Late Thing 4:
Been there – done that. I’m slightly overloaded with technology logins that I decided not to use Pushnote. I’m currently using Diigo for my tagging site which has a sticky note feature. No you don’t get to add friends and the like but I don’t worry about the social networking thing most of the time (See post cpd23: Week 2 for more explanation).
I’ve been on Twitter for several years. I post once every few months. I have recently used the twitter account mainly to check out the conference scene and hear about what I’ve missed at this year’s conferences (ACRL and ALA). I was happily surprised to find that I knew of several of the main speakers mentioned, or the main topics reviewed.
It seems if you stay on top of a few blogs (check), listservs (check) and read up on any concepts that you are unfamiliar with the conference scene is a little boring because you’ve already spend your time trying to keep up on the hubbub of librarianship. Now I’m sounding really condescending and pompous, but it’s probably true for 60% of the conferences (that relate to my field of academics).
In fact I’m attempting to put together a quick handout for educating the faculty and administrators at my college on Creative Commons licenses. Since we are a for-profit institution the best way to fly around copyright sure seems to have the “human readable” text right there in front of the user. My initial “ask around” to see who’s even heard of it was amazingly filled with negative responses, and few educated guesses.
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