Hmm, more blog debates....Thing 2

Well, having left some comments on the below blogs, realised I wanted to know what these people were going to say about my comments and also their future posts, so have now gone back and 'followed' where I can on blogger, or signed-up via email. 

Having seen this option on one blog, I've now added to mine, and can see how suddenly you can spend a huge amount of time (wasted time or productive?? not sure as yet!) playing with adding in gadgets/designs etc... more on this as I see how much time and how many options I look at over the next few weeks whilst updating this blog.

It's also the following that I have issues with - I can follow a few blogs via email, but obviously too many would be unmanageable - and RSS feeds, I just got overwhelmed with them all a few years ago, and haven't been checking these from the blogosphere or elsewhere for quite some while - I always go with an email where possible for work - perhaps this is very old fashioned but I like all my information in one place and system!

Perhaps the course will give me some ideas of how to better manage all this, but all suggestions welcome :-)

Thing 2: Investigate some other blogs

Well, I have had a little look around and seen how much effort some people go to with their blogs!  It is all still a little strange to me, this contributing online and commenting.  However, I've had a nice comment from a work colleague who has also signed up (http://durcan.blogspot.com/) and have posted a couple of comments to some of the other cpd23 blogs as encouragement to those who've just started, and are in the same postition as me - mainly selected by academic libraries and then if I liked the title! (so not very scientific):  http://librarianisms.blogspot.com/ and http://ssshhhhh.wordpress.com/

Onwards and upwards....

First blog post

Hi, well, here goes! 
Let me introduce myself - I'm the Information Librarian for Law and Human Sciences at Southampton Solent University and have decided to try out the 23 Things for Professional Development course this summer to see if I can start and enjoy using more web 2.0 applications in my work - I'm particularly interested in the weeks on collaboration, referencing and presenting.

Let's see how it goes...