Tuesday 29 May 2012

Well, I am still mulling thing 3 over. It seems to me that the first three things are totally interconnected, for example I now find I can't change my snarky Blog title to something more touchy-feely, I'm stuck with it, or so it seems. If you can advise me dear blog reader then I will be very grateful as I am still more like a monkey with a typewriter than anything.

On the up side I am battling vertigo to read All of Ned Potters totally brilliant Prezi called 'You aready have a brand!' and it makes me think about what I am about and where I want to go.

I tried Googling myself and found others with the same name but not me, I am a bit miffed but there if you don't enter the raffle you can't win, can you?

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Well, I am still behind and trying to catch up.

I have been checking out blogs and am amazed at how complex some people's are. And how adept some are at marketing themselves already, surely some actually have the 23 things in hand now?

I left a weedy comment on Dowling Knitting Librarians blog a she is a knitter too. After I left it I realised I had committed the schoolgirl error of the me-too post. I think I need to check out the comments on other blogs and mug up on accepted etiquette etc.

Monday 14 May 2012

I am taking part in the 23 things course so that I can see the depths of my ignorance.
I am a 56 year old Learning Assistant* in a Further Education college with students of all ages from 16 onwards.
 I read with interest and dismay that email is becoming old hat and post getting too expensive to use, so we must, even just to maintain the  service to our users, be aware of how people communicate and be able to reach them where they are, not where we think they are.
Now, I am not a gadgety or techy sort of person. Not anything like what is termed an ‘early adopter’. I have got a mobile phone and it is switched on and (usually) has a battery charge. However, it is for me to contact the world not the other way around.  And anyway it lives in my bag which is hung up in the hall at home and put away in my locker in work. Good luck with contacting me; I don’t know what the phone number is anyway. That is the sum of my personal gadgets.

Of course I use computers, I am using one now. I even have an ECDL. I use one every day at work and even at home. Sometimes. I am comfortable being an old-fashioned reading books and writing things down sort .

I am aware  that many others use their devices instead, I still think of them as phones but of course they are well past that point. They are the conduit of whole lives, fragile and precious and pretty much irreplaceable. So if that is where a lot of our users are then I think that we need to be there too. And I need to find out as much as I can about it.

So I am prepared to be amazed.

*  I am on the front line, if people are trying to flatter me they call me a para professional, this means I try to do the fancy stuff while issuing, returning and filling the printer.