Thing 28: Customized Home Pages

I think that customized Home Pages are an interesting aspect to explore and it was interesting to look at Pageflakes and Netvibes; without having to mess with my iGoogle or My Yahoo page. Having your own personalized Home Page can be a fun thing. The main problem I have with customized Home Pages is that they alway seem to take forever to load so if I want to do something on that page I usually have to wait for the page to load which can take a while. If I need to move to another website the loading customized Home Page can cause me to waste time while I watch it load. However, they are fun to look at. In all, they are interesting ideas and if I had better internet speed I may consider them but for right now I am just wasting time loading images and widgets I really don't need to view.

Thing 27: Twitter

I thought Twitter was interesting to look at. Yet, I just don't take to time to update my status or read what other people write. I think that twitter can be useful to a library and really fun if a lot of people were involved. I think it would be fun to have a book reading twitter meaning that anyone in a library system can sign in to write what they are reading which others who subscribe could see. I did look at some of the library created twitter which could be an interesting way to do publicity for the library. In all twitter can be an interesting and helpful tool for a library.

Thing 26: Join the Ning

I had joined the 23 Things on a Stick Ning in the first round and didn't do much else. So, this time around I actually got some friends and talked to different people and looked at different videos people had uploaded to the Ning. I feel that Ning is a really great formate for a library to create a Ning and having people subscribe and join the library in social networking.

Thing 25: Blogger's Toolkit

I played around with a lot of widgets and I will not lie it took me a long time for me to figure out how to insert the desired html for the widget I wanted. However, I finally figured it out and it was relativity painless to use. The features that I added was a clock (because I like to keep time), RSS feed (so that other people can subscribe to my blog easily), and some fun features like hangman or trivia. So, there is a lot of widgets that a person can chose and it was a lot of fun to play around with them. I can see how some of these features like the RSS feed or the polls can really helpful to get people interested in your website or blog.