First, the rant...
After not being able to afford the time for this blog for the previous two Fridays I began feeling the pressure of committments against time, i.e., more and more work committments but the same amount of time to do them all within. And seeing as I am the only one who will be let down if I do not work on this blog ( and everything else I do will affect some one else by my not doing it) my professional development (PD) slips, yet again, by the wayside.
A further aspect of this inability to get ahead with my PD is the inability to deal appropriately with the endless stream of emails concerning the latest library 'thing'. Being unable to afford the time to read and digest I inevitably end up bookmarking the page with the plan to return to later in my PD time. That's the plan. The reality is an ever-expanding favourites list. Best intentions.
Then there's the guilt. I've been working on this for two hours now and the thought keeps popping into my head that I should be doing my real job. But no, this is important. The amount of new learning that is occuring is pleasing to the soul (and goes to outweigh the guilt).
By having another look at Twitter, a new look at RSS feeds and not bothering to look at PushNote I was able to complete Thing 4. I think I've had a breakthrough with Twitter, adding enough people to follow to start getting a range of interesting tweets. For so long I've waited for nothing to happen. Now I am beginning to see how it could work to keep me up-to-date with things going on. In terms of RSS feeds my first issue was working out where to put all the bookmarks. Only ended up selecting a couple as they were the only ones that peaked my interest. Will see what having an RSS feed means (and hope that the websites I have chosen will update themselves often enough to warrant the feed). As PushNote was about rating and commenting on websites, and I have no inclination to want to do that, I did not bother with it. Perhaps later?
Great ideas come to those who wait ... after remembering my Wiki page I finally thought to add a link from there through to this blog at the top of the page where people might see it and might visit?
Then there's the guilt. I've been working on this for two hours now and the thought keeps popping into my head that I should be doing my real job. But no, this is important. The amount of new learning that is occuring is pleasing to the soul (and goes to outweigh the guilt).
By having another look at Twitter, a new look at RSS feeds and not bothering to look at PushNote I was able to complete Thing 4. I think I've had a breakthrough with Twitter, adding enough people to follow to start getting a range of interesting tweets. For so long I've waited for nothing to happen. Now I am beginning to see how it could work to keep me up-to-date with things going on. In terms of RSS feeds my first issue was working out where to put all the bookmarks. Only ended up selecting a couple as they were the only ones that peaked my interest. Will see what having an RSS feed means (and hope that the websites I have chosen will update themselves often enough to warrant the feed). As PushNote was about rating and commenting on websites, and I have no inclination to want to do that, I did not bother with it. Perhaps later?
Great ideas come to those who wait ... after remembering my Wiki page I finally thought to add a link from there through to this blog at the top of the page where people might see it and might visit?
Nice blog. As a librarian and former teacher, if you aren't already into cryptic crosswords you might like to have a peek at a series of posts I have been doing on how to solve them. They are just fantastic for clever word play. This is a link to the first post. There is now a new clue each day to solve. Enjoy. http://caroleschatter.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/cryptic-crosswords-solving-hints-1.html
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