Thing 10 - Meebo & Skype

I tired MEEBO very quickly; with two other IM systems in place already, I guess I'm primarily feeling frustration that we can't have one system that can talk to other systems. However, MEEBO has some nice emoticons, and it looks like we could do group chat - and that leads me to Skype...

Skype has a chat feature too; group chat would be possible, and you can insert videos and send documents using it. So - pretty nice. The phone worked fine too, and would make conference calls easier.

iGoogle - Thing 9

Ok - I LOVE iGoogle. I don't know what to say except that it's so easy - and convenient to have everything in one place.

Wikis

I have finally updated not one, but two wikis. I tried the Public Services first, but didn't have anything of substance to say. So then I went to the Ask a UC Librarian wiki, maintained by Ken Furuta. I managed (after much frustration) to post our now public Ask calendar (and learned more about tiny urls) and I created a new page and put up the minutes to the Common Interest Group's minutes. Very clunky (I thought) for that kind of thing, but it does work.
http://kenfuruta.info/wiki/index.php?InterestGroup

Back to Facebook

Now that ALA is around the corner, and I'm corresponding again with East Coast pals and colleagues, Facebook is starting to be much more interesting for me. It's definitely a social tool, and I can't see (for me) using it with students, but to keep up with my friends and make plans - it's great. And now I know what an FB event is - and I've even set one up. Thanks Karen!

More on Assignment (Thing) 7 - del.icio.us

Well, I followed the instructions about tagging without the delicious buttons (thanks Melanie!). I managed to tag Knitty.com, a great knitting web site. I think delicious is a great tool for bringing like things together with language by the users, not an outside community (eg class names). Worth exploring, altho having seen Dana's and Brian's delicious accounts - they are not particularly attractive...

Assignment (Thing) 7: Social Bookmarking & Folksonomies

I was ready to start del.cio.us, but (frustratingly) blocked from downloading the buttons...
so until IT can have the buttons installed, this Thing will have to wait...

Assignment (Thing) 4 - back to tagging

I've tried searching for my blog, 24 hours after pinging, and am not having good luck (and "jawlensky" is not a common word, overall)...a lot of the blog directories are visually confusing to me; it's not always easy to figure out how to search.