Bibliocommons' Lists

This week's "things" were less work than the previous two weeks as I already had some of the work done. In fact, there was more done than I remembered. When I went to create a list, I saw that one was already created - which I'm assuming was done during our bibliocommons training in 2011. There was nothing in my list, so I deleted it and started from scratch as I wanted a different name attached to it. That was a good move as it refreshed my memory as to how to create a list. All very easy and user friendly. I added four titles and made a comment on a book which no one else had commented on yet. Then I went to the full record of another title on my list to see if there were any comments, which there was: 12! It didn't surprise me. I ended up following two people whose comments reflected very much what I felt about the book. It'll be interesting to see what comes out of this. This lesson was beneficial to me because although I already knew about this feature in bibliocommons, I never used it and rarely read other people's comments. I will now do both as well as promote the social reading tool to patrons who seem potential candidates for this feature.

I listened to the instruction on Goodreads and although I haven't yet set up an account, it seems to offer more than our catalogue, but appears to be less easy to use until you'd become accustomed to it. So, if a person were to be an avid reader and didn't find the social features in our catalogue to be enough, I would recommend they try Goodreads.

Tweet Said the Bird

Tweet said the bird. Retweet said the second and third birds. Soon there was a song of tweets and retweets and the birds were happy. So many ways to communicate - if only social media was simpler (in the sense that there are so many things to learn) and as easy as singing like a bird. Well, maybe that isn't as easy as it sounds either. I can neither whistle or sing that well. This week's assignment was both easy and a bit challenging. I already have a library twitter account and a personal one. So I went and applied some of the things I was asked to do which I knew about but have never done. I tweeted about our upcoming Family Literacy Day event with a hashtag. I would have done the @ but I didn't know who to send it to. I ran out of characters and went back to the YouTube to see what to do. It talks about the URL shorteners but I don't understand what to do to make my message shorter. So I shortened it myself. Now I would like to try Hootsuite. Will do that soon. Interesting lesson!

First Blog of 23 Things

Hi! My name is Winifred Winners. I never thought of myself as a blogger even though I journal regularly. I've only even read just a few blog posts by other people. I guess it could be fun especially if you get some interesting feedback from people. I believe a blog should be a worthwhile use of time though - something you and your audience will benefit from. Not just a bunch of ramblings about boring stuff. No one would continue following you anyway. Well, since I don't have anything further to say for now, I'll bring this to a close. I hope my creative juices will start to flow for the next post otherwise I could be putting myself to sleep!