Facebook (task 22)

I explored MySpace a couple years ago when it first became big. Last year I joined Facebook. My primary motivation for joining facebook was to track down the whereabouts of I few friends I had lost touch with in the last 5 years. I must say, it was GREAT for this. I found 4 out of  5 good friends on there and found out 2 had now finished their studies and were working as doctors, a third had got married to her long-time boyfriend and was living in the UK and the 4th had befriended my sister on Facebook. I also linked up with my US "big brothers" from when I was a teenager.

I don't use Facebook too much, but jump on occasionally to see if any of my friends have been doing anything interesting - like getting engaged. I mainly use it to keep track of friends I don't physically see much. My group of friends is quite small and I like it that way. Security on Facebook is a big issue and I'm careful not to put too much on there and to change the Facebook security settings so only my friends can see what I put up (although it's arguable how secure Facebook's security settings are - best not to just rely on them).

I guess I don't particularly see my day-to-day happenings as very interesting and therefore I'm not sure why anyone else would find them interesting - so why put them on Facebook. I also think people need to be aware that once they put something on Facebook it's out there - even if they later delete it, it's still out there.

Twitter at ALIA Access (task 21)

I had my first leap into the world of twitter at the ALIA Access conference last week. Each speaker had it's own twitter stream, so I pulled out my iPod touch, contacted to the free ALIA Access wireless at the convention centre and downloaded the twitter app. Most were very quite, but the ALIA camp stream was tweeting wildly - a lot of the newer librarians in this one I think. A lot of the tweets contained little substance and many simply repeated statements made by the speakers. There was one round of interesting comment that went on regarding LIS education. However, after looking over someone's shoulder during a conference session to see their laptop open with four twitter streams running and seeing this individual regularly tweeting themselves - I do wonder how they were able to pay much attention - if any - to the speaker presenting up the front? Indeed the few times I picked up my iPod to see who and what was tweeting I know I missed what was being said in front of me.

Lifelong Learning....thoughts (task 2)

First thing that springs to mind after watching the lifelong learning video is - why can't the speaker say learn-ing instead of learnin' - quite irritating.

Anyway, easiest for me is probably #1 - I tend to consider the end result quite easily. Hardest - this is a bit harder to pick, ironically - maybe #7, I don't tend to find the time to teach or mentor others about things I've find, when I do have the time and opportunity, great! But it doesn't happen too often.

It's also annoying me to have to go back into my published posts to change the date and time - can you set a time zone on this thing???

Hello.......it's me! (task 3)

Hello Hello

For those of you I haven't met, I'm Wendy Furlan, the Pharmacy librarian across the river at PACE. It's far too mentally draining at this time of the afternoon to come up with an interesting persona, so you are just stuck with the original.

I've finally got around to starting 23 things.....at a time when I don't have 23 other things I need to be doing (maybe only 15 at the moment). And hope to push through. Not sure if I'll make it by the cutoff though, working half time with 2 weeks leave thrown in, but we'll see what happens.