Blogs

Like all things, it takes time to accustom yourself, and gets much quicker as you become more familiar with it. Once I am using the blogs regularly, I'm sure I'll wonder why I could ever have been searching for how to do something. It is already improving, but it seems to have taken me a long time today to do not a great deal.

Thoughts on week 1

I found the instructions extremely clear. I am glad that they assume no knowledge. It doesn't matter if we know bits already because there always comes that point where you think you know something - until you actually try to do it on your own.

There are two or three of us doing it here, and we are fortunate in also having people who know exactly what they are doing. We had a good few laughs over creating the iGoogle pages!

First blog by an amateur

Well, I've got this far! So far, so good...

Why am I doing this? Because I feel I'm getting left behind. We use all sorts of Web 2.0 tools in the library and I ought to be able to use them myself. I may be old but I don't want to turn into a dinosaur! I know it's mainly a matter of confidence and understanding the terminology etc, and I know I can do it if I give it a bit of time, but that's what I never do - so here is my opportunity.

What do I know already? I have a Facebook account, and I use it to keep track sometimes of other people, but I don't really do anything with it myself. I'm not entirely sure of the implications of some of the things, and am slightly wary about what I put out.

Hopefully, by April, I will be more confident at actually using the tools.