The Twenty-third thing!

Hello there

This is the final "Thing" I have to complete and therefore my final post in which I'd like to reflect on my progress over the last few months.

I found following this online journey (cyber walkies if you will - my last dog related pun I promise!) to be generally interesting and worthwhile. I enjoyed discovering new sites/tools and finding out more about others I only had a glancing knowledge of. I also liked the impetus to create and maintain this blog. I'm not sure if I will create one as a civilian, but it's been good to try it out. It's also quite satisfying to be able to read back through my blog and experience the accumulation of information and opinions (and puns - again sorry).

It's also been interesting to complete an online course through work. Bad in that it took up extra time I didn't have, and good that it encouraged colleagues across departments to share information on common (often shakey) ground and generally bond a little more. The council firewalls were my biggest frustration. In the building I work in there isn't the same access to (un-blocked) learn.nets (public computer pods) as in the library branches, and I don't currently have internet access from home. One of my colleagues commented that because she wasn't experienced on the internet that when she came to a dead end she didn't know if it was something she'd done wrong, or just a council block.

I'm not sure how this collection of e-experiences has specifically benefited me in my professional life. Possibly just with an increased confidence in negotiating the current generation of interweb sites/tools.

I will now leave you with a final photo of my handsome doggie persona - Angus - Adieu! Woof!