Advantages of social media... fostering the sharing of information... this is interesting as at the moment I find that people are far more willing to share information online than in the workplace - this maybe because of the economic climate - you are more likely to be competing for a job with those you see face to face on a daily basis - this is a real shame.

Have asked IT Dept to install Evernote on my PC as it is useful to have...
on minus side Summify is getting annoying...it seems to dreg up too much of my social / personal links on twitter etc. and not enough of the librarianship stuff.

Hmm - frustrating half hour with Evernote - loaded okay and downloaded web clipper thing, but can't get the latter to work - I really don't have the time for all of this :-(...
later got the thing to work... hoping it will be a constructive tool to use as constantly coming across useful pieces of info and to gather them in one place would be great! :-)

Tried out Summify - tip I picked up whilst on online chat forum... it picks out the top 5 items from your blog / twitter lists etc and posts them to you each day... all very well... but couple of problems
1. Twitter especially has both social and work contacts - both treated equally by summify...should I have a separate work twitter account?
2. I don't know what I'm missing out on so still need to check!

On the plus side - I have very little time to read emails / RSS feeds etc at the moment so it has a limited use

It does highlight a problem though - the overlap of professional and personal aspects of my life and information! This was increasingly evident on twitter, but now also on facebook as I have 'liked' CDP23 and one of my work colleagues who is a facebook friend is posting links about QR codes. So, lunchtime giving myself a break from it all by checking facebook can backfire!

Hmm - really getting a bit behind here - it doesn't do to go on holiday; you have twice as much to do when you get home!
However, have 'liked' 23 Things on Facebook (not difficult...) and joined an online discussion yesterday evening (impressive...) A little disconcerting that the other 13 people seemed to know an awful lot more than me, but I picked up one useful tip to pursue. I found out about the discussion via Twitter - now Twitter has been the beginning of it all for me; it started my networking journey.

Twitter

Have capitulated slightly (if that's possible!) and posted my photo onto my Twitter profile and yes! here too :-)

Twitter

Ah! Twitter! Joined a while back and vaguely followed a couple of celebs...
then went to LILAC11 for a day, which rekindled my interest!
Followed LILAC tweets and it's spread from there - some really interesting links AND you don't have to trawl through masses of text to get to useful info - :-)