A couple of social networking blogs that caught my attention tonight. One is from a colleague over at the University of Rochester who actually attended my workshop last week. Cynthia’s blog is Long time listener, first time caller – I love the title! Cynthia works in IT at the library and is [...]
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Good wiki news
Posted in Blogs, Wikis, collaboration, communication, media, technology on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It appears that wikis are changing the way we communicate. Although not a revelation to many of us (and, dare I mention, wikis are not revolutionary, its the way we use them that is new and different) , the mainstream media is picking up this theme and running with it. I love the [...]
Public library with a Web 2.0 mission
Posted in Podcasting, Web 2.0, Wikis, collaboration, flickr, learning, librarians, library 2.0, rss, teaching, technology on August 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This very cool story about the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County gives me hope for libraries and relevancy in the 21st century! The IT director charged her staffers with finding and using Web 2.0 technologies in the course of their jobs. The results? They developed a program called Learning 2.0 which is being [...]
CommentPress 1.0 released by if:book
Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0, Wikis, collaboration, open source, teaching on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The Future of the Book website has just released CommentPress 1.o, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text. I’m overjoyed to see this, as I am a firm believer in blogs as easier tools to use and manage than wikis. [...]


