#18

The applications available are nifty. Zoho Writer is both sophisticated and easy to use to create a document - which I did. Was terribly inventive and just copied a couple of paragraphs of Madeleine Say's article in the recent slvNews. But my attempts to publish the document to my blog were frustrated - it persisted in saying that my username and/or password were not recognized. In exploring Zoho Writer I also thought that some of the templates they offer would be very useful.

#17 PBWiki

Have looked through the Discovery Resources for the exercise - the PBWiki Tips look very useful. We recently went travelling with a group of friends and I was interested that one application for a wiki was planning a trip - this could work well. Another application that was mentioned was to manage your shopping lists - doesn't appeal to me at all. Looked around the Learning2.0 Favourites Wiki - and added to the list of favourite restaurants and to the list of favourite blogs.

#16 Wikis

I thought that the Book Lovers Wiki and the SJCPL Subject Guides were confident, elegant, useful examples of library wikis. The Book Lovers Wiki would work well with the next iteration of the Summer Reading Challenge that the Library ran last summer with terrific assistance from, and participation of, public libraries. The capacity of wikis as internal tools - replacing training manuals, as communal space for project teams etc - is significant and AID is using the technology for the former purpose. The most challenging applications for us might be in the 'annotating the catalogue' and 'creating community wiki' areas. Maybe a wiki for the City of Literature if that comes off?

The discipline or challenge for us is to pick one or two public applications that will serve us strategically and to support them well.

#15 Library2.0 and Web2.0

The five perspectives in the eOCLC Next Space Newsletter were thought provoking (although I disagree with Wendy Schultz when she categorises the library at Alexandria as Library 1.0 - I think the evidence, meagre though it is, points to it being library as Experience ie her 4.0 library).

The Web2.0 principles of simplicity and self service are important opportunities for providing improved services to more people. The principles of user participation and collective intelligence have immense potential - a radical rethink of what we've done traditionally and narrowly with volunteers.

Web2.0 has much to offer slv21 given that the aim of slv21 is to connect users with the Library and its services, collection and resources whenever they need them from wherever they are.

#14 Technorati

The keyword search for Learning 2.0 in blog posts yielded 22,442 results and in blogs resulted in 536 found. Not only was there a discrepancy in results but the link between the posts and Learning 2.0 was tenuous in many of those I opened. Was diverted by the popular blogs (lifehacker, for example) and popular searches (who can go past Paris Hilton?). Read about tagging posts but am not sure I've mastered this.

#13 Tagging, folksonomies and the rest

Using the PLCMCL2 account was an interesting exercise - Del.icio.us would be very useful if you quickly found the people whose tags you want to 'stalk' because you admire their work and research. Otherwise you can swim around in quite a morass. I could see it working well as a tool for relatively homogenous groups of readers/patrons, for example, in the Genealogy Reading Room where all can have access and contribute. I decided not to create my own account - I think I need to explore it further to see if I become a convert.

#8 RSS and newsreader

This could become my life's work - there are an infinite number of RSS feeds it would fascinating to receive. Have set up a Bloglines account, have selected/subscribed to ten newsfeeds and I have tried to find and share my public Bloglines URL. However, no matter which page I viewed I could not find a share tab that looks like the one in the instructions for #8. Have fiddled around and imported the URL below but who knows to what it will link.

Enjoyed the exercise and can think of how to use it personally. From an institutional perspective it could be very useful to push information out.