Taking the Our 23 Web 2.0 Things Challenge has opened my eyes to a myriad of possibilities, both personal and professional. This is an exciting time to work in the library field. As I embark on this challenge, it was surprising to learn how much information in this area I had already picked up.
#1 reading the challenge, this FAQ is completed, I am still trying to get registered for an InfoPeople Web 2.0 event. Although I did attend the Generation Tech Workshop by Santiago Library System.
#2 creating and posting a blog will be completed with this.
#6 looking at library websites Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County was a clean crisp design. The RSS feeds make the site very navigable and easy to use. Ann Arbor District Library was a very different website. It has interesting use of blogs, yet everything that you would expect to see on a library website was there. Denver Public Library Podcasts is very different. Podcasts are entirely new to me. This use of them reminds me of the old dial-a-story in the 1970's. Podcasts could be a updated version of dial-a-story and would allow children to have a technological connect to the library at home. I can see this would be a great way to outreach children's programing, particularly Storytime and after school programs. What Denver did for children Seattle Public Library has done for teens with MySpace library connection. I really liked the use of book reviews for teens. We have a Mother/Daughter Book Group at Mesa Verde. Members of the group could post reviews of the books they read.
#16 learning about wikis is completed. I posted a wiki to the Literary Orange website, Orange Peel at http://libraryorangepeel.wetpaint.com/. Literary Orange is the annual author festival of Orange County Public Library. I posted the information about the C-Span Book TV Bus.
