The final countdown....

Some final thoughts on the 23 Things programme:


What have been the highs and lows of the 23 Things for me?
Highs
Talking about 23 Thing with others
Discovering some exciting new tools I can use to help manage information
Finding some interesting blogs about library trends
Getting to "play" with new technologies

Lows
What is this obsession with having "friends"?
Managing all of my multiple identities
Second Life menace with limited vocabulary
Having a photo of myself added to a social networking page by another 23 Things participant without my permission and very much against my wishes


Where to next with emerging technologies?
For me?
Contemplate, consolidate, reconsider, be objective
Retreat from networks I am unlikely to use again

For libraries?
Review, evaluate, validate, implement, review, evaluate...

RSS retrospective

I deliberately wanted to leave this blog entry until I had received RSS feeds for a substantial period of time and my reflections were considered:

In what cases do you think RSS will be useful?
For users of news type services, web pages and blogs if the services are stable and reliable, updates are made regularly and not incessantly, and the interest of the user is sustained over a period of time

For you?
A useful way to keep a watch on library trends - I tend to look at posts occasionally but not regularly

For our users?
Useful for updates - a good way of promoting new services, trials, or resources
A different way of providing alerting services

What makes it different to email?
Only what I want to read , when and if I choose to read it
No spam!