#16 Wikis

I am a big fan of Wikis. My introduction to them was via Wikipedia. It's so up-to-date & is usually edited by people who are passionate about the subject. Sure it can have it's drawbacks. My bookgroup uses a wiki which has saved heaps of time & effort, & reduced the number of emails we used to send back and forth to each other. It also means if you are interstate at the time of the meeting, you still get to put your opinion across. I hear some companies are using a work wiki to keep staff up-to-date on latest projects, and to allow several people to work on a document at the same time.

#14 Technorati

Technorati is not my cup of tea. The advanced search option was preferable. Tags.. well they are quite a fickle thing. It really depends on who uses them and how, what kind of a result you ultimately get.

#13 Del.icio.us

This would be great tool for the reference desk computer.

#12 Rollyo

I can't really see this being of much use to me unless I had a very specific area of interest, about which I wanted to access new information regularly. I've created one, so at least that's ticked off.

#11 LibraryThing

Now this is a site I really like - can't wait to play & explore it more. This is a site I will continue to use once this Web 2.0 course is over.

#7 Technology

Finding my way around the web is interesting, but as with all technology, it's great when it works. Formatting my posts proved to be more difficult than I thought it would be. Attempting to find a solid space of time to devote to playing around with the blog between desk shifts was/is the most difficult, and I know I am not alone in this.

#9 Finding Feeds

I wasn't finding the RSS feeds that exciting, particularly the library-related ones. That's why I chose to add a feed to The New Yorker daily cartoons. Perhaps the RSS feeds would be of more interest in an academic library...