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Thank you all for participating. We know you made a big commitment of time and energy to this project.

We truly appreciate all the comments that recognize the big task of getting 23 Things On a Stick up and running and maintaining it for the duration. It was worth every hour, every frustration, and every broken link to bring such a program to Minnesota's library staff who then enthusiastically embraced the program and made it a phenomenon.

Once the names are drawn for the big prizes on April 29, everyone on this list will get an announcement with the list of winners.

Last week's News had a list of the fabulous prizes!

Each Multitype has plans for how the finishers' incentives will be distributed. Watch for separate announcements about that from your Multitype region.

Lots of Finishers! Congratulations!
This is the completion incentive--cool!
The bad weather that caused some school cancellations and the desire to spend the weekend cosied up to your computers gave many people a chance to push on to the finish!

Congratulations to all who finished and blogged about the 23. Here is the
Think you should be on the list? If you did not do the evaluation, we don't have a record of your completion. There are a few mysterious finishers who did the evaluation, but did not put email, blog name, or other identifier, so, who are you?

Let us know before April 29 if you think you should be on the list. minn23@gmail.com

Blogger

* Blogger has added Blogger in Draft is a version of Blogger with experimental features in try-out before they are published for all Bloggers. The Blogger in Draft blog is the place for the latest news on new features. The adventurous among you can log into Blogger at draft.blogger.com instead of www.blogger.com. The blueprint logo shows you're in the right place. Try out the features and let us know how they work. Chances are, we will add a Thing about the best ones in More On a Stick.

Flickr

* Flickr has added video to its site. Flickr Pro (paid subscription) users can upload short 90 second videos. Not everyone is happy about this new feature!
* A lot of "the cool kids" at MOO cards as their business/contact cards. These small (1"x3") photo cards use your Flickr (or other photo site that cooperates with MOO) to produce 100 cards for $19.99+shipping. Nice quality and very fun. MOO prints other paper stuff, too. I have used WinkFlash for printing things. I ordered postcards with this photo--nice quality and they came in 3 days.
* If you plan to use Flickr regularly, consider downloading the Flickr Uploader. It makes the job quick and easy.

Bloglines
Here are new features for Bloglines. Subscribe to the RSS feed to keep up.

Minitex Webinar

Michelle Jacobs, Emerging Technologies and Web Coordinator at UCLA, discusses and presents various Web 2.0 tools and how they can be used to enhance current collections and services. Technologies will range from learning how to keep track of new tech trends to easy to download applications, to actual application design.

* Monday, May 5 - 3:00-4:00 PM
* Tuesday, May 6 - 2:00-3:00 PM
* Friday, May 9 - 1:00-2:00 PM

Google
# Keeping up with Google changes and features is a fulltime job. For example, did you notice the GoogleDocs Revisions tab disappeared? You now go to the File menu--Revisions to track the changes to your document. The Save tab has re-appeared after many complaints from users. There are a bunch of other Official Google Blog YouTube Blog
Second Life
Rumor has it that one of the multitype directors is really into Second Life as a result of 23 Things.

* College of DuPage had a recent teleconference Trends, Fads or Folly: Spotting the Library Trends That Really Matter with a lot of info about Second Life, among other topics. Check it out!
* Here's the ELM Productivity Tools
This Thing generated a lot of comments--and frustrations. YouTube
Everyone is getting into the act! Check out the brand new are all those ALA acronyms
* 8 videos for National Library Week 2008. Some samples (Fun, but that intro gets old if you watch all 8 in a row! Just a warning.):
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And, just because it's fun, this local library video pointed out by :

* If you need inspiration to make your own video, watch the 2007 & 2008 winners of InfoTubey contest. Clever, fun, & informative.