For those of you who fancy brushing up your web 2.0 skills here is an interesting idea. This blog invites you to do 23 things over 12 weeks, starting on 18th January. The ‘things’ include setting up an iGoogle page, and also using Flickr and Piknik to play with photos. Furthermore, and I quote, ‘Staff who complete all 23 Things by 9th April will receive a completion certificate and a £10 voucher for Amazon or iTunes.’
The 23 things average out a 2 activities per week which seem like nice bitesize chunks to digest. Full info on the 23 Things can be found on the blog: http://23thingsoxford.blogspot.com/
Been thinking about doing this and probably will, as some more web 2.0 in my life probably won’t do much harm. Is anyone else?
We are both going to give it a go: not sure if it’s considered cheating if you already have a good handful of things on the summary covered but I agree with the ‘can’t have too much web 2.0 mentality’ and imagine it’s worth doing anyway.
Thanks for posting this, Alice. The Oxford Union Library staff shall be participating as a team. We thought that it would be helpful to pool our current knowledge and experience of 2.0, and perhaps then develop our online presence as an institution. And, we can motivate each other to keep updating!
@Susan – yes, you can include Web 2.0 examples you’ve already done. Think of it as getting credit for what you’ve already learned – then try the ‘extra’ bits for a bit of a challenge!
I too was planning to give it a go! Generally I’m sticking my toes into a lot of new Internet based tasks this year (the main being…the library I’m in!) and there are quite a few of the ’23 Things’ I have not yet done, so this will be a great experience!
I’m planning to give this a go too. I’m quite new to all things Web 2.0 so it’ll be nice to experiment with the 23 things and share our experiences as we go through the project.
Well, I’ve made an enthusiastic start on my iGoolge page, but I’m concerned that I won’t be able to use much of it in the Codrington. Although we do have some student readers using the modern collections, 95% of our work comes from researchers across the globe. Generally they contact us to see a specific item in a one-off appointment, or, if they can’t come to the library itself, need detailed archival or bibliographic details retrieved for them, so it’s hard to see how Web 2.0 can help this specific model.
Does anyone have any suggestions?! Or do I just have to wait until my next library (by which time we’ll be onto Web 2.1 at least…)?
I’m not really going to be using most of the tools covered by 23things on a day to day basis to do my job here at the library (although I’ve just noticed that picnik is on the list and I’ve used that today in replacement of decent image manip software here at work!) I am already finding them incrediably useful on a more personal level. Things like the blogs, twitter, i-google and social bookmarking sites are already proving very useful to me as they are brilliant for professional development and keeping on top of current awareness.