Things 16-17

I would have killed for the assignment calculator in college. I'm going to try and find a way to make this program work in my professional life.

ELM is a wonderful benefit to all libraries in MN. There must be a better way of promoting this to our patrons.

Thing 15 - Games

Games absolutely belong in the library! I have enjoyed watching libraries move in this direction.

Personally, however, I am not into online gaming and would prefer to get out of my chair and move around.

Things 13 and 14

I always love the thought of increasing productivity!! Backpack looks interesting. I will definitely take more time to dig deeper into that in the near future.

The director brought Library Thing to my attention a while ago. Very cool! I especially love reading a review of someone who didn't like a book.

Things 11 and 12

Love media sites, love tagging...just wish i had more time.

Thing 10 - Wikis

Wikis? I'm not sure about wikis. They are a decent way to communicate while keeping all conversations central, but it seems a little archaic. I like the edit feature, but it seems to cause problems. One of the wikis I visited noted that vandalism has caused them to create new procedures around editing. Four years ago I started promoting library programs on a local home school organization's wiki. It was often outdated. I'm not sure anyone looked at it.

Thing 9 - Collaboration

Interesting concept! I love the idea of using this to share docs and allow others to make edits.

Unfortunately, I am not just "word processing". The program I use most (Quark) is not supported by Zoho Writer - I didn't have time to try Google docs. Word processing programs don’t have the design elements that I need. I can definitely see the value, though!

Thing 8

Ecuador Floating Pics