Blogs, Wikis, Nings! I'm still a bit fuzzy about what different features each of these offers.
I can't imagine why wikis work - I see the use for them in libraries, for book reviews etc, but it amazes me that there's not a lot of wrong info posted, especially in something like wikipedia.
The Ning seems like a great tool for social interaction, and as an educational site. As I understand it the primary difference between a Ning and a Blog is that a Ning is controlled by a social group, whereas a Blog is controlled by an individual. Are more visual tools available on a Ning than a Blog? Is a Blog always in order (reverse chronological)? I'll find the answers to these (and no doubt many more) questions before I get to the end of this exercise.
At the moment I'm not sure how I can use any of these in my Home Library Service work. Perhaps at some stage in the future it would be useful to have a Ning set up as a forum for HLS recipients. It could be used for information sharing (posting library news, booklists, etc. and for feedback, reviews, etc. from the recipients) and for a level of social interaction which those recipients who are online might appreciate. At this stage however, the majority of HLS recipients don't have access to a computer and are generally not interested.
Of course, as a Reader's Adviser, I need to be familiar with how these areas of technology work and I'm therefore very happy to be involved in Learning 2.0. I hope to be able to sensibly discuss them, offer advice (?), and access more areas, for library borrowers.
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