Thing 11

I think Common Craft is awesome -- they do a fabulous job of boiling things down.

Social Media. I was familiar with Reddit already because my son uses it and he had recommended it to me. I hadn't taken the tour until now though and my reactions was not as positive as when Paul showed me his Reddit page. The conclusion I would make now is that you have to choose your content according to your interests and refine it to what you'll enjoy reading because otherwise it would be overwhelming and be altogether too much. Sort of like receiving a Sunday New York Times every day and feeling guilty that you haven't got time to read all the fascinating articles. But on watching him, he gets it up on his iphone and thus never is at a loss for news articles to read wherever he is.

Looked at the other choices. I'm not motivated personally to use these for myself -- part of it is that doing these Things I've found myself using hours of my off time on the computer every night getting lost looking at blogs and sites I wasn't aware of before. That's not bad but it is a huge user of time. So I guess the answer to the blog prompt is - productivity detractor

I don't know how I'd use this for the Library but I'm glad to have explored it some.