Monday, May 19, 2008

Thing 1

I had used Blogger before, but I spent some time looking around, changing settings, fonts, etc. I had never done an avatar before, and spent too much time playing around with that. After trying out several fashion options, it seemed a shame to just use the head of my avatar, so I opted for the full outfit (so fancy, basic jeans and t-shirt.) At least I found the glasses!

It's funny to have a Yahoo account on top of a Google account (like I needed another account.) I had to activate my Google account recently for a work-related project (did I remember setting up a Google account? No, but there it was.) The PTA at my daughter's school uses Yahoo Groups; now I could check that out (now that the school year's almost over.)

Don't get me wrong. I'm not a technophobe. I'm a mom. I get at most ten minutes of online time at home per day (can you say, computer spouse?) I'm online constantly at work, but doing work-related stuff, so having this chance to explore new technologies will be fun.

Thank you to the 23 Things on a Stick folks for running this over the summer. Many of us in academe wanted to participate, but just didn't have time earlier in the year.

Initial musings

I'm signing up for 23 Things on a Stick, Minnesota's answer to the Library 2.0 program developed by Helene Blowers. Thing 1 includes creating a blog. Now this I've done before, for my place of work, but I haven't done a personal blog before. So I thought, my name's somewhat unusual. How many librarians named Marianne are there likely to be? It turns out there are at least two: one address had been deleted from Blogger and is no longer available; the other is MariannetheLibrarian from Texas. Who knew?

I'm a reference librarian at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. My subject specialties include business and economics. I'm also a science fiction fan, which I think helps in things 2.0.