Summary

Okay so this has been a long haul but I think 2.0 was great and I learned some pretty cool stuff. I had been somewhat familiar with many of the 2.0 apps we studied but I found some interesting caveats which I will continue to use such as the flickr mashups and third party sites, the online image generator and developing and contributing to wikis. I feel that this is a great training resource and as more and more information is transferred and maintained electronically, it is important for us library employees to be familiar with these types of programs and applications.

Overdrive

I cant log in to overdrive because my pin is not working at the moment but I downloaded the Console and went through the tutorial.
Overdrive is a great resource that not many people are aware of. It is good to see patrons can download to itunes now as well.

Podcasts

I haven't really gotten into too much with podcasting but I have listened to a couple through searches in ITunes. I looked at the other sites JPL had listed and Odeo and Podcast Pickle were both easy to use.
I added an RSS feed to my bloglines account.

Lisa Hannigan

zoho writer

Zoho is a great resource for librarians to have up their sleeves! I wish I would have known about this when I worked at Highlands and got several resume questions a day. Like many have said here, it is difficult to explain setting up an email account as well as helping someone format a resume on a busy day. With zoho, a user may not need that email address just yet.

Also, word has a resume template but I found the templates on zoho easier to find and use.

Wikis

I love wikis and they are great tools to gain perspective and ideas from people world wide. It also gives people a chance to share information with people on specific subject matter.

I liked the Book Review and ALA New Orleans Event wiki's posted on the JPL blogspot. As librarians, book review wikis are especially helpful in that it saves time when looking up a specific book review. The wikis allow the reader to gain a conscise version of those hundred or so reviews that pop up.

Also, with events such as ALA its cool that wikis are available for people who are not directly in contact with the ALA so they can arrange travel, schedules, ect..

Basically wiki's are super helpful in my opinion.