Music Streaming and Sharing (Thing 17)

My experience: I opened an account with Last.fm. It was really easy to use. I had a lot of fun listening to all kinds of music. One track of The Temptations was not very clear; the quality of the sound was lost because it was recorded live but you could really see their moves! I really like the site as a whole; you could get biographical information, see videos, get the latest news, events, listen to tracks and so much more. It is nice to have so much information and the music of artists/groups at your fingertips on one site.
Suggestions of other artists were helpful. The music is similar to the music by the particular group/artist you are listening to and jogs you memory of other groups you might have forgotten about.
As far has helping patrons, you can get a lot of information quickly for them. You can tell them if an artist or group is on tour, they most listened to song, biographical information, a list of the group's/artist's albums, pictures just about anything you want or need to know about an artist or group.
I think eventually people with stop purchasing CDs. My daugther stopped wanting CDs several years ago. You can build you own music library, pick and choose the tracks you want right in the comfort of you own home.

Google Maps (Thing 15)

This is the link for directions to the Frankford Village Library in Carrollton Texas.

Got the directions from my home to the library. Checked traffic currently but also check traffic on different days and different times.

E-mailed map to me. Clicked on my street to see a camera view of my street with an arrow. Could click to receive street by street directions with pictures. Checked traffic on 75.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=408+Tenbury+Ct,+Allen,+TX+75002&daddr=Frankford+Village+Library,+4220+North+Josey+Lane,+Carrollton,+TX+75010-4600&hl=en&geocode=FYL7-AEdJE89-imbNZngvBBMhjHiEKssVlVOPQ%3BFYzv9wEdtKs5-iE0ZVoPyJJq_ykXKDQxByVMhjEHSH1S7q8JFg&mra=ls&sll=33.029678,-96.883621&sspn=0.180762,0.307961&ie=UTF8&ll=33.043781,-96.764145&spn=0.187928,0.307961&z=12&layer=t&dirflg=d>




This is an amazing site. You can do so much. Will want to play with this and explore more later.

You Send It (Thing 14)

Very easy to use. The Powerpoint Presentation for our session at TLA, Bluebonnet 101 was a very large file plus we had a link with a portion of the DVD we wanted to include. So I sent the just the clip as a practice to myself using You Sent It. You Send It indicated this was a large file and the next step was to create an account which took less than 5 seconds. The link of the clip took 2 minutes 30 seconds to be sent by You Send It to my e-mail. Once I was in my email, You Send It opened right up, with a button to download file. In seconds I was watching the clip. Useful tool.

Tiny URL (Thing 13)

To look at the car go to http://tinyurl.com/1997BMW.
I also shorten url to get to Driver's License page and to a picture of a Mori Lee gown.
There have been times when I have looked up information for a patron and have gotten a long url. This site will come in handy!

Facebook (Thing 12)

I have had a Facebook account for probably a year but I must admit I checked it today for the first time in a very long time. I added a little to my profile but not much. Arlington Library has a library Facebook page and a teen Facebook page. The Teens Facebook latest update was Feb. 11. The library's Facebook page was today. I also looked at TLA's Facebook page. It was updated today as well.
I now know in order to gain friends and to keep them interested you must put something on your Facebook page everyday. You must interact with your visitors, add photos and videos, point out stuff that is happening so use Facebook calendar to list events.

Linked In (Thing 11)

Created a Linked In profile. Included education, past employment, current employment, marital status and birthday. Did not add any connections.
Did find out that my husband has an account! I was surprised but not totally shocked.
Searched companies, City of Frisco and adidas. Interesting what information is included. Career path for employees of City of Frisco gave me a chuckle as it stated City of Plano! Well that is true for me.

Delicious (Thing 9)

My link is: www.delicious.com/cboatfield11.

I think librarians could send patrons websites that would be helpful to them in their search. This way they would be all together.

Librarians could compile websites on various school projects.
Librarians could share websites with their colleagues about programming for teens say or a topic of study by librarians or common websites used by librarians.

I have really enjoyed learning the various 23 Things viewing the Common Craft Videos. I think they really make something that seems so foreign at first understandable. They are engaging; never boring. They get right to the heart of what is this and how do I use it.
Perhaps the library could create one for our Express Check or perhaps how to search a database.