Thing 23

I've used more resources and explored more websites in the past few weeks than I have in the past five years and it's been a joy. I feel enriched not only professionally but personally. I'm now able to do things that I wasn't even aware of before. I thought tag was a kid's game,flickr... an eye movement, RSS feed...say what? I was of course aware of blogs and wikis but hadn't a clue as to how to create them. I also have developed a lot more self-confidence because I was able to complete tasks that were often intimidating at first glance. In doing the various exercises I also became acquainted with a number of other resources that I want to explore. The most important single thing that I've learned is that the more I learn the more there is out there to learn. I also have to mention how inspired I was by reading the blogs of my co-workers and thank them for the clever ideas that I incorporated into my blog. I'll take responsibility for the corny ones but it was always the process that concerned me most. I'm now going to continue working on the rest of the tasks and perfecting the skills that I've acquired. I've noticed that I'm spontaneously using many tools now when searching the net... technorati1, del.icio.us, furl, RSS feeds and flickr, to name a few. Adding buttons to my web page for the various sites makes it so simple to utilize the resources. I have no doubt that this experience will increase my ability to help our library patrons use technology. I'm looking forward to participating in Library 2.1.