Finished! Or maybe just started

I have finished my 23 Things and had a great time working through the list of items. For just about everything there seemed to be some library-type use although not necessarily for the State Library.

I have already started to incorporate some of the 23 Things into my work as well as my personal life. I don’t know if it will make me any more organized or allow me to work any more efficiently, but it certainly has gotten me more involved with my co-workers and others in and out of the library world. That is a good thing in libraries!

Out of all the 23 Things that we did, the one that I found the least useful was Technorati – I will most likely cancel my subscription to that. Everything else I found some use for even if it was not really work-related.

I think there are couple of challenges for my library –
*To continue to use the 23 Things and not treat it as a project that has ended so we can return to the status quo; and

*To explore and use other social networking tools such as Second Life, Ning, or Facebook.

For me, the 23 Things was just the start! Next is to create one convenient, central location so that I can easily access Bloglines, LibraryThing, or whatever Web 2.0 tool I want.

23 Things and Hip Librarians

Early this week, I forwarded the link to my blog to family and friends who weren't librarians. One of them asked what this 23 Things was all about. I promised him that I would post a link to info about the challenge: http://our23things.infopeople.org/

Another friend really liked the article from the NY Times, "Hipper Crowd of Shushers." He asked me to post the link to the article, too.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/fashion/08librarian.html

Now that I am back from a short vacation -- I am back to working through my 23 Things. I feel like I have fallen behind, but I am determined to catch up! While I was on vacation, I added a new feature to my blog -- a random listing of items that are in my Library Things library.