Finish Line

Yipppeeee! I can't believe I made it to the Learning 2.0 Finish Line! I have to admit I had a lot of fun with this project despite my early reservations. The best part has been learning with other PLCMC staff outside of the traditional workshop environment. The exercises were challenging but not overly difficult when taken in small weekly bytes. If I hit a snag there was always someone nearby to offer suggestions and Helene was really on the ball with a helpful comment. Receiving and adding comments really adds to the fun and my Bloglines feeds are giving me up to the minute updates on my favorite blogs.

I might not personally use all the discovery tools we have explored in the past few weeks but here is my list of "Keepers."

1. Flickr
2. Bloglines
3. LibraryThing
4. YouTube
5. PBWiki

Although I may not feel the need for the social tagging sites, image generators or the web-based applications I am glad to know what's out there for our patrons who will probably ask about them. Yesterday a fellow staffer asked me if I intend to keep my blog now that I've finished the assignment. I think I will for a while at least. Afterall, it was a lot of work! I might decide to modify it a bit but it's really a diary of all I have learned so it's worth hanging on to in that respect.

I am considering building a wiki. My family is spread out in three states and we plan to be together for Christmas this year - something that is rare for us. We've been discussing how to go about the gift giving and I'm thinking about a family wiki where we can each list our favorite things. (hmm, where do you suppose I got that idea?) Favorite restaurant, favorite store, favorite perfume, favorite pipe tobacco, etc. We can put together a small gift basket for each person or give a gift card or certificate. We don't have a huge family - only 9 of us - so this is definitely doable and it would be fun for all of us to post our favorites on a wiki. My sister is an editor so I think she will be in heaven crossing out & changing text at her will :-) So PBWiki here I come! I think HB has created at least one monster. Only time will tell how many more of us are out there. . .