23 Things: #23

Thing 23 completed...

This program generally has been an effective exercise in exploring tools and resources that fall under the rubric of Web 2.0. I think the expectation that we as librarians should be familiar with web tools that some of our patrons are using is reasonable and I appreciate InfoPeople's presenting Helene Blowers' program to us in this format.

One thing that would have been useful is the provision of guidelines for how much time one may have expected to complete the program. Maybe even for some of the Things, like Flickr, something like, if you just want to explore what's there, spend x amount of time, but if you really want to dig into it, upload photos with tags, spend y amount of time.

This last observation is not directed at all at InfoPeople but at library administrators and managers. Asking staff to complete 23 Things is fine. But when one more task is loaded on the front end, does anything get taken off the back end? If not, even staff who are open to exploring these technologies feel like they're saddled with one more thing to do, one more thing added to one's workload. And this feeling potentially dampens one's enthusiasm for undertaking the project.