Thing 23

Well, I must start off by making two statements: I was so very unaware (to my shame!) of all these ways one could access or create information. And second, I was pleasantly surprised that I could work with them without too much trial and error! However, it's important to note that I had LOTS of help, so thank you to the great staff here for all their (patient) help.
I now feel much more confident in talking about, and using, such things as RSS feeds, YouTube, wikis, Flickr, and podcasts, just to name a few. Certainly I can trot out the well-worn phrase, "learning is a never-ending process" (or words to that effect). I was a bit skeptical and wary of learning all this, but thank goodness I just got to it, and took things one "thing" at a time, and well, had the mindset of having fun!
What was so pleasant to see was all the cooperation among the staff; the teamwork was so wonderful to see. And, wow, don't we need that nowadays, with all this dog-eat-dog, "get out of my way or I'll step on you" attitude that's way too prevalent in the world. And, I think, too, that knowing about, and working with, these sites, is important for practical, work-related reasons, not simply as "play" sites.
I would say, if there was an unexpected outcome of all this for me, it is that so much out there is more or less a community effort, with a person being able to add or subtract to them. And, as I have stated, in my posts, on more than one occasion, there are positives as well as negatives to this. The fluidity of the information on some of these sites makes you realize that, just because it's online, that doesn't mean it's the gospel truth.
So, my overall impressions of these exercises are very positive, for all the reasons stated above, and I would certainly want to participate in any future discovery programs.