Thing 22 -- Keep Going!

How to work blogging into one's day and make it meaningful...? Hmmm. As one responsible for staff training in technology, we find it rarely goes over well when one tries to impose additional responsibilities on already overwhelmed staff. So the question is, what job that already exists can be improved or made redundant by the new technology.

Can hardcopies be replaced by posting online? Think about library information, appropriate internet usage guidelines for staff, new book lists or reviews, class schedules, calendars, "tip of the week" -- if the habit has been to plop copies in staff mailboxes, how about putting a link in an e-mail instead? Now that's a document that can't be lost on a messy desk, can be accessed from anywhere, and months later will still be there when, inevitably, someone calls to say they've lost their copy.

And when new ideas are needed, we now have a new and exciting way to find out how others in our field have already succeeded. Of course, we can share as well. Everyone saves time when we're not busy reinventing the wheel.

In short, don't do Web 2.0 too, do it instead!

As to some specific and immediate ideas, Miss Shelved hopes that if she takes a moment to record a book just read she will be less likely to forget that she's read it.