Thing 1.5 - the confluence of free time and functioning technology

Last week, I had been thinkging about Thing 2 - Library 2.0. Lots of fresh ideas, I only needed to sit down and see what would float to the top of my conscousness. Except - my lawn HAD to be mowed. I ran home during my 'free' hour, and mowed the lawn. It was so happy for the attention.
Second opportunity, I sat down in my favorite coffee shop spot, and tried to connect. And tried to connect. I hadn't noticed in previous visits the 'name' of the particluar network I had been using. I just connected right up. But this time, i jiggled all my settings, went through all my options and properties. After 30 minutes, I asked the other laptop user in the room, and she told me the system is down. No known fix (and even worse, I hadn't brought anything else to read!!!).
So, after dinking again this time, I finally am in, but don't have those golden words at the tip of my fingers. Just to say that I was searching some concept at work last week, looking for a graphic or promotional document that would explain a product to one of my clients, and I found, in a basic google search a posting from the SLA blog last month (actually, this month, for a few more hours). There was my answer, from a librarian blog, and I wasn't even looking for that!
It seems that Library2.0 may already be here, if I am able to find it without even looking. More next time on Library 2.0 specifically.

Thing #1 Set up my Blog

I have two free hours each week near a coffee shop with free WiFi while my son does his Tae Kwan Do, so two hours a week should be enough to make a dent in this project.

I actually set up my blog with the last posting, but now I'm taking a few minutes to think about the whole thing. So, I'll title this posting as 'Thing #1'.

Setting up my blog for the first time - an exhilarating process - I had a tight schedule, and was trying to get the Blog, the Avitar, and all the details set up, and take careful notes so I would be able to get back in. And then find the time to actually post.

In the mean time, I have taken a few minutes to review some other postings, especially from the first session of '23 things', and it looks like quite a few people managed the exhilaration of Thing 1, but never made it back in.

Also, while looking at other blogs, I see some academic librarians, quite a few public librarians, but I've only noticed one (from the previous session) who were from a corporate library. I'm quite curious how web 2.0 (library 2.0) can/will fit into the corporate library environment (not to anticipate my thoughts about thing #2) .

My workplace has made some stabs at wikis and blogs for different workgroups and corporate-wide, so in a sense people all around me are trying to see how these new technologies will fit into our futures as individuals and organizations, and I'm hoping to use this experience to get my mind around these opportunities. The technologies are here (even in the corporation), but how can we apply them? Stay tuned!

First blog posting

This would be my first blog, my first blog posting, and my first of 23 'things' for things on a stick. Let's get going.

I'm finding the littlest things really tricky. Like I 'published' a sentence, then chickened out and tried to back up. Really, I just put it into edit. Then had difficulty getting back into it.

I realized that I almost missed the deadline, but hopefully, since I managed to complete all four steps, I'm good to go. I'll need to find the resources to work on this from home, as clearly, this will be quite time consuming.

Need to work on another project today, so I'd better close this entry for 'thing 1'