ThinkFree

Interesting!
I think things like this would be a good idea to be using here at Brasenose between my boss and I. We have a few documents that we both use but have been emailing our parts of them to each other, whereas an online workspace would definitely be the way forward!
Winterspring mentions Huddle in her blog, commenting that it is better for larger files, such as excel spreadsheet. and is good for sharing so think I may try that.

Googling Doccies

Ooh that was fun! I just shared a rather random couple of written lines with the organizers of this project with the message - Billy no-mates has no one to share this with! Hmm perhaps I should've written something vaguely interesting! Oops...Hope they don't mind.
This Thing has quite got my attention, I have never used online office applications before. It seems very simple to use and looks to be a very handy tool.

Wikis and Wikipedia

The Oxford web 2.0 wiki is really useful, though I couldn't find anything to edit but I will be lsiting my library facebook page on there as soon as it's public! :)

As for Wikipedia, I love it for it's endless information and often refer to it for finding out *stuff*

Twittering away...

...Well not quite yet!
I have made a start, attempted at making a conversation and am following a couple of things. It's all very exciting but somewhat confusing right now! :/
Much exploration is needed here thats for sure and then I will be confidently tweet tweeting away! Hurrah! :)

LinkedIn

Hmm...OK...So I signed up and created a profile but thats as far as I've got as I really don't know what or how I would use it. :/
It's just left me all a bit bewildered really!

Facebook

Oh dear I feel like I am getting behind with it all, so much to do and so little time! 0_o
Anyway...
I have been using  Facebook for quite a while now. I like it in the fact I can keep up to date with all my chums as they live all the over place and see some of them so rarely.
I am also in the process of setting up a library facebook page in which I'll be able to keep students, especially the graduates, up to date with library issues, announcements, also a link to LibrayThing to show new books and where students can leave comments and feedback etc etc. I am (rather sadly) quite excited about this as it's a good, simple way to to keep everyone informed! :D

PodTube

I already had an YouTube account and quite often find myself watching daft cartoons or music vidoes on it. So first of all I subscribed to one my favourites for cheering me up -  Simon's Cat - It is just *so* my fella's cat! :D
Then for this task I checked out some library induction videos and oh my what a lot there are! :/
I have managed to watch some and added a couple to my favourites so I could easily find them to show my boss as we are desperately trying to come up with new ideas as for a new video for next time. Last years was funny and quirky in a* homemade* kind of way.

I use iPlayer all the time for listening or watching a variety of programmes from the radio and TV. But Podcasts...Hmm...I hadn't really explored them before, though when I looked at podcastalley and podcast I think my head exploded! Seriously EEP! How many??? Where to start??? What to start with??? Oh my goodness! To ease my confusion I went and had a looksie at Oxford University and listened to a couple. Then, feeling brave, went back to podcast.com and subscribed to some sci-fi! RAH! :D

Simply Delicious!

Why have I never used delicious before??!! The ability to find and bookmark from any computer is what's most appealing to me as I am forever bookmarking things, saving stuff, emailing myself links as want to save it on another computer. Now it will be so deliciously easy! :)


I am sproutymouse on Delicious

I can see myself using this a lot and eventually with the aid of tagging putting stuff into bundles and having work plus personal etc etc...

Picniking with Pink Snow!

This is what happens when I play with Picnik...

 All the snow turns PINK!! RAH!

Hmmm...

Haven't got very far this week!
I did create a Flickr account and uploaded a couple of pictures but I think I will have to come back to Things 7 & 8 when I have more pictures as I have a load on my phone but no cable to get them onto my computer! :(

Also I couldn't seem to create a Flickr photostream as a gadget on my blog! :/

I think I'm just being a retard this week!

Oh but what I have managed to do this week is to change my blog layout to this pretty one - Ta da! Thanks to Winterspring Calling for links on where to find nicer themes. :)

EDIT: Also how the hell did I manage to get 2 of each post onto my blog!?!

Blog Blogging Away

So I have spent much of this week trawling through blogs, so far I have set up an RSS feed for New Scientist, a couple of feeds from blogs from this project and a couple of randoms that caught my eye.

One of them is nicely titled 'When I Grow Up I Want To be A Librarian' This is making me want to change my title too 'I really Wanted To Be A Mermaid' as that was the very first thing I wanted to be, then a Librarian. It is also quite interesting and librarianly. :)

Another blog got my attention after reading this about the blogger:
"By day, I'm a mild-mannered librarian in a pokey one horse town, but by night I customise/butcher/torture vintage guitars while knocking back too much home brew. Then blog about comics, movies, music, TV, and even occasionally books and librarianship."
This appealed to my comicbook nerdiness! Oh yes indeedy! :)

I like the idea of having a blog as a Librarian but seeing as I haven't updated my Livejournal since before Christmas, who knows! I find Facebook so much easier as it's all one-liner-status-updates which is usually about as much as I have to say for myself!

Google ID

I am forever changing themes and gadgets on my iGoogle homepage, this is how it looks at the moment..
Theme is Shojo Beat, the images change throughout the day and are all Manga in style, this one is my favourite. :)

The gadgets I have right now are:
- Weather - for both Oxford and London.
- Train Journey Planner.
- Google Map.
- BBC Radio & News.
- Tranlate.

Beginnings

This is my blog for the 23 Things programme. I already have a Livejournal account which is solely for personal use, like a diary and I also use Facebook. I have never used Blogger before so this should be fun!