 'things' I keep thinging with are:

Zotero (I will be a student soon)
Diigo (Though I do find it slightly annoying)
Twitter
G-docs/g-stuff in general (though I used that before)
Firefox (because its just better)

Still lets see what things are to come...

More thinging with the office of doom

This week was very interesting. I have been familiar with Wiki-type media for some time and have used various wikis (including to my great shame -pedia) in the past. I have never edited one as I have little knowledge to add, or am not an expert in any field. I need not rant about the inherent horribleness of wikipedia, but is it fun to so I will. As a cataloguer a quick look at wikipedia can (i.e. it is possible) give me just enough cursory knowledge to proceed to classify a book, though I always have lingering doubts. If I want something substantive I use actual resources as discovered by reputable search tools rather than just a Google and the Wiki. I might (as radical as this is) look in the book or books, or a bibliography, or a library catalogue, or an index. But for the quick fix, the tabloid view, the hardly referenced, ad hoc, junk food form of information wikipedia will do... maybe. As for other uses of wikis I can see considerable benefits for collaboration, information exchange and such like.

I have used Google Docs fairly extensively almost as soon as I had Google account. I have found it extremely useful not having important documents confined to one PC, or have many drafts or old versions of the same document cluttering my computers, this particularly applies to my CV and other docs that need continual updates. I would recommend Google docs for the ability to collaborate on documents and for the easy conversion of these documents into PDFs, .docs and so on.

SlideShare is something that I am very impressed with as well. I do not see immediate use for the tools on SlideShare but I can see the great potential for it uses, as already demonstrated by its use in 23 Things blogs.

Thinging for this week a complete success. Though I might add my disapprobation at the instruction sheets. They are often as clear as mud to follow, particularly for beginners. I often get through with trail and error and ignore the sheets.