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Wrap-up | December 18, 2009

Thus endeth 25 Things for me.  I’ve really enjoyed the experience and I’ve come away with a couple of web applications that I plan on using for awhile.  I sign into Google Reader at home and at work to follow my growing collection of RSS feeds – better than the finicky reader that comes with IE.  The library-related RSS feeds in turn help me create Twitter tweets and posts for the new website.  Flickr has helped me better manage my club website and I’m seriously thinking of using it to host my photos on my own hobby website.  LibraryThing is definitely worth further study – can we do a sort of library account?  Only one way to find out. 

And that kind of sums up the answers to a whole bunch of questions.  Are these services useful?  How do we use them?  How can we help patrons use them?  Should we recommend them?  The answer is…only one way to find out.  And that one way is to get our hands dirty and use them.  Try them out – if they’re useful, great.  If not, well, I’ve wasted more time in my life doing things that were less useful. 

Thanks for the chance to mess around using work time.  And maybe we’ll have to have 25 Things 2.0 in a few years to deal with all of the new stuff that comes along in the future.