I'm familiar with many of the tools that are part of 23 things as a semi-compulsive internet lurker, but I haven't necessarily had hands-on experience with many of them. I hope to take this opportunity to be a user and not only an observer!
The web 2.0 wiki article was a good place for me to start. It seems that most of the things I do while sitting at a computer are web 2.0-y. I also learned the word 'folksonomy,' which if I am correct in understanding, can be used to describe ThisNext.
Even given my personal use of web 2.0 tools, I find myself being a little stodgy about lib 2.0. I'm afraid a library could exclude some patrons by overly integrating their services with at-home internet use. It's wonderful for a library website to link patrons to information and downloadable materials, but it is the books that are loaned that make a library different than a store or an internet service. See, stodgy!
I must miss college - I was happy to spend some time reading these articles and thinking about these ideas. If you're thinking this means I should just go to library school already, you're not the first : )
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I agree that we shouldn't give up on face-to-face services and such, but there is definitely a demographic out there that we'll fail to connect with if we don't embrace the technology that they choose to use when communicating.
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