THING 2 What is Library 2.0?

Regarding Library 2.0, a link to a Stephen Abram
podcast on the topic was added in the right-hand
column Friday.

On Saturday one of my librarian friends mentioned
that she thought her newly posted blog for the 23
things exercise was already less static than her
library's web page. She was only at Thing 3!
It is fun to hear others tout the benefits of this
exercise.

My boss called several times this week to get
a little help with posting and making her avatar.
She was concerned that she would be "spitting
nails" soon, but I think it went well for her. It
is, of course, time consuming.

In conversation recently it was
mentioned to me that young people's
concepts of privacy might be quite
different than a librarian's.

We have policies in place to protect
the privacy of our patrons that some
who use Web 2.0 all the time might
consider "over-protective". Although
the privacy of our 2.0 users is under
their control (if they read the options
in fine print), we may need to point out
the "how-to".

Once we learn these things, there is no going back.
I wonder what percentage of businesses use
private wikis or MS Live office or Google docs
and such to communicate? Since we can communicate
with multiple people at once, these tools could be more
efficient, as long as folks are good at written communication.

Recently, our teenager said he was kinda sick of
MySpace and Facebook. It will be interesting to see
whether the "been there, done that" attitude shows
up as a phenomenon with other teens. Not sure
how one gauges what is fad and what is here for
the duration.