Thing 2 - looking at some blogs

I randomly chose some blogs to view and was surprised by how interesting they were. I also got that sense of hyper that comes from interacting online with the traces of others' thoughts and thinking about how interconnected the web can encourage us to be.

It was good to see someone like Valerie in her blog talk of coming back to this activity.

Going further a posting on Action by havoc also talked of being familiar with these tools, but perhaps not with a purpose as exploratory, reflective and professionally situated as lots of Info. Professionals (and others) getting together virtually in 23things and doing it.

And that for me is the inspiring part of it;- the contextual purpose. Sure I have blogged before, but am sure no one really looked at it, and probably am glad they didn't!

Next of all Addicted to Story talked about the importance of having something to say. This is interesting, as blogging just to promote oneself as I mentioned in my first post, would be rather shallow. I appreciated the humour in this post as well: shall we turn into a

supersonic library blogging monster

Just wish I could be a monster devourer of blog content ...

Lastly in the Adventures of a red headed traveller the problem of travelling to a country like Burma was discussed, ah here I found content that was close to my heart. Having being along the thai-burmese border a few years ago, I felt at first hand the pangs of consternation of handing over 10$ to a border guard when I had just past thousands of his burmese locked up in refugee camps in Thailand, and heard the shelling of some poor faction along the border.

Blogging as an Information Professional

Sure this (bloggging) has to be one of the important uses of the internet today. I would imagine there are great opportunities for networking, idea generation, staying aware of developments, professional promotion. Balanced against of course the time and energy spent and actual utility of the content for everyday work.

Of course this has to be tried out. Simply negating its value before real experience of blogging wouldn't be very enlightened.

So I am thankful to the organisers of this course for their help!

Thing 1 - Why I'm doing the 23things course

Purpose
This course is for CPD, and because as the web now allows us to publish more ourselves, it is good to learn about how everybody is doing it. I have used some of these applications before, but in different contexts, and think there is always more to learn.

Hopefully it will be fun also!

Thoughts on links and presentations
Ned Porter's argues that a good motivation to get an online presence is that it could be the winning element in job applications: - point taken.
But hopefully all bloggers are not so career obsessed, as their blogs would be incredibly shallow and boring if that were the primary motivation!

blog by Bobbi L. Newman
Looks like some interesting stuff, what's transliteracy?