I have been a member of Facebook for a good few years now and find it helps me keep up with friends and family who I don't see on a regular basis. What I like about it is probably what everyone else hates - I like hearing about the minutiae of my friends lives because that's the stuff that often gets forgotten in a phone call or email. I could do without Farmville though.

The Sainsbury Library has had a Facebook page for around 6 months now and we have a modest number of fans - the current count is 66. For me the main reason for setting up the page was that prior to this all information about the library was hosted on the Saïd Business School intranet which meant that we had no public presence on the web other than the basic information provided on the OULS and School websites. Thankfully this is no longer the case and we have a much better presence on the newly designed Saïd Business School website.

I have been reading a lot of posts by 23 Things participants that can't get over the idea that social media profiles for libraries come hand in hand with duplication of content and effort. I want to dispel this myth....

I really don't think it matters if content is duplicated across multiple sites. The first point of contact with your library is not necessarily going to be the same for everyone - some users might pitch up on your doorstep, some might land on your website, others might find you via a profile on Facebook or Twitter - as a result the library needs to provide at least the same basic information everywhere.

As for duplication of effort, it is so easy these days to connect different social media accounts so that you can post one update that will then be posted on all of your profiles. This is made even more easy with the use of RSS feeds - a prime example of this in practice is from our very own Vere Harmsworth Library who use their blog to feed information to their website and Facebook and Twitter profiles.

Wow, I never knew I felt so strongly about Facebook. This leaves me only just enough breath to say that I have also joined LinkedIn and have created what is at present a very basic profile. I do plan to explore this further at a later date and add a bit more meat to the bones.

When I was a kid I didn't read that much I was much happier listening to story tapes and when I listen to the radio I would much rather hear spoken word rather than music - these are the two main reasons why I love podcasts. I started listening to podcasts when I worked on the Oxford Digitisation Project. One of my main tasks was surveying the collections across Oxford's libraries to see what could be digitised; it was a very repetitive and mundane task and podcasts were the only thing that kept me sane.

The podcasts I am currently listening to are

• Filmspotting
• Friday Night Comedy
• In Our Time
• The Moth

Now what about YouTube. I like YouTube but I'm not the kind of person who can spend hours searching for videos on it. I tend to only go to it when someone shares a link with me and more often than not I find the videos I watch are information related. Whilst on holiday recently I spent an evening sitting in the hotel bar observing a group of businessmen huddled around a laptop watching videos of car crashes on YouTube - I don't understand the appeal.

For thing 12 I signed up to a couple of YouTube channels. One of them was the Common Craft channel. If you've not heard of Common Craft's In Plain English series then I'd thoroughly recommend you check it out. Here's their video on Twitter to get you in the mood for next week's things...

I have been using delicious now for nearly a year. I can't claim that I go back to it regularly to find things but I find it reassuring to know that I have some links to helpful tools and useful articles there in case I need them someday. I think the ones I go back for the most are those for web design, especially when I'm trying to find a funky colour to use.

The only way to manage your links in delicious is to use tags. It is so important to be consistent so I really like that you get recommendations from your own set of tags when you save a new link.

It was my job recently to move all of the library's links to free resources on the web over to delicious. Prior to this we had kept them on a page on our intranet but this was so unwieldy and made adding a new link extremely time consuming. The ability to tag the bookmarks makes it so easy to group like items and hopefully for our users to quickly and easily locate links of interest to them.

Before now I haven't ever used the network feature of delicious. For thing 10 I added two of my fellow 23 things team members. I find it odd that there's not a way to search for friends/colleagues on there by email address. Unless I've missed something adding people to your network relies on you knowing their username.

I took this photo of one of the stone heads outside the Sheldonian Theatre and had some fun with the effects in Picnik.

This is my favourite. At first I thought it made it look like he was shouting, but then I wondered if he might be sneezing!

I've been using Flickr for a few years now but have only recently upgraded to a Pro account which allows me extra functionality in terms of the organisation of my photos into sets and collections. It also means I have no monthly limit on my uploads. I used to upload all my photos to Facebook for my friends to see but my frustration with their uploader drove me to explore Flickr. Their desktop uploader is awesome and it's so easy to edit photos in batches on Flickr that really once you've started using it there's no going back.

This year I have taken on the 365 photos project. So far it's going well - I think I've only missed one day. Through this project I've started using the social features of Flickr much more to comment, tag and even add notes to highlight specific details in a picture.

Since moving to a Mac at the end of last year I have been editing my photos much more. iPhoto makes is really easy to adjust the exposure and tweak colours to add an extra clarity to your photos. Today I had a play with Picnik. I will post the results separately to make use of Flickr's excellent "Blog this" feature.