Blue 2.0 assignment continues

So, now I'm to the part of the assignment where we're supposed to record our experience with the instant messaging portion of the program. For me -- it was not pretty. I found the AIM interface to be very user UN-friendly, and all of the ads & flashing gee-gaws distracting. Eventually, I did manage to create an account in AIM & was able to chat with a very patient and helpful co-worker (thanks Susan!). I've used MSN messenger in the past and didn't have nearly as many problems with it as I've experienced with AIM (so far).

Yes, I could see using this technology at work, particularly for short ref questions. I personally would not want to use it for friends & family - keeping up with their email is challenging enough, I would be concerned that IMing would become very time consuming, which would cut down on the time I have to take photos of my cats ...

back to the Blue 2.0 assignment

Oops - I forgot to do activity 3 "Blog It!" in our Blue 2.0 assignment -- this is where we're supposed to talk about our experience in creating our blog. I thought creating it was pretty easy, but coming up with a name and/or something to blog about was incredibly aggravating. Obviously, I don't meet the criteria of a person well suited to have a blog ;-) Still not sure what I'll be blogging about over the next few weeks, so you'll probably see more cat photos... As far as using a blog in my day-to-day work, I'm not seeing it yet. The majority of patrons in our library need clinical evidence based resources rather than personal opinions.

Pickles

As I was discussing my newly created blog at home last night, Pickles became concerned that she was not featured. So, here she is on the left, and on the right along side Rosemarie.

I'm not sure what my blog is going to be about - it wasn't intended to be about cats, but I can't seem to resist posting photos of them!

First Post

Obviously my first post -- this blog was created for the UK Libraries Blue 2.0 experience. It should be fun...