Things 23: Making It All Work Together

Going through alle 23 Things has been a very interesting and rewarding journey. 

I have worked through things I already knew of and use regularly, LinkedIn or presentation tools, and I have had a look at things that I only knew about in theory, podcasting or video. It has left me with a wish to use more of these tools both privately and at work to stay up to date - but it's so time consuming! It would only be realistic to spend more time on the tools if using them had a real purpose and I would gain quite a lot of benefit from using them. Come time come opportunity, I'm sure.

For one thing I'll definitely keep Buffer in mind and check it out for when this course is over and I plan to become much more active on LinkedIn and on my professional blog. All the interesting and inspiring things that I find today are kept in a mess of browser bookmarks, pins on pinterests and even emails to myself with links! I'm sure it can be done a little smarter :-)

Flipboard was my choice of curation tool in Thing 8 and didn't go too well technically, so I've given it another try. It sounded appealling that I can follow my social accounts in one place - I tend to forget to check them all out on a regular basis. And it works! There's quite a lot of clicking and scrolling even to read tweets - but that may just be my miniature iPhone 4 screen! Anyway, thanks for pointing out that feature. As I flip my way through the feed I'll get to know the app better and I might end up having a new favourite.

Thing 22: Mobile Things

Thinking about the subject of apps I realized that I don't use any apps in my work life. I'm always in front of a pc and the nearest work-related app I can think of is LinkedIn - and I only use that for private career purposes.

My colleagues at the public library, where I work, teach different apps to our users - especially the e-lending apps providing books, magazines, films and music. With Zinio as the only exception they are all Danish solutions and hence not very interesting for others to read about.


I've had a look at Gum - A social network of things and the idea of using the app in a library context is great. Reader to reader recommendations are always popular. In my home I couldn't find any product with a barcode that had been scanned and commented on - not even a can of a popular soft drink :-)

I know the beacon technology and - middle aged as I am - I am a bit ambivalent. Fundamentally I don't like being disturbed by push messages all the time where ever I go. But on the other hand if I was notified about something I would really like to have known about and otherwise would have missed, that might of course be nice. But that's the classic dilemma with information technology: getting just the right amount of relevant information at any time.