Thing 1: Set Up a Blog and Register

I created this blog last night as a part of NEFLIN's 23 Things Project. A couple of years ago, I took a class where we created a blog using Blogger but never posted to the blog I had created. This will be my first attempt at blogging. The process of setting up the blog itself wasn't difficult. I had done it once before. The most challenging parts were trying to come up with a clever title and choosing a url for the blog. I finally gave up trying to come up with something clever and decided to take the easy way out and go with what I considered the obvious choice.

I mentioned to one of our IT people that I had set up a blog and he told me that he had never set up a blog. I have to admit, it was kind of a good feeling to think that I have now done something that someone on our IT staff hasn't.

There are three of us that I know about here at this Library who are participating in the 23 Things Project. I told one of the other participants that I think that blogging about my experiences will probably be the most difficult part of this for me, not because I find the process of blogging difficult from a technical point of view, but because I am a very private person and I don't feel comfortable sharing my experiences with the world in the form of a blog.

I hope that over the next few weeks the experience of participating in the 23 Things Project will inspire me to stretch myself and to try some things that I haven't tried before and perhaps to become more comfortable with others. I'm looking forward to exploring new technologies and their potential application in our library.