MyConfusion

I'm not really confused about MySpace or FaceBook. I've had some collateral experience with it, if only through anecdotes and occasional sightings of my daughter's FB account. (She'll talk about it but won't really let me look at it.) I understand how they are used, and how compelling (and addicting) they would be.

What I'm confused about it why anyone would use this in the library world. The one's that we looked at for examples were boring and outdated. They did not seem useful. If a teen or young adult went to any of them, they would never return. They look like I would look if I tried to talk in teen- or black-speak. Really stupid. I cannot imagine a teen or young adult paying any attention to a library blog whilst they are doing what they are doing on FB or MS.

Having said that, I can see a group of librarians with the same interests sharing articles, and discussions about articles and networking with each other on these things.

Did I just miss the good ones? How does everyone else feel about them?

Milking

While I can see the efficacy of having a task manager online, Remember the Milk isn't doing it for me. It doesn't seem to be a very intuitive, well organized web site. Or is it just me? I rate a web site as useful and excellent if I can get it to work. Not an easy 'award' to give to a web site, since I can be thick when it comes to learning web 2.0, but there are things out there (blogspot for one) that I can figure out.

My complaints:

• it seems like each time I go into it, it looks different...if I login, it has one list, if I don't there's another.
• it includes the signature from your email as part of the message (many of us had this happen with our list additions)
• when I tried to delete my signature, I couldn't figure it out (though a colleague helped me and I cleaned up my and other's mistakes.)
• I can't figure out how to organize it - some listings have dates on them, some don't.
• Too big of a learning curve on this one.

I'd like to try Jott, but my cell phone doesn't work at my desk. Makes me wonder what kind of electronic field I'm sitting in every day...?

Any other task managers out there that are easier to learn and more intuitive than Milk?

Milking

While I can see the efficacy of having a task manager online, Remember the Milk isn't doing it for me. It doesn't seem to be a very intuitive, well organized web site. Or is it just me? I rate a web site as useful and excellent if I can get it to work. Not an easy 'award' to give to a web site, since I can be thick when it comes to learning web 2.0, but there are things out there (blogspot for one) that I can figure out.

My complaints:

• it seems like each time I go into it, it looks different...if I login, it has one list, if I don't there's another.
• it includes the signature from your email as part of the message (many of us had this happen with our list additions)
• when I tried to delete my signature, I couldn't figure it out (though a colleague helped me and I cleaned up my and other's mistakes.)
• I can't figure out how to organize it - some listings have dates on them, some don't.
• Too big of a learning curve on this one.

I'd like to try Jott, but my cell phone doesn't work at my desk. Makes me wonder what kind of electronic field I'm sitting in every day...?

Any other task managers out there that are easier to learn and more intuitive than Milk?