I did it! Hurrah!!

Is there a special reward for doing this in record time (8 1/2 hours for all 23 things)?

I actually wish I had been able to spend more time on each "thing" - and will certainly revisit my favorites again soon. It has been very enlightening and an excellent exercise to do as a library-wide project. I do think this needs to be on-going, albeit in smaller bites and with the main focus on things we can apply directly to our library service.

My favorites were the "fun" sites, such as YouTube, Flickr, image generators, and LibraryThing.

Thank you, Kathleen, for your unflappability and patience with all our little "problems" throughout this exercise!

Web 2.0 Fun Sites

The first site I explored was:

http://www.onesentence.org/

The whole premise of the site is to write a story in one sentence - the entries were for the most part surprisingly literate, thought-provoking, and even touching. A neat idea.

Another site I explored was:

http://www.lulu.com/

This is a site for self-publishing and marketing of writing, art, photos, etc. Perhaps we could get all our award-winning chili recipes together and publish a fabulous cookbook? Looks very professional and easy to do.

Zoho - Yippee!

This looks like a very user-friendly word processor (take note, Vista Word!). Everything you want clearly and attractively presented - my kind of tool! (Unfortunately, the smily face I put at the end of this did not transfer over to this blog).

I also like the idea of having access to your documents from anywhere you may need them and the option of sharing them.

Library 2.0

New World of Librarianship article:

I just added an interesting list of new words to my vocabulary:
techno-lust, techno-worship, digital natives, technohustle, knowledge spa ... - it's a brave new world, all right! Two things are essential in wading through this overwhelming avalanche of technological advances: 1) a focus on our own customers and what they want and need, and 2) continuous designated staff time to develop local experts that other staff can turn to.

Better Bibliographic Services article:

Single metadata creation is definitely the way to go for sharing records among publishers, vendors, and libraries - there is way to much duplication of effort going on right now. WorldCat is a great start for sharing bibliographic records among libraries; it needs to be developed further to make downloading each other's records easier and more efficient.

Technocrati

When I tried the 3 ways to search the keywords "library 2.0", the winner was definitely the Blog Directory search. It presented an overview of all blogs related to the topic, all right on target. The next most useful search was the tag search, however, it takes you straight to individual blog posts, so a bit random. Least useful was the blog posts search - a lot of unrelated hits came up.

Del.icio.us

I didn't find this one all that "tasty". Perhaps my searches were too general (German news, knitting) to find anything more useful than an ordinary Google search could have found. The comments by other people were not exactly enlightening. Probably more useful for more specific searches on professional topics, though.

Rollyo

I created a file for "Author Interviews" with tags "authors" and "interviews" (very imaginative, I know). This would be one useful tool for me when I look for interviews for book club presentations. I could search my 3-4 favorite sites all at once and eliminate extraneous sources.