Learn 23 1/2 things

I think this was a wonderful program and a fun way to develop professionally. I learned a lot of things that I didn't know before and I believe that I now can speak about many issues that revolve around web 2.0. Over all the program was very well laid out with very good examples, resources and exercises to reinforce the concepts that were being introduced. My favorite discovery was FlickR and favorite exercise the Rollya Assignment. Yes, if there is another discovery program like this in the future I definitely will want to participate.

Audio Books

While it is nice that QBPL has a collection of audio books it is rather limited. I explored the collection and while there are some interesting titles I was not able to find what I was looking for in English though I did find it in Spanish.

Podcasts and smodcasts

I used podcast net to search for books and found a number of sites that offer information mainly from publishers. I subscribed to the Simon Says podcast on my blogline site.

Face book and social networking

The facebook application that I like the most for libraries is book iread which allows people to share book titles and write reviews I think this would be a great addition to QBPL for our patrons to communicate among each other. I personally like myFlicker as it allows one to edit and share photos.

Discovering WEB 2.0 tools

I'm picking google docs as a tool that I really like and think is useful. This allows someone to produce and access documents from anywhere they are and then even post them to their blog. All of this without even buying any software or installing it on their machine. For the library this is useful as many of our clients don't own a computer so prior to tools like this they could not even create document or spreadsheet and then save it for future use.

ITUBE YOUTUBE

This is a lecture by Randy Pausch that I think is very good and is posted on youtube.

Let's collaborate and have a good time

I wrote this document in Google docs and uploaded a file to my account of a picture of my family. I paste it into this document and uploaded to my blog. All through Google, wow... cool. Groovey.