23 Things Week 2: Social Networking

I'm in Facebook and LinkedIn and Ning.

Haven't really explored the social aspects of Ning very much, I was asked to join a test class. It looks very good for that kind of a setting.

I look at Facebook a couple times a week, and haven't really been too impressed. I guess it's easy to communicate to all my friends, but I could just send them all an email. I've only been on since November, 2009 I think.

I've found it very annoying to have former acquaintances request friendship. I joined because a friend moved away and he was a big Facebook user. When I came back to the site a couple days later I had 14 friend requests! And I told NO ONE! And these were all people from a different group than the friend that moved. How did they find me so fast? That was kinda scary.

My library has a Facebook page.

LinkedIn could be good for professional networking.

Week One: Blogging

So, my first adventure for 23 Things is creating this blog and making a post.

I'm Robert Lindsey, Instruction and Reference Librarian at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS.

I'm supposed to do this:

In the following weeks, you will be writing about the other 22 things. Along with the assignments that your mentors will give you, consider the following blogging prompts:

* What are your feelings (good and bad) concerning the tool of the week?

Feelings? I'm a guy, I'll tell you what I think, but I'm not in touch with my feelings enough to know how to answer this.

* Have you had any breakthroughs? Any failures? What have you learned from them?

I've got a few blogs, so this isn't new. I use Blogger and WordPress. However, there are several new things that I am looking forward to learning.

* Create links to resources, other people’s blogs, or other useful sites on the web in order to connect your posts to the wider world (even if you’re only linking back to the 23 Things blog!).

OK.

* Most importantly, visit a few other participants’ blogs and leave comments on their posts so you can start conversations.

Will do.