Pot Luck #56: TXT U L8R - Texting

I have sent several text messages, and I have been told that I am way too wordy! It's still new to me. Yes, I did use texting to contact my coworkers during Ike last year. The ability to inform several people at once makes it ideal in certain circumstances. I would not call myself a regular texter because I do not have a have a monthly plan, though I do use it for nonemergencies. I have not learned the lingo yet, but the resource in this module is very helpful for getting started. I think doing anything in addition to driving is dangerous, but I think it is going to take changes in traffic laws to get us to stop. We Texans are a stubborn breed of texters!

Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

The oldest file that I found on the P-Drive was one that I had created back when I worked at FM! It was unfinished, and I still hope to go back and complete the thing, but I can only guess when I would have remembered it if it hadn’t been for this exercise!

I think storing files on CDs over extended periods of time will only be useful to me if I create some sort of index (maybe just a Word file) to accompany them. Otherwise it will be too time-consuming to search back through each CD individually.

I do appear to have maintained a surprising level of organization, but I think that a Spring Cleaning each and every spring is probably in order!

Spring Cleaning #28: Don’t Clutter Up Expensive Cyberspace

GTD makes sense and I think it will help me, because I know that I can often get stuck in a sort of "paralysis of analysis" and never really get moving.

I also signed up for Bla-Bla List which seems simple enough to be useful!

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

My email, on the whole, is a lot less cluttered than say my desk!

I am going to regularly delete my SENT MAIL, because that folder is easy to overlook.

And I'd say that once a year I need to evaluate all of my files.

Week 10: #23 Is this really the end? Or just the beginning...

Web-Apps was very informative and useful to me. But the Library Elf is still my favorite discovery-- who knew that entropy had such a foe!

This program has also helped me see that there's always more to learn and to relearn and to try to remember to tell others about. I don't know about future web 2.0 applications--but after realizing that I only knew about 30% of everything in this training--there must be a lot more I'm missing!

I may have mentioned this in an earlier posting-- but podcasts (being free to publish) could be used in a number of ways in adult or children's programming.

Thank you guys for putting all this together...it really was a good mix of fun activities and useful information.

Week 9: #22 Downloadable Media

I downloaded the audio book "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens-- It's read by Jim Dale! I also checked out Night of the Living Dead-- another classic holiday story!

I really like the idea behind LibriVox-- I hope they have quality readers.

Wowio has some interesting stuff as well, but there's so much already on HCPL's site, that it will take time to just browse through that-- like I just discovered there are a number of Newbery winners in audio format that we no longer have on cd or tape.

Week 9: #21 Podcasts, Smodcasts!

I found a feed for "Red Giant Radio" off of podcastalley.com which claims to have "the latest news in astronomy and theoretical physics, complete with quirky musical interludes". What more could you want! I went ahead and subscribed to it.

I also found "LibVibe" featuring "headline news from the library world".

The keyword and subject searches make the process of finding interesting podcasts very easy no matter how unique the interest.