The End

Yes! I'm done, and yet there is so much more to be explored! It was a great exercise and I can't see that much has to be improved as a basic introduction to things 2.0. Thanks Kathleen for your help.

My Top Three favorite discoveries had to be:
1. The Blog: How easy it was to set up an account and work through the exercise and now I'm blogging away daily!

2. NetLibrary downloading: This was major for me as having won that MP3 player (I now no longer think it is a camera!), I have now gone through the exercise of actually downloading from NetLibrary onto my player.

3. LibraryThing: Exploring this and knowing I will want to go back and use it. Also exploring De.licio.us.

There were take-away surprises for sure. Would like to do more at home with Flickr and great to know how to inbed podcasts into a blog or even how to search for them.

Cannot stress how useful this exposure to these 23 things has been to my knowledge both on the job and in general. It has always been one of my life goal's to continue to learn. This was just an appetizer, I know, and I need to go back to all of the sites to really become familiar with them. Appreciate the staff time given to do this exercise.

Award Winners

I went to the shortlist and had a hard time choosing! I looked at Biblio, the used and out-of-print book site. I searched for the "Boy and the Buffalo" by Kerry Wood, an Alberta author, written in the early 60' and my brother-in-law's favorite childhood book. There were 6 hits for this title and Canadian sites were flagged. A useful site for those looking for OP books.

Also looked at Craig'slist that I've heard about. It would be useful in finding classified newspaper-type information.

Zoho Writer

I was able to create a message using "Quick Create" on Zoho Writer, save it to Word and then paste it into my blog. Message reads:

Merry Christmas to All...

I was disappointed that I could not get it to copy in color and large font but it was fun trying! Zoho could be a useful tool and a good way to share documents.

Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

Read it all, as very fascinating. Enjoyed comments from the last perspective that suggested that Library 4.0 will absorb everything from 2.0 and up. That the library as a collaborator central and knowledge spa will be a comfort zone and that people will want to collect librarians (as knowledge-finders) rather than books.
On a more practical level, some things like patron reviews and tagging could be a next step for our library. Also, how great it would be, to have access to a Worldcat where no authentication is required.

Technorati

I tried a keyword search for "learning 2.0". I found the blogs came from every possible point of view and the tags took you in a multitude of directions, although it was obvious that there was some common content to link them. Liked the fact that videos on learning 2.0 could be found in one place using the tab. Also looked at Advanced Search and tried searching in each of the categories: keyword, tag, URL and directory. I searched SAPL's URL in the Advanced Search to discover several references from the Book Club blog, Pete's Picks etc. Amazing that Technorati is so all-encompassing.

Del.icio.us

I followed up on my search for lyrics sites for country music. A search under lyrics in Del.icio.us gave me some great options including sites that have tabs for guitars as well as lyrics. I can see why this is a first stop for reference searching.

Rollyo

This was fun! I set up a mini search engine using Rollyo to search for country song lyrics for one of our regular patrons.