Thing #17

I added my blog to the the favorites wiki.

A "tips"and "mentoring" wiki would be great way to provide information to new (and not so new) librarians and staff. I might use this as a tool to create a collaborative document with other team members.

Thing #16

I looked at several examples of wikis and saw a variety of ways that they are used. It appears that any shared information or collaborative writing endeavor can be "wikified." The applications that interest me most are library instruction wikis and reference wikis.

Thing #15

To better bibliographic services . . .

This is a great direction for Library 2.0. It expands both the pool of resources and the means to deliver information. It simplifies and unifies what is generally seen as complicated and segmented.

Thing #14

The turtle will continue to drag itself towards the finish line.

I did some exploring in Technorati. It's overwhelming. There's so much. It's also scary - - how people write all sorts of personal stuff in language that one might not particularly care for. Of course, there are good interesting posts too.

Tags certainly help to keep the posts you get to within topics you are interested in. However, an item could be assigned an unlimited variation in tags by different taggers, not necessarily what you yourself would use.

Thing #13

I read the "23 Things" information on Del.icio.us and viewed the video tutorial. I explored the different links and the Learning 2.0 resources. I noted the tags, the number of users who saved the site and the time elapsed or date when the site was saved by someone. This gives an indication of how "popular" a site is. The features that interest me are tagging and the ability to access my bookmarks from any computer. The tags definitely would be very useful as keywords in doing research.

Thing #12

I kept rolling round and round with Rollyo. For some reason it was difficult for me. After I had created some searchrolls, I needed to delete one. I tried the links to EDIT and MANAGE . . . but there is no delete button anywhere that I could see, nor any other means that I could figure out. I kept circling around.

Here's the link to my searchrolls: http://www.rollyo.com/rainbow
I'm trying to get rid of that first Gardening Fun on the list; the one with the "By: 321321321."

Can someone give me a definitive answer on how to do it? Thank you very much.

Thing #11

For the Web 2.0 awards exercise I explored Wayfaring, a mapping tool. I found maps showing favorite spots, homes, etc. Some users have created travelogues, showing their route plus videos or pictures of their trip.

For library-related applications this can be used in mapping events, library locations, users, conference locations, etc. If the PLA Symposium locations would be mapped out, all the markers would be in Chicago, except now San Jose would be included in the map and show one marker. As the Symposium gets held in other places, markers would be added showing those locations.