Thing 24

My town is not big enough that people would be blogging or twittering very often about our library, so I went with the town searches in Twitter (finally signing up for Twitter so I will do Thing #13 later), and Google Alert. The Google Alerts came up with some local news and I was able to get a few twits to my e-mail, mostly job postings and a lady who did not seem very excited to be coming here for business. "Whoop." Oh, well.

As I was looking through Thing #24 instructions, I looked again at the Bloglines Citation Search. So I did a citation search of our library's web address and did a subscription of the search so I can see if anyone ever links to our website. There were 2 results (both linked to Delicious Thing #14) already so maybe more in the future.

Since most of the searches came up were news and the Bloglines Citations were old and the twit was unenthusiastic, there was nothing to respond to. What a let down to try to get this working.

Thing 7

No sooner did I have my Google Reader (personal playtime) up that I went running to my favorite Harry Potter websites to get the RSS onto it. Someone mentioned the Library Journal RSS feeds recently so while I was posting Thing 6 on one internet tab I was adding feeds from another to Bloglines on a 3rd tab. Some days I can multitask. I did look at the 4 search tools under the Thing 7. I put a couple of RSS's on Bloglines and another one on Google, but I thought syndic8.com was hard to maneuver through.

Star Wars

OK, I am trying new Things, even some things not on the list. This came in the Star Wars newsletter I signed up for to keep on top for my Fiction Selection part of my duties. I will give it to the Library if I win. It took 3 or 4 tries to get the right combination for it to post to the Blog.

sw encyclopedia widget - large

Thing 6

For the RSS, I started with Bloglines, and did the suggested feeds manually, except for some of my fellow bloggers, since I am already following some on Blogger. I then set up a Google Reader also, to see if I liked it better. Then I did some exporting and importing so that Bloglines is my "business" RSS and Google is my "personal playtime" RSS. I like somethings about Bloglines and other things about Google Reader. I have over 1000 unread in Google Reader at the moment, oops.

Thing 5

Someone mentioned the re-learning curve in a post and I can really relate right now. I wrote Thing 4 on 11-4 and had Thing 5 done but not posted or blogged. I went ahead and did Google Talk because Blogger is on my Google page and had to twist my bookworm604 to book604worm to log on. I am trying to keep my identity mostly the same no matter which application I am working with.

I finally connected with Allana but had to go because of a phone call. She is following my blog. Cool. I just noticed today that Susan and Michael left comments. I am still glowing, ha ha.

Thing 4

Sometimes I blog and then post on the Thing which-ever-number site and sometimes I do it the other way around, and in the meanwhile I have done Thing 5 and started Thing 6.

Anyway, I did get Susan e-mailed to let her know I wanted to be enrolled for the credits and the chance to win the MP3. I have a 1GB Creative Zen Stone and have been very enthusiastic about letting patrons know about the Overdrive Digital Audio site.