23 Things: to be done or am I? I feel GOOD!!

I have completed all the 23 Things and to quote James Brown, " I feel good."

I found this program quite interesting and learned alot. I am still not where I want to be in terms of exploiting some of these technical tools. But the question might better be posed, are all these tools really useful and applicable to the library?

I loved the LibraryThing site and I think I have become a disciple of blogging. My son has started blogging as a result of this program. But there seems to be a continuing dialogue in my head about privacy and broadcasting to the world what might better be said in private. Discretion is the better part of valor or something like that. My family uses Flickr to host entire treks around the world but I still haven't mastered Flickr and am not sure I want my cousins and the world to see all my personal pics.

I like RSS feeds but don't get Twitter,del.icio.us, Technorati,or Rollyo.

Given the risk averseness of most public ententes and the constant supervision required in monitoring the appropriateness of content I am wondering if Library 2.0 is for everybody. We tried a IM component to our YA program and it wasn't popular at all. YA's are into their social networks and the library isn't on their friends lists. Older folks who don't have computers are still demanding tomes that are no longer published because they are online now. 23 Things has motivated me to attempt to use blogs at our library to administer adult reading programs.

The future is definitely an electronic one with continued emphasis on electronic resources for accessing information in all formats. I am glad that I did this program as I had heard many of these terms bandied around but never quite understood exactly what they meant. The hardest part of this change is that it is continuous and neverending:technology now mandates that you become a lifelong learner.

Update on what I've done

Pretty much done 1-20 and number 22. My son is now blogging as a result of my exposure to Library 2.0. Last Sunday I briefed one of our extra help LA's all about 2.0. I plan on presenting it to the technophiles in my family too.

I just need to do number 21 on podcasts, do number 23, and maybe get some better closure on Flickr, Technorati, and Del.icio.us.

More on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/liberriandude/

Ok why doesn't the link embed?