Thing 28: personalized home page

I have a google home page, chosen because I have a gmail account, google calendar and use blogger already. Each of those is a gadget on my page, along with a to-do list, weather, and a collection of reference and news options. I also have a reader to aggregate blogs. I just added a twitter gadget to go directly to twitter and have it open in the home page.
It does make it easy to collect a variety of useful sites and make them easily accessible. I also personalized it with a theme at the top of the page so I can look at a different picture each time I go to the page!

Thing 27: Twitter

Signed up for Twitter at https://twitter.com/ and am following 11 people. Hibbing Library uses it for daily updates on events, internet outages etc. which seems like it would be useful if people follow a library's tweets! I also added the twitter button to my blog. My user name is marciaanderson

Thing 26: Ning

I joined Ning, and the NCLC subgroup, and posted a comment. I also added the 23 things Ning badge to my blog. I am already a member of another Ning group started by Maggie Montgomery of KAXE radio on local foods. http://eatlocally.ning.com/
Ning is a great way to socialize around a specific topic and for a small group.

Thing 25: Blogger toolbox

I added some fun things, including: a "Contact Me" which gives an alias contact email to avoid spam; a "Subscribe" button to allow subscriptions to the blog; a box to use for searching the blog; and a "labels" list to collect all the labels. Now if I just remember to label each post I'll be fine!

I wonder, as I look at tag clouds, labels and other labelling and sorting options, about the usefulness of a controlled vocabulary to make things easier to find. Do I add labels, tags or subject headings?