To Do: Woo hoo!

Done!  And Wiki says it is time for a snooze.  But before that, WHERE’S MY STERLING SILVER TRAVEL GOBLET CUSTOM ENGRAVED WITH MY NAME?  Oh, scratch that.  Wiki wants a SOLID GOLD KITTY BOWL WITH HER NAME BLINGED OUT IN DIAMONDS!  “Blinged”, Wiki?  She obviously resented the implication by that little whippersnapper Dickens that she wasn’t hip.  After all, who has the social networking page?  Ning that, Dickens!  #2 on Wiki’s “to do” list — find new home for that annoying kitten.  Right after #1 — take a nap.  Guess it’s easy to tell we chose to explore online to do lists for our wildcat … uhh … wildcard assignment.  And the winner is?  http://workhack.com/  Simple.  Quick.  To the point.  A lot like the sticky notes and little lists of paper that are written on the backs of receipts and stuffed in my calendar, under my calendar, on my monitor … until they fall off and get lost.  In fact I promptly started making a to do list on Workhack.  The main drawback is that it looks like it would be difficult to organize items and find them again when the list gets too long.  Todoist, on the other hand, looked way too complicated.  Precisely the sort of thing that would end up on a paper list somewhere under “input tasks on Todoist”.  Like that would ever happen.  Ta-Da List looked like it would have more flexibility than Workhack, but less than Todoist.  Still … it’s a bunch of lists.  Good if you have several repetitive tasks with many steps … like packing lists for foreign trips.  Or steps necessary to find a certain kitten a new home.  Actually, Wiki now has several new tools she can use to get rid of find a good home for Dickens.  This blog for one.  And his photo is up on Flickr.  She could also put something about him on her .ning page.  Or pass a google doc around with his photo and info.  She could mention him every time she meebos someone.  And hey!  Put a video of him up on YouTube!  Someone is bound to see how cute he is in action and want to adopt him.  All because she studied Web 2.0.  And how does this all apply to the library?  I think some features more so than others.  I’ve found blogging to be the most fun, but not so applicable to the library perhaps.  Video tours of the libraries would be useful.  Online to do lists.  Delicious for people who work at multiple libraries.  Some of these tools would be more useful for the public and others for the staff.  I have seen so many technological breakthroughs and changes in my lifetime that “permanent” is a little too concrete of a word to bandy about.  I think that some aspects of Web 2.0 will live on, albeit in altered forms, while others are strictly a passing fancy.  All in all, this has been a worthwhile way to spend a summer.  Too bad I wasn’t paid for all the hours I put in!  No “argh” this time.  Just a “whew”!

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