Please view this as a slideshow as there are pictures on top of pictures on top of words.

A Quick History Lesson

• 2006- Helene Blowers (Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County) comes up with the first 23 Things program for her staff. It goes viral. See her 2012 reflection on it.

• 2008- Ellen Forsyth and Mylee Joseph launch the NSW Public Library Learning 2.0 version of the course. (over 1,000 participants)

• 2009- Kate gets involved with running a 14 Things program at Murdoch with Kathryn Greenhill where she is working and contracts the informal learning virus.

• 2012- Jan Holmquist develops a 23 mobile things program for his workplace Guldborgsund-bibliotekerene (in Danish) and talks to Michael Stephens and Mylee Joseph about adapting it to English.

A Quick History Lesson

• 2013- The adaption is included in the SLNSW’s Innovation Project and the website is launched via Tame the Web on 8th April. The whole program is shared under a CC Licence.

• 2013- Kate and Abigail get together over a twitter conversation and decide to create a ANZ version which soon spirals into a 6 month, interactive, global phenomenon.

• 2013/4- Remix’s are launched all over the world including a version in German, Russian, Norwegian, a Dutch Music Version and coming in 2014, a French version.

By the Numbers…

• 23 Things• 775 Participants• 8 Countries (All but 15 from Australia and New Zealand)• 50/50 split (almost) between new professionals and

non-new professionals. All sectors represented. • 2 Co-ordinators: but help from 2 twitter posters and 25

volunteers & mentors who did weekly feature and wrap-up blog posts.

• 6 months duration (23 weeks + 4 catch-up/break weeks)

• 29 Weekly Emails Sent (including weeks 0 and 28)

By the Numbers…

• 5 Twitter Chats, 4 Google Hangouts• 5 Social Media Platforms- Blog, Twitter,

Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, • 240 Blog Subscribers, over 35,500 views from

77 posts• 589 Twitter Followers• 335 Facebook Followers• 1 LIANZA Paper:

Wandering Wirelessly Over the Ditch

What are the 23 Mobile Things?

•The Things

What does this mean?

• For

and the Library?

• Funding Future Ready• Radical Learning Project• Staff Development• Library Business Plan 2014

Strategic DirectionsBy Dorota

Lets break it down….

The 23 Mobile Things apply to:

STUDENTS RESEARCHERS

THE REST OF US

How Can Students Use the Things?

Data GatheringAnd Sharing

Community Building

Communication

Learning and Educational Tools

How Can Students Use the Things?

• Data gathering and Information Sharing– Twitter (crowdsourcing information, #phdchat) – Instagram – Social reading– Augmented reality– Pinterest

How Can Students Use the Things?

• Data gathering and Information Sharing– Tumblr– Dropbox – voice recording – Evernote – eBooks– digital storytelling

• Community building – Twitter– Facebook– Group Pinterest boards– Google hangouts

How Can Students Use the Things?

How Can Students Use the Things?

• Communication – Twitter – Instagram– Facebook – Maps (Check-In)– Google hangouts – Evernote (group pages)

How Can Students Use the Things?

• Learning tools – Youtube– Webinars and Screencasts– Gamification– eBooks– Zotero– Pomodoro

What about Researchers?Data gathering

and sharing

Research promotion (profile building)

Community building (collaboration)

Current awarenessProductivity tools

• Data gathering and sharing– Same as the students but with a different

emphasis• Emphasis more on professional dissemination

– Twitter – Instagram – Social reading– Augmented reality– Pinterest

What about Researchers?

What about Researchers?

• Research promotion (profile building) – The Repository!– LinkedIn– Academia.edu– Research Gate – Twitter– Blogs

What about Researchers?

• Community building (collaboration) – Twitter– Google hangouts– Curation tools– Google Drive– Dropbox – Zotero

What about Researchers?

• Productivity tools – Pomodoro – Remember the milk– Google drive– Ebooks– pdf annotation– Webmail

What about Researchers?

• Current awareness – rss (feedly)– flipboard – Twitter

And for the rest of us …

Communication

Service &Advice

ProfessionalNetworking

Day to Day Functions Current Awareness

Fun!

And for the rest of us …

Thankyou

• Any questions?• Tweet me! @katejf• Email me! K.freedman@latrobe.edu.au• This will be on unite (internal) and slideshare*

*link to come