Thing 3 web 2.0 experience
Ok so the question from the 23 things for research blog is:
"For your first 23 Things blog post, we’d like you to write a short piece about your experiences with social media and what you hope to get out of the 23 Things for Research and the Engage: Social Media Michaelmas programme. If you’re new to social media, do you have any ideas about how it might help or affect your work? If you’re using it already, what do you use? What are you hoping to explore?"
My experience with social media... hm, where do I start?
I have several blogs and I'm on almost everything web 2.0 or at least a lot from google products
see left hand side of the Library Blog I look after: The Language Library, Oxford University
Thanks to the lovely people at San Diego Language Centre, (sorry I ought to write Language Center really in that case!), I have discovered paper.li. I am also exploring Google + and linking with as many libraries and universities as possible all over the world and in many languages.
I also have a professional blog (on which I am writing these lines) and I am on linkedin and of course use facebook, it is mostly for fun, but also for work as I am friend with many librarians at Oxford and in other libraries, including the Sydney University Language Centre Librarian :-)I am also, of course, a following many Oxford University facebook pages, many colleges libraries, the Bod, the Oxford Union Library, the many languages societies (Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Russian etc...)
(Also in my other lives, I learn Russian and I thing having a blog is great for learning how to type non-latin writing systems. And I write poems (in English, French or Russian) in another blog and take pictures that I post directly onto the blog or through flickr. And yes I write essays sometimes, or vacations' diary. But I don't really want to put the web links here as perhaps I would prefer to just show my professional profile here. I also write review (mostly films) for the wonderful daily info at Oxford I have used mobile tech a lot with language cards from quizlet downloaded onto my mobile in order to learn my Russian vocab or to do some grammatical exercices on the bus going to work, done many quizzes , learned to type on a Russian keyboard, etc... the web 2.0 worlds is quite good for non-latin writing system, or at least for Russian it is :-)
What I hope to get out of 23 Things for Research? Well... discover new web 2.0 sites that would promote my library, that would link me with other language libraries in the world. Being isolated, especially when one works as a one-person librarian, is not an option. Also, to continue communicating with other librarians in order to stay in touch with the latest technology, news, etc...Twitter in that respect has been great, as you can meet lots of other librarians in the UK thanks to initiatives coming from CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals. (and in my other life, to continue writing poems on the web and contribute to an already quite impressive collection of poetry in Russian on the www)
Also, I'm interested in copyright and it is interesting how the new web 2.0 world can create new challenges... such as Pinterest and Flickr with images for example. One blog I follow is the fantastic 1709 blog for copyright as it keeps reminding me that I do not know anything about copyright (or if I am starting to undertand, a new case emerges!)
I don't really think much before using web 2.0 stuff, rather I do things and then it helps me reflect on what I have done, and what I need to do. Most of my reflexive thinking about this processes has been recorded here, in the Web 2:Oxford wiki
You might wonder why I did not do the 23 things for librarians that was done at Oxford previously... well because I did not find the time to do it then,... but also, also... I think it is good to think outside the librarians' world and also to make ourselves (we librarians, weird things) known outside the librarians' bubble: OUR JOB ULTIMATELY IS TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY OF READERS. So it is good for me to discover researchers' blogs. I'd be delighted also to see people using blogs at Oxford for learning a language.
(A few grumpy things now... sorry...A few stuff I don't like about web 2.0:
"For your first 23 Things blog post, we’d like you to write a short piece about your experiences with social media and what you hope to get out of the 23 Things for Research and the Engage: Social Media Michaelmas programme. If you’re new to social media, do you have any ideas about how it might help or affect your work? If you’re using it already, what do you use? What are you hoping to explore?"
My experience with social media... hm, where do I start?
I have several blogs and I'm on almost everything web 2.0 or at least a lot from google products
see left hand side of the Library Blog I look after: The Language Library, Oxford University
Thanks to the lovely people at San Diego Language Centre, (sorry I ought to write Language Center really in that case!), I have discovered paper.li. I am also exploring Google + and linking with as many libraries and universities as possible all over the world and in many languages.
I also have a professional blog (on which I am writing these lines) and I am on linkedin and of course use facebook, it is mostly for fun, but also for work as I am friend with many librarians at Oxford and in other libraries, including the Sydney University Language Centre Librarian :-)I am also, of course, a following many Oxford University facebook pages, many colleges libraries, the Bod, the Oxford Union Library, the many languages societies (Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Russian etc...)
(Also in my other lives, I learn Russian and I thing having a blog is great for learning how to type non-latin writing systems. And I write poems (in English, French or Russian) in another blog and take pictures that I post directly onto the blog or through flickr. And yes I write essays sometimes, or vacations' diary. But I don't really want to put the web links here as perhaps I would prefer to just show my professional profile here. I also write review (mostly films) for the wonderful daily info at Oxford I have used mobile tech a lot with language cards from quizlet downloaded onto my mobile in order to learn my Russian vocab or to do some grammatical exercices on the bus going to work, done many quizzes , learned to type on a Russian keyboard, etc... the web 2.0 worlds is quite good for non-latin writing system, or at least for Russian it is :-)
What I hope to get out of 23 Things for Research? Well... discover new web 2.0 sites that would promote my library, that would link me with other language libraries in the world. Being isolated, especially when one works as a one-person librarian, is not an option. Also, to continue communicating with other librarians in order to stay in touch with the latest technology, news, etc...Twitter in that respect has been great, as you can meet lots of other librarians in the UK thanks to initiatives coming from CILIP, the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals. (and in my other life, to continue writing poems on the web and contribute to an already quite impressive collection of poetry in Russian on the www)
Also, I'm interested in copyright and it is interesting how the new web 2.0 world can create new challenges... such as Pinterest and Flickr with images for example. One blog I follow is the fantastic 1709 blog for copyright as it keeps reminding me that I do not know anything about copyright (or if I am starting to undertand, a new case emerges!)
I don't really think much before using web 2.0 stuff, rather I do things and then it helps me reflect on what I have done, and what I need to do. Most of my reflexive thinking about this processes has been recorded here, in the Web 2:Oxford wiki
You might wonder why I did not do the 23 things for librarians that was done at Oxford previously... well because I did not find the time to do it then,... but also, also... I think it is good to think outside the librarians' world and also to make ourselves (we librarians, weird things) known outside the librarians' bubble: OUR JOB ULTIMATELY IS TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY OF READERS. So it is good for me to discover researchers' blogs. I'd be delighted also to see people using blogs at Oxford for learning a language.
(A few grumpy things now... sorry...A few stuff I don't like about web 2.0:
- the possibility to be continuously online and therefore working a lot more outside your working hour could have some dangerous stressful effects, not to mention the risk of becoming "too hype" (but maybe that's just me).
- Health and safety: be careful with your thumbs when you twitter at conferences! Tablets are so much better :-) (I think you can rent a tablet at the RSL)
- The mix of personal and private information... how many accounts and personnalities can you handle? (ie I have a blog for my library, one for the librarian, one for the photograph, one for the poet and essay writer...). Google and Twitter are not as good as Facebook for handling two personalities at once, I have to log off and on again on my Google and Twitter accounts. With facebook, my library page is in my reach, and I can publish stuff on the library wall as the library, or as me. Very well done.
- sustainbility also: you need to update all your web 2.0 stuff, otherwise there's no point in having them, so do you really need them? That would be a first question. )
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