Conclusion!

I now have so many online accounts I'm not sure I actually remember them all. Let alone passwords! Still it has been interesting and some of them I am definitely still using. LibraryThing in particular, I have found very useful, somuch so that I have signed up for a lifetime membership, and rediscovered a few authors I read a long time ago.

All in all, the exercises have been useful, at the very least just to know what some people are talking about when they talk about Rollyo, etc. As someone who works in an information service it is important to keep current with internet trends, but at the same time, working doesn't leave a lot of time for experimentation and exploration! This course has been helpful just by giving me a chance to do that.

It's also been interesting to note a few things that are probably going to have an effect on the way some library and education services will be delivered in the future, such as Second Life's virtual classrooms and ebooks.

It's been good, although more time consuming than I thought. I suppose once you get started, you could spend hours every day to fully explore a lot of the online applications. One reason why my blogs are a little short, I suppose, is that having done the reading and the exercise, there isn't a lot of time left over for blogging!

So this is my last one, before I shed my librarygirl cover and resume my former existence as an international woman of mystery. I shall miss it, but espionage beckons!