As I mentioned in another post, I use LibraryThing and love it. However, I have private settings. I think it would be more useful to make my tags and bookmarks public- perhaps I could link to them within my research pathfinders. I think I'm ready to take that next step.
As for trying new things, I signed up for Remember the Milk, which bills itself as a task organizer. I loved the title, to start with! I am feeling overwhelmed with getting one daughter off to college this weekend while we also pack for a trip to visit my other daughter in L.A.- I thought that two task lists would help me feel less overwhelmed- NOT TRUE! The site is not very user-friendly- you have to dig for a "how to", and the FAQ page went on forever- no thanks!
I then tried Trailfire, thinking that it would be useful for classes to create an annotated web trail. I just didn't find the site useful. It was not easy to search existing trails by subject area- they did have a tag cloud, but there were some really bizarre (as well as really obscure) tags. I did click into a few random ones, including a Webkins trail- there was nothing new or unusual, only 5 sites and one was Wikipedia. I can't see how I would send students here.
Maybe I'm just not having an open mind, but, with all the new tools I am learning, I don't see the need for looking for more- it's interesting to know so many are out there, but I feel as though my plate is full as it is. I am interested, though, to see several whiteboard presentation site links- I do not presently have a whiteboard in the library, but in the future would like to see that added- in that case, I will explore these. (Matt- it would be good to keep this blog up and running so that we can have access to these links down the line!) I also hope to utilize the calendar options in our district email this year- so the need for additional calendar productivity tools would not make sense. It makes better sense to utilize the ones that we have in place with district email.
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