Social Networking Week 3 MLA

This has been a fairly simple assignment. My challenge has been to add applications to my profile because I cannot locate the "browse more applications." While this is very cool, I can't keep up with my email, phone, and paper piles so I'm wondering how this affects workflow. Also, my hospital is not a network and I was hesitant to make it one. It is challenging to post a question for the class, then remember to look for an answer later.

To Blog or Wiki That is the Question

The blog is an commentary on any topic. Others may comment on the notes left by others. I am most familar with news blogs. One reads the news story and sees the comments of readers and can add one, too.
Wikis, on the other hand, are more conducive to sharing documents and content that is ever changing. I can see more use for wikis in our library, perhaps for keeping tabs on the never ending list of issues that emerge in our audiovisual service or for policies or procedures. Also, I think it could be used to create a collaborative policy, such as a disaster plan. Each could add his/her area of knowledge to create the larger whole.
KW

Link to MLA Wiki

http://mlawikiclass.wetpaint.com/

Link to MLA Blog

http://sns.mlanet.org/snsce/

MLA CE Week 1

RSS feeds can help me keep up with the topics that are critical to my job description and to my professional development. Also, I could use this at home to be a more delighted gardener, etc.Patrons can use this to track a favorite journal or a topic such as a search on a national patient safety goal. They could create searches (ahem, that would library staff) on topics of interest to committee or hospital goals. This is very cool stuff. The most challenging piece, though, was figuring out if a source had an RSS feed and, sometimes, figuring out how to use them.

This took a lot more time than I had anticipated, probably because I had to create searches, look up journals for feeds (I wanted ones for which I had subscriptions), etc. I'm concerned that if I have to spend this much time every week, I won't be able to finish.

Other question: I am going out of state on vacation. How can I do that week? I'll be on a mountaintop without cell phone service, etc.

RSS feeds can help me keep up with the topics that are critical to my job description and to my professional development. Also, I could use this at home to be a more delighted gardener, etc.

Patrons can use this to track a favorite journal or a topic such as a search on a national patient safety goal. They could create searches (ahem, that would library staff) on topics of interest to committee or hospital goals.

This is very cool stuff. The most challenging piece, though, was figuring out if a source had an RSS feed and, sometimes, figuring out how to use them.

DrWatson embarks on Web 2.0

Otherwise known as Gumshoe Librarian, I am interested in investigating the latest tools and techniques fo the trade. I hope to solve the mysteries of TechnoBabble and apply them to the finest of libraries. Ahem, that would be mine.