Online Introductions
April 15th, 2008 | Published in Scherer Cybrarian, tools | 1 Comment
I’ve been thinking. I see new site introductions and new online tools and new services every day. And, I find sites and people and services that are just new to me. More than one a day is fascinating. More than one a day grabs my attention.
But what will stick? How good does it really have to be for me (or you) to add it to the daily list of things to read, things to do, things to use?
Pretty darn good, I say.
And here’s why. (And I’ll speak for myself here, but I bet you can relate.)
I am full. I use a slew of wonderful tools. I am attached to the blogs I read. I use some fabulous sites that have served and continue to serve me well. And I have no time left unless I quit my job.
So how good does a new site or tool need to be? Good enough for me to dump a current one (so it has to be a ton better or else why learn something new?) or so amazing that I can’t live without it.
It used to be that a ‘good’ site had room in my world. No longer.
What about you?
I guess I’m a little bit different. I’m a tinkerer – never satisfied. I do find myself spending increasingly more and more time using social media and the Internet in my job, but new tools come along all the time that are designed to make doing all these things more efficient.
Case in point, iGoogle. Like Google needs any more ringing endorsements for their product, but I have been using iGoogle more and more to keep me organized. I have a Twitter gadget, a CNN gadget, a Google Calendar gadget and a Google reader gadget. Between these, I can see a synopsis of most of the things I like to read/look at in one page. Just today I added a bookmarks Gadget so that I can access all of my necessary sites remotely (since it’s Web based).
So yes, things do have to be impressive for me to keep, even though I’ll try most anything. But advances in technological design help me to process things efficiently enough to offset.
Make sense?