Now this is another thing that I've already signed up for, but it's been a while and I can't remember my sign-on! Excellent, I must have ticked the remember me box as it logged me in!
The best example of this working well was watching the Tour de France last year, and following the cyclists like Lance Armstrong, who would tweet about what he was eating and gossip between the teams, how he was feeling, who said what etc. (I'm sure he must have had a PA to do this for him!)
Tried to find some 23 thingers, but not much luck, found Laura W, but not really sure she wants me saying hi on her bank holiday weekend!
Work wise, Ruth Newman and I checked out the tweets from the Staff Conference which mainly consisted of a superb running commentary by Laura...but it reminds me of when I used to send notes to my friends at school behind the teachers back hehe!
Monday, 5 April 2010
Dear 23 Things Panel,
As you can see I've been blitzing the 23 things, so my apologies for having to wade through a whole pile of posts at the last minute!
I've decided not to sign up to LinkedIn, but I had experience of it in my previous employment in the finance world, which I have quite happily left behind!
It's a very business like networking facility, but does have similarities to Facebook in that it can turn into a competition of how many people you know! And then the ones you do want to get in touch with aren't on it anyway!
Good for business bods, and those wanting to keep in touch with other Higher Education entities.
As you can see I've been blitzing the 23 things, so my apologies for having to wade through a whole pile of posts at the last minute!
I've decided not to sign up to LinkedIn, but I had experience of it in my previous employment in the finance world, which I have quite happily left behind!
It's a very business like networking facility, but does have similarities to Facebook in that it can turn into a competition of how many people you know! And then the ones you do want to get in touch with aren't on it anyway!
Good for business bods, and those wanting to keep in touch with other Higher Education entities.
How libraries are using Facebook to connect with their users
Ah, this looks like it needs a little research, and seeing as I've left my 23 things to the last minute, my research is limited.
This is where I thought delicious might come in useful to find all fellow 23 thinger's, thing 13's in one place, but I don't think it goes down to that level.
Having had a quick scan of some other blogs it does seem a fair question whether students would want to mix their studies with their social life on Fb. Fine if they want to, we should make the most of whatever means we can. Personally, I think Fb will be just another fad. (Apparently as soon as anyone over 30 started using it, it immediately became uncool!)
There will always be the next big thing, and whatever it is, libraries will get onto it and make the most of it while they can! Since working at the Bodleian Libraries and OU as a whole, I have been impressed by the use of new technology. The students force us to keep up with them, many of whom work for the libraries, so we have free inside knowledge into what is the latest way to communicate.
This is where I thought delicious might come in useful to find all fellow 23 thinger's, thing 13's in one place, but I don't think it goes down to that level.
Having had a quick scan of some other blogs it does seem a fair question whether students would want to mix their studies with their social life on Fb. Fine if they want to, we should make the most of whatever means we can. Personally, I think Fb will be just another fad. (Apparently as soon as anyone over 30 started using it, it immediately became uncool!)
There will always be the next big thing, and whatever it is, libraries will get onto it and make the most of it while they can! Since working at the Bodleian Libraries and OU as a whole, I have been impressed by the use of new technology. The students force us to keep up with them, many of whom work for the libraries, so we have free inside knowledge into what is the latest way to communicate.
YouTube
YouTube is great, as long as you don't live in Benson or anywhere with a slow internet!
It never ceases to amaze me at the amount of useful and entertaining stuff there is on YouTube. Most recently roller ski techniques for a new sport I'm learning!
The SSL YouTube clip with Craig and co was very useful when preparing for my interview there last year!
It never ceases to amaze me at the amount of useful and entertaining stuff there is on YouTube. Most recently roller ski techniques for a new sport I'm learning!
The SSL YouTube clip with Craig and co was very useful when preparing for my interview there last year!
Podcasts
Wow - I was amazed to see all the fascinating podcasts on the Oxford Unversity link - there just isn't enough time in the day to look at all the ones that interest me - it's like a constantly updating live magazine.
I tried to look at a podcast but my internet connection at home is just too slow. I have trouble sometimes with i-player and youtube so think I will have to wait until we get faster internet for this one.
Soon I will be able to know a little about a lot.
I tried to look at a podcast but my internet connection at home is just too slow. I have trouble sometimes with i-player and youtube so think I will have to wait until we get faster internet for this one.
Soon I will be able to know a little about a lot.
Social Bookmarking & Tagging
OK, so I read the instructions, and jumped straight to what I thought was the easy bit about networks, but it asked for a delicious user name...how do I know this, I don't even know what my own user name is?! Oh lordy:-)
I perservered and managed to add Cathy and acarritt to my network, but do they know?! Again I find I need a gazzillion screens open to find the user name and go back to put it in my networks...there must be an easier way?!
For me, delicious is just a bit too clever for it's own good, it's doesn't seem to be very methodical, and I feel like I'm flying on a magic carpet to different screens, and before long I've no idea where I am or how to get back to where I was!!
I've seen loads of other bookmarking icons and will have to explore these to see if they're any better, or will delicious be the google of bookmarking?
Found the folksonomies info interesting, set up RSS feeds from delicious, will these show up on my i-google page - help why can't everything be done in one place?!!
I think I need my own website to keep it all together! I'm sure everyone will have their own website in the not too distant future, just like they have a mobile phone. In fact mobiles will become obsolete for making calls, because we'll have all our contacts on our website and contact each other through a skype chip in our ear.
I digress, 23 things on on...
I perservered and managed to add Cathy and acarritt to my network, but do they know?! Again I find I need a gazzillion screens open to find the user name and go back to put it in my networks...there must be an easier way?!
For me, delicious is just a bit too clever for it's own good, it's doesn't seem to be very methodical, and I feel like I'm flying on a magic carpet to different screens, and before long I've no idea where I am or how to get back to where I was!!
I've seen loads of other bookmarking icons and will have to explore these to see if they're any better, or will delicious be the google of bookmarking?
Found the folksonomies info interesting, set up RSS feeds from delicious, will these show up on my i-google page - help why can't everything be done in one place?!!
I think I need my own website to keep it all together! I'm sure everyone will have their own website in the not too distant future, just like they have a mobile phone. In fact mobiles will become obsolete for making calls, because we'll have all our contacts on our website and contact each other through a skype chip in our ear.
I digress, 23 things on on...
Social Bookmarking & Tagging
Having set up my delicious account way back and found word clouds, I was really excited to get going on delicious as my favourites were and still are getting out of control!
However...upon revisiting in detail to complete thing 9, it wasn't as easy and straight forward as I thought.
First of all I spent ages trying to get my bookmarklet button to sit in my links toolbar. As I already have a few in there already, there wasn't room, but eventually found a way to create a new line of links, phew, but for some reason I've still not managed to get the lovely little tag icon, so instead I've just dragged my save to delicious page in my links and it seems to work fine. I've also got a delicious logo with save a new bookmark, although this route you have to cut and paste the url.
So, with that all set up, the first thing I saved was the 23thingsblogspot and my own blog, as well as my colleagues, Cathy and Sibel. I've also saved a few Oxford related ones, and tried to send to acarritt. Went to check and it's on the ox23 'everyone' list which is great, but then tried to share my blog on delicious in the same place but can't work out how to share, or to get on this list again. To make up for this an added bonus was that Cathy's list popped up, no idea how?! Also not exactly sure how I find out friends name on it if they are using a different name...too many questions again!!
Looking forward to using delicious more and exploring all the things it can do - and getting really organised on it. Or is it just another way to store your favs? Like photos - I've got some on a memory stick, some in my email account, some in my laptop, they're all over the place!
The best thing about this is that I've had to do it, and although I'm not an expert, I can use it, and will get better. Something I wouldn't have done without 23 things!
However...upon revisiting in detail to complete thing 9, it wasn't as easy and straight forward as I thought.
First of all I spent ages trying to get my bookmarklet button to sit in my links toolbar. As I already have a few in there already, there wasn't room, but eventually found a way to create a new line of links, phew, but for some reason I've still not managed to get the lovely little tag icon, so instead I've just dragged my save to delicious page in my links and it seems to work fine. I've also got a delicious logo with save a new bookmark, although this route you have to cut and paste the url.
So, with that all set up, the first thing I saved was the 23thingsblogspot and my own blog, as well as my colleagues, Cathy and Sibel. I've also saved a few Oxford related ones, and tried to send to acarritt. Went to check and it's on the ox23 'everyone' list which is great, but then tried to share my blog on delicious in the same place but can't work out how to share, or to get on this list again. To make up for this an added bonus was that Cathy's list popped up, no idea how?! Also not exactly sure how I find out friends name on it if they are using a different name...too many questions again!!
Looking forward to using delicious more and exploring all the things it can do - and getting really organised on it. Or is it just another way to store your favs? Like photos - I've got some on a memory stick, some in my email account, some in my laptop, they're all over the place!
The best thing about this is that I've had to do it, and although I'm not an expert, I can use it, and will get better. Something I wouldn't have done without 23 things!
Sunday, 4 April 2010
More Feeds
I'm getting lost, serves me right for leaving 23 things to the last minute. I couldn't find my Google Reader page, so had to go back to 23 things and thing 5 to click on the link so that I could then save it in my favourites.
It seems you need open loads of duplicate pages so that you can link through to other pages, otherwise you can't go back to find things. I wonder if this is how everyone else does it?
I then realised I needed yet more pages open so that I could go back to find a blog address to cut and paste to add another blog. This was quite a good experiment, in that when clicking follow on someone's blog it automatically sets up in google reader, but it seems if you want to follow without being a follower, then you have to start at google reader.
I'm also confused because I found a rowing website to add to my google reader, and cut and pasted the address in, but it hasn't added to my google reader list...I'm just finding it all a bit frustrating...
I think I'll move on, and come back to explore this later.
It seems you need open loads of duplicate pages so that you can link through to other pages, otherwise you can't go back to find things. I wonder if this is how everyone else does it?
I then realised I needed yet more pages open so that I could go back to find a blog address to cut and paste to add another blog. This was quite a good experiment, in that when clicking follow on someone's blog it automatically sets up in google reader, but it seems if you want to follow without being a follower, then you have to start at google reader.
I'm also confused because I found a rowing website to add to my google reader, and cut and pasted the address in, but it hasn't added to my google reader list...I'm just finding it all a bit frustrating...
I think I'll move on, and come back to explore this later.
Google Reader and RSS Feeds
Well...even upon revisiting, this is all a bit of a mystery to me. I think this is where I came to a bit of block on my 23 things. I'm just not really getting it. I thought I'd tried to set up my i-google homepage / start page so that whenever I turned on my computer I would see updates or the latest RSS feeds from blogs I was following, but I've not quite managed it. So it seems quicker just to go to the 23 things page and see it all there.
At least my Google Reader is set up with 23 things and the blogs I'm following, so I guess I've achieved what I'm supposed to do. There just seems so many different pages and places to check now, although I can see the benefits of keeping track of what you want to follow, but what if this is all the bloggers on 23 things, isn't it just as quick to browse the 23 things blog itself?? More questions I know!
At least my Google Reader is set up with 23 things and the blogs I'm following, so I guess I've achieved what I'm supposed to do. There just seems so many different pages and places to check now, although I can see the benefits of keeping track of what you want to follow, but what if this is all the bloggers on 23 things, isn't it just as quick to browse the 23 things blog itself?? More questions I know!
Thoughts about blogs
The more I'm finding my way around web2.0 the more there is to explore. I've just been tidying up my blog so far and when updating my profile with a photo, found a button to manage blogs I follow, which took me to another screen and then another screen about google friends - it's a bit like entering a maze and not wanting to go to far so you can track back to where you started!
And the more I find out the more questions I have! For instance, it seems weird editing posts that have already been published, does anyone know if a post has been updated? Although I can understand the need to amend or remove errors or mistakes, as well as being a great idea for the perfectionist like myself.
I might come back to this post to add my thoughts along the way...or should I create a new post with the same title?? Maybe I should not have such an enquiring mind!
And the more I find out the more questions I have! For instance, it seems weird editing posts that have already been published, does anyone know if a post has been updated? Although I can understand the need to amend or remove errors or mistakes, as well as being a great idea for the perfectionist like myself.
I might come back to this post to add my thoughts along the way...or should I create a new post with the same title?? Maybe I should not have such an enquiring mind!
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