It is almost one year since we took this course and I ALMOST have all of my proposal implemented. There were elements that were super easy, some that took longer than expected, and ones that may never truely get off the ground. But I know I have made changes to this library, for the better!

Hi, Five Weeks,

I'm trying to knock out my poster for ASIST, and one thing that would help me is a few screenshots! So if you've got a weblog or wiki or other screenshot-able site I could feature, please comment here or drop me an email at dorothea AT textartisan DOT com.

Also, I know a few of you have been training others. That's a phenomenal outcome, and I want to highlight it. If I just described you, please drop me a line and tell me about it.

Thanks!

Just wanted to pass this along:

http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/Second_Life.html

Gave an informal talk about the course to Cilip in London. Despite the proximity to our bank holiday, was able to tell a roomful of people about the good things that have been happening here.

As the talk was informal, it meandered around in response to comments and questions from the floor, but, for anyone who's interested, I've posted the basic text of what I said here:

http://annewelsh.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/cilip-in-london-social-libraries-talk/

I also wanted to say how much I enjoyed being able to take part in the course and how brilliant it is to see new blogs springing into life.

Limits, limits, limits: have I found one?

Has anyone had trouble with a character limit in the "Notes" field of del.icio.us? For someone who loves to cut & paste large chunks of text for later, I just realized I had lost lots of chunks!

I am prepraing a conference presentation and thought, since it's on social software, I would use some of our great tools. No dice for long notes, it seems... 

Just to let everyone know that there will be a poster session on Five Weeks to a Social Library at the ASIST 2007 conference this October in Milwaukee.

I must say, I'm quite chuffed!

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My favorite experience in the course was actually connecting with other librarians and getting to hear their thoughts and experiences and getting to share mine with them. Of course, learning about all the new technology was helpful as well. For my personal use, I found Flickr to be the most interesting; I had been on the site before because one of my friends posts all her pictures there, and so there are more pictures of my cats on the internet than there are of me. It was the site that I was the most unfamiliar with all the details of that I can now see how much fun it could be. And for my library's use, I think that wikis are the most applicable, along with blogs.

Thus far, social bookmarking seems like something that would be really fun to play around with, but I can't think of a way in which I would be able to use it in my library. It would be helpful to save sites on when I am using different computers, but it seems a little complicated for my needs at this time.

I went into Google Reader and subscribed to different types of news and blogs. It seems like a really useful way to keep up on whatever type of news you're interested in without having to search different sites every day, but my main concern is that I would quickly become overwhelmed by the amount of news. I would personally be more likely to use it occasionally, like if I wanted to follow a specific news topic for a short period.