We had a candidate in for our Librarian in Residence program yesterday who was heavily into social sites and instruction. I can see how seamlessly she thinks of social networking in day-to-day life. The one thing she said that struck me most was, as she pulled up the Elluminate site she was using for her presentation, she asked a rhetorical question: Does this application interface make you nervous or does it make you want to try out all the buttons? Her point was that in order to be able to provide flexible, supportive services to our clientele, we really need to be comfortable learning new applications with the ability to teach them on the fly. She had a connection to a WOW site that had the following quote at the top of the page: Live as though you were going to die today. Learn as though you were going to live forever. It was attributed to Gandhi, and I had never seen that one before. I love the message of lifelong learning that it provided. I felt energized after her presentation, and I usually do after a quick immersion in people who are using new/old technologies to stay abreast and informed. I went out this morning and pulled down yet another Twitter app for my BlackBerry with hopes that it will not be a resource drain--although it did fill my memory card up with its ginormity.