MTOAS - Thing 24

MTOAS, in case you're wondering, is my acronym for More Things on a Stick. I thought I'd use that plus "Thing #" when posting about the various things, rather than typing out that title every time. Call it lazy or call it indicative of my profession - we librarians LOVE acronyms. ILL, OCLC, OPAC, ILS, and so on we truly revel in using acronyms to have discussions.

So, Thing 24 of MTOAS asks us to refresh our blog. OK, I've brought it back to life, change some colors, and updated my profile a bit. I like my avatar so it's staying, but I may add some photos just because. I haven't kept up with this blog as I wanted to (good intentions and all) but will keep trying. I had a friend from high school and college tell me he'd read my blog previously so that is some motivation. Plus, one of the library directors from our region called me last week looking for some motivation to do MTOAS, so I figured I'd use that opportunity to get motivated.

I like the idea of blogging but always had the question in my mind of "what do I say on a blog." Well, I'm moving past that and will do many different things on here. I'll blog about MTOAS, library stuff, direct people to interesting things I found, and maybe sometimes just vent. If people want to read it, great. If not, no problem. I'm not looking to hand out advice, be an expert in anything, but want a place to just talk about things.

I'm very bad at following blogs - I've used feed readers that I quickly forget to check. I'm going to keep trying but I need to make a plan as to what I really want to follow. I guess I haven't found anything at this point that motivates me enough to follow it. I also don't comment much, although that may change with using Twitter (I comment sporadically on tweets) and Facebook, which is ALL about the comment.

Feel free to comment on my blog anytime about anything, even if it has nothing to do with the post. All I ask is that you be courteous. More later...

More Things on A Stick - Reviving this blog

Yes, this blog does still exist. I noticed that the only thing that has been updating on this thing is from Twitter. However, I'm motivated again to keep up blogging by joining the More Things on a Stick program for MN library staff. Maybe I'll actually finish this program, even though I have started using some of the things from the 23 Things on a Stick program that was the predecessor to More Things. Well, here goes nothing!