#17 PBWiki

Managed to find this Wiki and add my blog to it. Seems pretty standard. Once you play with one wiki (we use MediaWiki with our LMS) you can pretty much handle another one.

You can find the PBWiki here

#16 The Wiki

Everyone likes to see their work published. Wiki's offer instant gratification. But besides that they are a great collaborative tool. These are really the first generation and at the moment can be a little clunky when editing but new versions will evolve and make it much easier.

How many times have you passed around a Word doc and not know which version was which, what's the latest or where to even find it on a shared drive. Wiki's solve most of these problems especially in work environments. In the next few years workplace intranets will take on this form and many major corporations are starting to use and move to this type of platform. It provides a good repository for passing on information instead of having it locked up in silo's on peoples drives.

Many people feel that wiki's are to open, not authoritative (what is?) and subject to abuse. On the flip side they have extensive logging and administrative tools to protect against many of these things. They are also extremely easy to manage.

I think further generations of wiki's will become a valuable knowledge tool.

#15 Web 2.0 and Library 2.0

So more than half way through the learning 23 things. Covered a few topics about emerging technologies and how these may or may not effect libraries. I was just reading an interesting article on Libraries and Facebook.com. Now I have never used Facebook (it's mostly a social networking site in the States for university students) but it highlights many of the issues libraries faced with a new way that students in this case get their information.

I think it would be VERY silly to think that we may know it all in library land or to ignore what is really happening out there. Doing something like this has brought to my attention many things I thought I knew everything about. What was true last month doesn't really hold anymore. There are always better, faster methods showing up for the delivery of information. Just wait until the mobile internet kicks off!

Read Stephen Abrams website from SirsiDynix and be surprised just how much is out there. Add it to your RSS feeds so that it checks for new posts each day. Get with it.

#14 Technorati and blog tagging

This site is interesting in that as content is added to blogs and other social networking sites, users can search for what is commonly being talked about and mentioned and further tag that data.

This seems to be a really good time waster but also a great source of ideas for conversation starters and those moments at dinner parties when everything dies.

Since it was the week of the release of the iPhone this was the biggest talked about topic.

#13 tagging and del.icio.us

Tried out some of these tagging things and signed up for del.icio.us

After setting the button for del.icio.us to appear with my other browser buttons I was able to start surfing the web and collecting links to add.

To go direct to the del.icio.us site follow this link.
del.icio.us

#12 Rollyo

Rollyo appears to be very like the Google Custom Search Engine (GoogleCSE) stuff that is available in the Google Labs area. It's also very much like the "Best of the web" feature available in the SirsiDynix Rooms/EPS software although not as fast or able to manipulate the data with categories etc.

The plugin below is an example of a simple search that I have created using rollyo.

Select...ATO L2 Test SearchSearch The Web

#11 The LibraryThing Thing

LibraryThing is a bit like a mini Amazon but also a great way just to keep a note of some of the books you are interested in. I reckon one great appliaction for this is as your own checkout system for when friends borrow books from you. I'm sure someone has already created a mashup that does just this.

You can find some of the books here that I have cataloged in the side bar of the blog.