I write the occasional blog post for Techsoup – they prod and I eventually produce a post.

The most recent was on the Joys of Jing! I totally heart Jing for training videos.  Need to make some more after we upgrade Koha again this week.

That spurred Brenda and Cindi to play with it for Heather’s ESU class, which Brenda wrote about in It’s a Jing Thing.

Have you heard of plurk?  It’s a cross between twitter and facebook, popular with educators.  Heather brought it to my attention a few months ago…obviously I haven’t done much with it (I only have two friends).  My best friend is a teacher and her husband is a superintendent, so maybe I’ll start using it more to keep up with them.  The Plurk Karma is interesting – if you spam or people quit following you, it decreases your karma…while adding friends and “quality plurking” will increase it.

I’m startled sometimes by how often I mention, in a work situation, “well, I saw on Facebook (or Twitter) a link to such and such” or “I read on her Facebook that Librarian did this really cool thing.”  For something that started as a lark to find old friends and see pictures of my family and friends, these sites have turned out to be valuable tools at work.  I doubt that the business world would benefit from social networking as much as the rather informal library world does, but I don’t really have a way to test that.