Thing 30 More ways to use RSS and Delicious

Well since I didn't do the original "23" I had to go back to thing 11 to see what RSS feeds are all about and how to "get connected". I did go check out Delicious and created an account and added my "library tools" bookmarks to my account. I think it is pretty cool and will have to check it out more in depth when I have more time.

Thing 28--Customized Home Pages

Well this one was a much easier "thing" to do. I have had a my yahoo homepage for several years so I was familiar with how to customize a home page. I had also started customizing an igoogle page when I started my blog.
As I was reading through the blog instructions I decided to check out the different tools for creating a start page such as Netvibes and Pageflakes. Didn't see that they were a whole lot different in look than iGoogle and My Yahoo but I might play around with NetVibes and Pageflakes just to try something different. I then checked out the School Library Journal article. I clicked on the link to the LibraryThing page and decided to set up an account and then customize my book list. It was great fun setting up my library and I would recommend anyone trying it out. What I did was pick a select list of my favorite series authors and find their latest books as well as the earlier ones in the series and list them so I could create a "wishlist" for future reading and then request the future books from my library.
Well I created my own Blidget and stuck it onto my igoogle home page. It was very easy to do and very quick. I created a blidget of my blog page--just another way to keep things organized in one spot.

Thing 26-Join the Ning

Well I joined the 23 things on a stick ning and it was actually very easy to do. I tried joining the Google group but my membership has been pending for the last few days so I am not sure about that one. I gound a person on there that I went to school with that is a librarian at a college and we are now "friends" thru the site. Well got to open the library now so I will post later.

Thing 25-Bloggers' Toolkit

Well I actually have some spare time so I am back messing with my blog. I have now added a digital clock and decided to put it above my title thereby moving down the title so it can be seen better because of the advertising logo for Webfetti. I have also read the "tips for your blog" and decided to give some more "meat" to my "about me" section. I have visited google gadgets to check out some of my options and decided to add a list of my favorite authors and a local weather map. I have also been to odiogo and made my blog talk. I am having fun checking out all the cool gadgets out there but it is very time consuming. I have also been adding many of the gadgets to my google reader page as well signed up for a flickr account and uploaded pics. One of my favorite gadgets that I imported is called Birthday reminder--check it out.

Thing 27--Twitter

Well I kind of jumped ahead and decided to check out what Twitter is. I actually happened upon it by accident. I was reading our new staff connections newsletter about a workshop we have coming up "Reference in the Electronic Age Workshop". I wanted to check out the speaker's blog so I clicked on the link. On her blog she had a article about Twitter and I clicked on the link Other Places You Can Find Me and Twitter was one of the places so I clicked on it to see what it was all about. I decided I wanted to read more of what she had to say so I signed up for my own Twitter account so I could follow hers. When I loaded my Yahoo address book I discovered a friend of mine also had a Twitter account and I could follow her also. I also added Twitter as a RSS feed so now I think I did another "thing". I am not sure how much I would use twitter but it was kind of fun to set up and check out. I tried to set up my mobile phone by following the directions but no matter how many times I tried my registration would not go through. I think it is one of the setting on my wireless phone account that won't let me connect to twitter. Well I must have been doing something incorrectly when I tried this earlier because I just managed to register my phone using a different method. I just sent a message from my cell phone and it posted on my twitter page--way cool!!!! My url is http://twitter.com/katdew

More playing

Well I am still playing with my blog's look. I have now added a slideshow of sunsets. In looking for an avatar (which I am not having much luck with) I came upon "Webfetti" and added a sunrise background. I am going to give it a try for a few days and see if I want to keep it or not.

Thing 24

Well since this is my first time, it is kind of hard to "refresh my blog".
I did look through the templates and gave myself a harbor look because right now I am in Marquette MI and looking out my son's back door I look at the harbor on Lake Superior and it is a beautiful sight. I have also registered my blog on NLLN and taken the time to look through everyone's blogs to get some ideas and see if I could figure out whose blogs were from librarians in LARL.
Now I am going to try and find an avatar for my site.