Week Two: Online Communitities Continued

As a Facebook user, I am concerned about the mixing of my professional and personal lives. I am a building supervisor and have resisted the offers of fellow staff to be my Facebook Friend. I don't want the staff to modify their online behaviors due to my presence nor do I wish to find out information that should have no bearing on our professional relationship.

I posted this dilemma to the discussion list and was offered a few possibilities--a separate FB account or another social networking site like Linked In. I have enough diffitculty keeping up with one FB page and don't need yet another page to check. So for now...I will stick with with things as they are.

I love Facebook. I enjoy the silly applications, the cheezy quizes and polls, but most of all the opportunities to see messages and pictures in a single place. Facebook has connected me with people I haven't talked to in more than 10 years. I will continue to use FB and will probably stick with it long after the next big thing comes along. I never got into MySpace and think the tools and sophistication of FB are more my speed.

With premission from the Director and the Board, I would be pleased to create a Library page on Facebook to post information, programs, and pictures. I am the person in the building who takes the picture and now each major event in our building is coverd on my Facebook page. I would love for this to be a place where I would dialogue with our Library's "fans" about books, both those we own and might consider purchasing.

You can find me on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=1395106038#/profile.php?ref=name&id=1395106038

Check out my photo albums to see pictures of our American Girl Tea Party and Touch-a-Truck.

Happy Facebooking--patty

Week Two: Online Communities

Wow! As an avid Facebook junkie...I thought this week might be a breeze. I was already a fan of the 23 Things Page as well as a fan of KLA along with Worlds of Fun, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the John Hancock Observatory. So I looked into the Mashable Social Media Guide and my first try out, I found something super useful. With its assistance I change some of my setting on my FB page and eliminated a bit of the annoying junk that comes into my FB world!!!
So far, I proclaim week Two a Success!!!

Happy Tuesday friends!

Week One: Blogging

Welcome to Patty's 23 Things!

I am currently working as the Assistant Director for Youth Services at the Dorothy Bramlage Public Library in Junction City. Prior to obtaining this position in 2003, I spent 5 years working as a School Media Specialist for Dodge City Public Schools and 5 years as the Head of Children's services at the Dodge City Public Library.

I am a bit of a stereotype, I am single, a Librarian, and I have a cat! (and I can laugh about it!)

The 23 Things process will be somewhat challenging for me as I self-directed learning often results in Internet surfing, Facbooking, etc. I am excited to learn the meaning of all of the buzz words that fly through library land, and how to use the technology to connect with the young patrons I serve. There are days that I am certain kids and YAs are speaking a completely different language. Maybe there will be some "things" that won't be completely foreign to me by the end of April.