#21 Podcasts

This is one tool I really like. Provides me the opportunity to catch up on news, radio programs, conference presentations and the like that I haven't been able to hear 'Live.'There are many places to find podcasts. the ones I visit most are ABC radio, Radio National, Library conferences,
and some of the databases we subscribe to at the Library also include them. One I used recently was Oxford Premium Online which provides many interviews and biographies. New material is regularly added.

#20 YouTube

If you have followed my journey so far, you will realise that sometimes I don't play by the rules. YouTube was another site that I visited early in the peace, when I was looking for some tutorials to add to the elearning egipps blog.
I've also played with Fuzzwitch and Google video.
Can see lots of potential in this media and will use in in some of my upcoming projects in communication, elearning and digital storytelling.

#19 Web 2.0 awards list

I've played with a number of the options, some of which I've heard about before but not followed up on. I only chose tools from the short version. Here's a list of some that I visited.
Flock: a social browser that lets you bring all your web accounts together and provides links to many of the popular tools. Could be quite useful.
Colour blender: 1000's of colour combinations that you can pick and use for graphic design, etc.
Odeo: One that I will spend more time on later. Podcasts and (free) mp3 music
One sentence: some people have too much time on their hands.
Ning: Lots of online communities.
43 things - will return to this later.

19 down - getting there!!

#18 Online spreadsheets

I opened a google spreadsheets and docs account earlier this year and have used it many times in a collaborative project. It's a bit limited for me as most of my correspondence has to be done in a corporate environment, but for brainstorming, drafting and gathering preliminary evidence, this is a tool I find useful.

Playing around with wiki

Haven't had time to do much with wikis in the past, but have had them on my to-do list. This exercise has given me more insight into the uses of wikis and once again, can see many uses for them. I've added my blog to the Austalian list and also a favourite gardening site.
the Libraries Success wiki is one I will come back to.

Libraries and wikis

Web 2.0 technologies provide the opportunity to develop new initiatives in library service delivery. Wikis in particular could be used to engage people in ways we would only have dreamt of in the past. Whether it be staff to staff in collaborative tasks, training and the like, staff to member or member to staff in collaboration or advisory roles, or maybe its an amalgamation of member to member, staff to many, member to many... the opportunity exists and it is up to us to think outside of the square - to adapt this resource to our community and organisational need. the following blog is a good place to start for ideas:
Introduction
Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.
http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Introduction
From Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Join the Community
3 Categories
3.1 Community
3.2 Management and Leadership
3.3 Materials Selection and Collection Maintenance
3.4 Professional
3.5 Programming
3.6 Readers' Advisory
3.7 Reference Services and Information Literacy
3.8 Resource Sharing
3.9 Selling Your Library
3.10 Services to Specific Groups
3.11 Training and Development for Librarians
3.12 Technology
3.12.1 Access
3.12.2 Implementing Tech in the Library
3.12.3 Information Sharing and Education
3.13 Working Together
4 Need help?

#13 #14 #15 Done

I've now worked through these tasks and have passed the half way mark of the program.
Web 2.0 offers a huge amount of options for libraries or indeed any organisation that engages their community. I will be putting some of these tools to work in the very near future..