23 things-eval

23 things is great. I really wish I could have spent time learning this on the order of an hour per day rather than the disjointed time slots I have had. The teaching/explanations are excellent. Please never delete them.

Thanks for all your hard work in trying to get us up to speed.

Jean

Thing 22-RSS feeds

I set up an RSS feed to my g-mail account -Life-hacker-Top. A glance here will let me know how others have solved some everyday problems and what topics are of current interest to other Lifehacker subscribers.

Thing 13-Library Thing

I listed one book earlier in the year. I posted another entry today. This could be used to get great ideas for readings from people with similar tastes. Referance Librarians or read-a-holics in general could really benefit from it.

thing 18-survey monkey

Survey Monkey can be very useful to "take the temperature" of opinions on a certain topic. However, surveys where respondents just write brief lines often fail to elicit the additional feelings behind these short answers. If you need personnel to get behind a project, you'll need more than a "survey" of their opinions to get everyone actively working toward your goal.

I recently conducted a casual verbal "survey" concerning a Circ. proceedure with the suggestion that some changes be made to benefit other departments. The secondary and tertiary comments made possible by the personal contact and non-threatening presentation of the idea revealed more than the original questions about the likelyhood of getting the changes implemented on a consistent basis.

thing 9-collaboration tools

I fiddled around with Zoho and Google Docs. I added an entry on the Logic of Failure by Dietrich Dorner. That was in February! Since then so many things personal things have happened to distract me from this great endeaver at work, I should do all the 9 things again. I hope you never take these exercises off lint so we can always "start over" or review items when we actually have a use for them. The new Circ Blog for discussions within our own department should prove useful as a collaboration tool too. 7/12/09

thing 10-wiki

I set up a Wiki and had a lot of fun blabbing about corn cobs and their uses. Then I went to lunch. When I came back everything had disappeared because it "timed out". Apparently I had forgotten to save it.