Playing with Wikis

I liki Wiki 2. As I played with the learn and play wiki, I realized how much information was there. I loved reading all the CML favorites. When reading that wiki, I learned a lot about my fellow staff members. After the 23 things are done, I would like to see a link on CMLsi to the learn & play wiki and we continue to post and learn more about our fellow staff.

Wiki

I liki Wiki!! I see potential here. As i was looking trough some of the articles, I saw a library use it for their adult summer reading club. Wouldn't that be interesting? I agree with several people, this would be a good readers' advisory tool, especially if each branch had their own blog and each staff member from that branch could update as needed.

Also, personally, I would use it to plan a family reunion, a girls weekend or a get together.

Web 2.0

When I first started to read the blog about Web 2.0, I was thinking what in the world is this about. After reading some of the posts on the OCLC newsletter, I thought, this is what i had been thinking. In regards to the article "Away from the Icebergs," I think CML has already seen the iceberg and has steered its way past. I think our webpage is wonderful. We can download books, we have ILL, able to reserve any book in the sytem and able to talk to a librarian 24/7 just shows how CML is ahead of the game.

The second point of the article, Reliance on user education, really stood out to me. In most of our branches we staff for technology hours, but I believe we could do more in technology training for curtomers. I know this is on our tactical plan, so I hope we really get involved with the comunity and help people learn to use the technology that is out there.

Del.icio.us

I thought the getting started video was informative. I really don't see the point of del.icio.us.

Twitter

Well, I am not sure I would use Twitter. I am not a person that is on the computer regularly. I found a few people to follow because they seemed interesting. I might use twitter if my family was not close and I did not talk to them everyday.

Library Thing

I liked searching in Library Thing. I thought it was difficult putting into my blog. With help from Ronda, I was able to finally add the Library Thing. I also searched through Shelfari. I like Shelfari more than Library Thing. I liked the option of picking my shelf.