My first post

I am completely new to blogging, tweeting, twittering, and the like. I must confess that I am a little sceptical about it all. I am pretty computer literate in some ways, to the extent of customising library software and learning a kind of programming language to do so. I handle email and all the usual office programs (Word, Excel, etc.), internet searching, etc. without trouble. I appreciate that computers can in many ways make life easier (when they are working properly - they certainly make life much harder when they go wrong, as we grow dependent), but I don't have one at home (and am glad not to), and I've never had much desire to send out 140 character news bites about myself to anyone. I don't even text - I don't own a mobile phone. I don't much like the ever-increasing instant availability culture. So ... I guess that I'm going to look at the 23 Things Cambridge from a professional point of view, to see how what it contains might increase the profile of a library. Perhaps I'll be convinced to tweet and twitter on my own account by the end of the program. We'll see.