Thing 23: Give feedback about the 23 Things program.

How could you draw on what you have learned in 23 Things to help you in your work?

Not really certain. I do think that Google Docs might be useful perhaps for meeting agendas and minutes. It would mean not having to retype information already in the agenda --just copy and paste.
Google books and scholar might be useful for checking bibliographical information I suppose. They are fun for totally different reasons and Google map may save me from getting lost but LW's section on its accuracy leaves one wondering and it might be useful to be able to find the location of Napoleon's St Helena.

• How could the library use the technologies featured in 23 Things to improve its service?

Some of the tools amongst the information on Library 2.0 seems to be of use and some of the communication technologies might lead to efficiencies particularly if you can point to the correct URL etc but hey! we use the internet and phone!.

• How do you think the 23 Things program could be improved in the future?

I thought Jenny C's facebook guide and the session she did on searching Google (which was independent of 23 things) were really well structured and good ways of teaching. Maybe if some of the training sessions were based on a single or fixed set of topics and one worked through them in a structured step by step way one might gain more confidence and accomplish more.
In general the assistance from the training staff was very valuable. I recognise that this time and their independent assistance at other times came at the cost of their "sanity" and their other work and so offer my thanks.
However, some training sessions were very noisy and involved people giggling together rather than working and it was hard to get assistance. Sometimes the online notes needed a "how to tell you are finished" section. Waited 20 mins for help at one session wanting to know how to close off or end what I had been doing to be told I'd completed it. A note would have saved time.

• Do you think you'll keep blogging or keep using any of the other tools you learned about?

I definitely will use Google maps, docs, books and scholar. I will encourage my other half to use Flickr to store and organise a "million" photos. I don't know if I will keep blogging. Time constraints. I will keep the URL so that if I need to use any of the techniques I will be able to.


Thanks to the crew!!! Brownie Points rather than elephant stamps and stars.

By the way, my self-esteem has really taken a blow I completely finished this with not one comment from anyone. Now I know I'm boring!!!!