Why we're here

Deb and committee,

First, let me take this opportunity to thank you all for all of your hard work into getting this wonderul 2.0 experience up and running for the SLA membership. 

Second, thank you for forcing me (okay, "enticing me" may be a better phrase) to actually explore these technologies by making the whole experience easy and fun.  The pitch for spending "15-muntes a day" really made this sound doable and allowed me to face my reluctance by committing to this minimal amount of time for learning.  (Note: while I may have started with 15 minutes per day, this activity has become somewhat addictive and I'm finding that I'm spending my entire lunch hour each day on this stuff.  Not necessarily a bad thing.)

Third, have I said "thank you" yet?  Keep up the good work!

Good morning, I have a quick question about the "Keeping Track: Participant's Blogs" section of the wiki.  I've tagged my blog in del.icio.us, but it is not regularly showing up on this list.  Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not.  Have I done something wrong?  Just curious.  Not that big a deal.

Tom, I've noticed that too! I think it means to take the tagged lists on delicious with a grain of salt. But it does kind of defeat the purpose of having it there for a list of participants' blogs. :-\ I suppose I should put all the ones that show up (and are actually participants' blogs) into my reader and try to catch the others later.

I've seen this quirkiness with other blogs too that, at first, the blog was set to be a private blog and then the owner changed it to be a public blog. Even though the blog became public, seemed as though it still sometimes reverted back to a private blog.
Another option that might work is to add your blog to Technorati and then tag your blog in Technorati with sla23things tag (see http://technorati.com/blogs/tag/sla23things). I can now, for example, follow/scan Tom's blog easily in my "posts from favorites" tab.

When logging in to Confluence, I have checked the "remember me" box but it never remembers me.  Is it Confluence or is it me?  Is there some setting I could change on my browser? 

I'm enjoying 23 Things a lot.  I tend to work on it from home since many of the sites (YouTube, for example) are not accessible from our work location due to "Surf Control" restrictions.  At a meeting yesterday I used the term "vodcast" and two out of three of the IT folks in the meeting had not heard the term before.  I actually don't think I learned that in 23 Things - but I could have - but still, a nice example of the value of this initiative in keeping us current.

Nancy, the reason the "remember me" box may not be remember you each time you come to Confluence is probably a browser setting issue (i.e., Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) not an application issue (i.e., Confluence wiki).