Thing 17 PBWiki

This could be a great time saver for coordinating and communicating with two groups in which I participate. I like the easy ability to grant access to a select group of people. What's next?

Thing 16

I really loved Princeton Public Library's Book Lovers' Wiki. Now that the Discussion Group Leaders have a Blog, I would enjoy a venue for the public to write reviews of their favorites. Perhaps this could happen in conjunction with Summer Reading. Yes?

Thing 15

The article that I found really useful in thinking about Web2.0 and Library 2.0 is—

“What is Web 2.0, Design patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software” by Tim O’Reilly Published on O’Reilly http://www.oreilly.com 09/30/2005
http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

Perhaps I needed to understand Web 2.0 first before I could think about Library 2.0. I am struck by the democratization of the information/research/publication/communication world that Web 2.0 represents and all the ways in which the public, the lay person and the non-expert are enabled and encouraged to participate. One of the seven principles that distinguish Web 2.0 from Web 1.0 that O’Reilly lists is the “Harnessing [of] Collective Intelligence—The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence.” Examples of this process include wikis, blogs, Amazon customer reviews and lists, data gathered as a customer uses an application whether they intentionally contribute information or not.
The article by Michael Stephens, “Into a new world of librarianship” begins with “Librarians 2.0 plan for their users…This librarian bases all planning and proposals for services, materials and outreach on user needs and wants…This involves users from the get go in planning and launching services based on their needs.” Stephen continues to list the ways in which Librarian 2.0 involves the user in planning and decision making-a process that makes the user a trusted collaborator. I wonder how LCPL might gather and use more public input from all of the diverse communities in Loudoun County.

Thing 14 Technorati

I’ve claimed my blog and I’ve created a watchlist. That’s seems a little like an updating service or an RSS feed that you have to go to Technorati to see. I tried all the search modes—the blog directory is the most focused search or at least it returns the smallest number of hits. I really like the URL search. It’s similar to the (Science…) Citation Abstracts, for blogs instead of for article citations. That search deserves more investigation. The tag search seems to be the same search as the search box on the home page. The blog post search is most broad and hardly seems useful. I’ll use Technorati from time to time. I found a great design/creativity blog—check it out http://www.core77.com

Thing 18

Finally, here's something that I can use immediatly. I'm looking forward to introducing Zoho Writer to a committee on which I am a member. We've had to write an SOP manual and it would have been so much easier to share the work and edit the results with Zoho.

Thing 13 (I'll get to 12 later-I couldn't get it to do what I wanted)

Aw-w-w right! The old dog is willing to learn a few new tricks. Del.icio.us is OK. Looking at the Blogging Librarians Wiki and the Shifted Librarian was eye-opening. It’s not so much that I’d tell someone to use Del.icio.us as an answer to a reference question, but roaming around the tasty world would provide background that would help me find sources and leads.

Thing 11

Let's see, my garden is overgrown, there are piles of books on the floor to read, the cat hair dust bunnies are growing alarmingly and I really want to get to the gym and most of all, I want to paint pictures. There isn't time enough in the day to spend it playing cataloger.

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=windriverraven