Wikis

Wikis are excellent sources for information and applications for planning.

I checked out several of the Wikis listed. Of course we have been using Wikipedia for years. The hardest thing is getting our patrons to understand that ANYONE can add to the wiki and that often information is incorrect. I found that for my purposes the Library Success wiki at http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page will be an invaluable source for information.

I see that libraries can use wikis for a variety of purposes. In our library we've attempted to use a wiki for book discussion and writing sharing. We have had moderate success only. Most of htat success came in the summer when we were really pushing the wiki. Our main problem right now is getting the work out that we have a wiki. Right now we are attempting to host a Winter Teen Reading Club on our Wiki. We are working with Killeen Public Library to have a dual city club. Check out our site at http://http//www.ci.harker-heights.tx.us/hhplwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page.

Technorati

I've been playing around in Technorati. I found that I most enjoyed looking at the reference type information "about" blogs rather than at the blogs themselves. I was very impressed with the relatively simple usage of larger and bolder letters to indicate the most used tags. This intuitive concept shows that simplicity is often best. It's completely intuitive. As I discovered tags and posts, I was also amused to find that at least the titles of most of the the top ten blogs indicate that those blogs are self-help in nature. Those at which I looked ended up being entertaining as well.

I did look up "learning 2.0" in Technorati. I found vastly varying sites, most of which were not at all what I wanted to read. I suppose that it just part of this type of open tagging.

I did claim my blog and I am going to attempt to tag this blog for Technorati as well. My concern is that I am not sure how useful my blog can be to other people. Since I have gone to the considerable trouble of tagging it, then I feel that I now have an obligation to make the blog educational or informative or entertaining. After reading several blogs, however, I see that other people do not feel the same pressures that I feel.

CTLS