Thing #1

I just completed adding a photo to my blog, as well as links to a couple blogs that I like. I hope to add to this list. It was pretty easy to add page elements using the Blogger software.

We have been talking about creating a blog for nurses where I work, but the challenge is defining some of the parameters for the blog. I think a blog should really have a primary purpose or theme, especially in a work setting. And who will be the administrator of the blog? How will it be monitored? Can anyone post anything? Does it need an administrator like a listserv to sift out the wheat from the chaff? Also, how will it be promoted? Library directors and company CEOs are blogging these days, as well as front-line librarians, but is it appropriate, useful, even possible to promote blogging amongst busy workers in a healthcare setting? I think those of us over "a certain age" feel it may take too much time on an ongoing basis, but I wonder if the younger folks probably wouldn't (and don't) find it time-consuming at all. Food for thought anyway!

First Post

This is a great opportunity to play with the new technologies and I'm looking forward to the lessons. Like listening to new music, learning about new web tools involves keeping an open mind and letting the theme take you where it will. There aren't any wrong or right answers, you can't "break" it, and we aren't being graded, so, yahoo, let's have some fun!

I work in a smallish library in a very specialized setting, so I appreciate being exposed to lots of other folks from different environments.

Glad to be on board with 23-Things-on-a-Stick!