Thing 30 - The end

Well...a fitting end to the program. I just wrote a looong final blog for this 'thing' and it disappeared. Oh well.
Let me see if I can remember what I wrote.
I learned a lot of fun, new stuff and expanded on some things I was already familiar with.
Early on I didn't think I'd be able to finish as I fell behind quickly due to mounds of work and lack of staff. But I hated the idea of everybody else learning stuff that I wasn't. So I vowed to finish.
Being behind actually had its advantages, as most of the kinks were worked out by the time I got around to each 'thing.'
ComIT was a real thorn in this process, but even they seemed to make some adjustments for us.
As far as improvements, I would change the expectation to one or two 'things' per week since most took much longer than 30 minutes.
I would definitely participate in another program like this again.
(not as well-written as the original, but I think I covered all the same points I had the first time I wrote this.)

Thing 29 - What have I learned?

I have learned a lot from the 30 things. Well, maybe not from all of them, but from many. I think my favorites were the image generators and mashups and Library Thing. Anything to do with working with pictures was much enjoyed as well.
I know I'll be playing around with a lot of these 'things' again...while some, like Rollyo, will be left behind forever.
I enjoyed looking at other's blogs and their takes on the whole blog process as well as the individual 'things.' Sometimes I felt like I wasn't including enough in my blogs, but it appears as though I was kinda in the middle...not too long, not too short...just right.

Thing 28 - Rollyo

Okay...I just couldn't bring myself to create another account for something I knew I would never use.
I understand the concept, but I think there are more disadvantages to this site than there would be advantages. It would limit search results greatly and you would potentially miss out on a lot of helpful stuff.

Thing 27 - Library Thing

Well...that's just cool.
I'm excited about this website, as I am about many I've learned about here.
I need one of these for my DVDs and my CDs too.

Thing 26 - Image generators

These were a hoot! I really liked the R2D2 translator and the Chinese Name generator There were a lot of fun picture ones too. I'll be playing with these more soon. (along with all of the other cool stuff I plan to play with when I have more time...which will probably be never.)

Thing 25 - Podcast summary

I'm actually writing about thing 25 before thing 24 because I had a hard time getting most of those podcasts to open, among other reasons. I'll work on that one from a non-work computer.
I really liked the Denver Public Library podcast site. I loved the storybooks, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. I would like to see us do more of that at VBPL.
There was another site, I don't remember which now, that had booktalk podcasts. I think that's a fabulous idea as well...although I couldn't get any of those to play correctly here at work. I think that's something our teens would really enjoy doing.

Thing 24 - podcasts

Okay. I got really frustrated trying to work with this one at work, so I saved this entry in my blog to work on at home.
I found the podcast search sites easy to use, but had a hard time thinking of something I wanted to look for. Finally I just did a search on "pandas" and found a podcast about the Asia Trail and Fujifilm Giant Panda Habitat at the National Zoo...which is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world!