i dig digg!

very interesting site! I'll be spending more time there--just spent about an hour and didn't even realize it! saw some gorgeous pictures of a rock festival in england, which i sent on to my facebook friends. i created an account and added this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jpJ12lBjg. i'll have to see if anyone "diggs" it or not.

delicious!

i've been using delicious (name: cherzig)for several years now--first as a cataloger, so i have a lot of cataloging sites, then as an electronic resources librarian, so i have some of those types of sites. somewhere along the way i made a personal site but haven't done much with it.
i find social bookmarking to be extremely helpful! i have networked with several other library-related delicious accounts, such as "acclibrarians" and "FWPL". Our reference librarian also made a delicious site for library reference, for staff as well as for the publice. we have a link to it on our web site.

tagging

i think tagging is one of the most useful things for libraries to come out of web 2.0. it allows users to find information using their own way of speaking and thinking, instead of limited vocabulary subject headings that they may never think of. I had always found library of congress subject headings really difficult to work with, and was so excited when the concept of tagging became widespread.
i had tried to get a grant for librarything for our library, but alas, i failed. i think it would be extremely useful for users to be able to tag items. i've used tagging on my delicious account for several years now.

twittering away

i've been a twit for a while now. in fact i have a personal twitter page, a professional twitter page (carybcox) and our library has a twitter page that i keep updated (thecolonypl). my personal one is followed by friends and family, and i basically use the professional one to follow ala, library journal, a couple of other libraries and my favorite, Richard Wiseman, the all around cool and interesting author. Also, one called fleetwoodwack who makes crossword puzzles--like for the NY Times and all. I am in awe!
on our library twitter, we post events, links to slideshare for our monthly calendar powerpoint, and new books.

i am im-ing

before we got married, my husband and i im'd and web cammed every night. i haven't done much with it since, but i've been wanting to look into getting im reference for our library, so i started playing around with meebo.
i made a personal account and added my myspace and facebook accounts and also added google talk to my igoogle. then i downloaded meebo notifier, made a widget and put it on my desktop, and spent a few minute im-ing myself back and forth. wish i had more interesting things to say to myself, but i think i've figured it out. now i just have to get a library account and figure how and where to put it on our library web page.
well, here's my widget:

ALA Ning network

Visit American Library Association

wow, they let me in!

ning thing

I had already joined ning, although it was awhile ago and i don't really remember why. for some reason, i also have a second account and joined the network "Library 2.0" at http://library20.ning.com/, but again haven't been very active. I did comment on 2 forums today though, and applied to join the ALA network, but I'm not sure if you have to be an ALA member to join. Guess I'll see.

Facebook Groups

The difference between groups and pages is a little confusing. I joined the following groups: "FaceBookAppsForLibraries", "Stereogum" and "I Remember When the TC City Hall Was A Food Lion!". I think that last one is a page instead of a group, because you join as a fan rather than a member.
Oh, and I also set up an event for Father's Day and sent it to my family members on Facebook. That looks like a good feature.

Facebook

i had already set up a facebook account a month or so ago. several people at work were on facebook, plus several of my daughters and some friends. i also had a myspace account for several years. i liked the myspace in that i could jazz it up a lot and add music. i rarely check it anymore though.
i found an old coworker through facebook, which was fun. it's interesting to see who the people you know know. the whole kevin bacon thing, i suppose.
it also makes me wish i were a lot more interesting!
our teen group at the library want to set up a facebook account for the library's teen advisory panel to market events and books. meanwhile, our city is wanting to set up some policies first, so we are working on that. i think it's very important to have written policies in place concerning the content, and maybe even the look and feel, of social networking sites in which the library is involved.

rss: feeds for fun

as i mentioned before, i've been following quite a few blogs and rss feeds on bloglines. i also follow some personal blogs, e.g. family and friends, who are sometimes a little inappropriate to share professionally. so, i think i'll split them up to two different readers, one naughty, one library-related. guess which one i'll read first!
we also have rss feeds on our website, which is a plinkit site. we have feeds for new books that are put on the adult new book shelf and the young adult new book shelf. also have some newsfeeds for dallas morning news and others, and some book review feeds. yay, rss feeds!

i'm liking google more and more!

i've been using bloglines to easily follow the many blogs i've been subscribed to for a couple of years now. however, i noticed with google reader you don't have to search for the rss feed url, just put the blog url in. i'm going to play around with it some more because there have been some blogs that for one reason or another bloglines could not follow.
i'm really starting to be a googlemaniac--my igoogle page has lots of neat gadgets, including feeds from our library catalog and a search box for our catalog, calendar, gmail, maps, etc--and now my google reader. it's one-stop shopping, my way to shop!

baby id badge

this was fun! i'll be doing much more playing around with image generators--in my spare time...