Final blog

11 blogs and 19 things - at first I thought I was well adrift but when I actually read what I had written, everything was covered.
So how was it for me?  Fun, nicely paced, just about the right amount to do each week.
Has my attitude changed since my first blog?  No - well you did ask...
Best Thing was Images because it was useful knowledge, worst was Protopage because I knew I was not a fan of start pages.
Use at work - images, CiteULike (hadn't realised free packages are so good now) and meet-o-matic
Feelings now it has finished - looking forward to Christmas, very busy so relieved I have completed it.
Improvements - nothing really, it was very well organised and see my positive comments above - a pity that the limitations of the NHS restricted 'Things' we could do.  A big thank you to all who wrote Things - I hope that proved to be a useful CPD exercise for them.

CiteULike

This was fun - free reference management software has come a long way since I last looked at it (many years ago).  Nothing is without its irritations of course and the first one I encountered was that the username PaulineBlagden was already taken. Scary thought, a namesake.  After that things went quite well.  As I was doing this at home, I put in terms that interested me.  The first 'Roman' turned up some fascinating stuff - fairly random though - maybe it was too general a term.  Then I tried Norman Sicily, hoping for articles about Roger etc but most of the results were about genetics or the mafia.
Then I tried importing stuff from Google Scholar - one worked and the other didn't.
At this point I gave up before I identified too many articles which I would really love to read but don't have time to.

My Librarything

You are going to find these books really boring unless you are interested in Roman archaeology but I went to Pompeii this summer and was really glad I did some reading beforehand.
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?offset=0&view=paulinblagden&collection=290445&shelf=shelf

Librarything

I loved this and am wondering whether to use it as a sort of wish list, all the books that I would like to read - might get rather long and therefore depressing though.  For the purposes of 19 things, I just used it to list some books that I have read this year - more than one so I count that a success.  I do like the way it shows the covers, much prettier than all the bibliographic data.

Meet-o-matic confession time

I did not exactly follow instructions here - sounds really sad but I did not actually want to set up a meeting so what I did was to send messages to myself using my various email addresses.  This meant I could work through all the various stages of the process without having to turn up.  It was very easy to use and definitely more efficient than having emails flying back and forth to try to find a date when everyone is free.

My blogging history

When I created a blog for 19 Things, I was amazed to discover that I had created blogs years ago, and my profile says that I have been a blogger since July 2003 - obviously not a very dedicated one since I had no recollection of doing so.

I am so glad that we have had such excellent instructions for the various tasks.  I shall save them all for future reference.

The most useful bit for me has been about Creative Commons - important to get that right.
Wordle was most fun, really easy to do,  and makes an impact if not over-used.

7 more things to go and then I guess it will be nearly Christmas!

Just a thought about RSS feeds

Some of my favourite sites eg Current Archaeology do not have RSS feeds but invite me to keep in touch using social media - definitely more attractive.