I was thrilled today to join the admirable ranks of Jessamyn and Andrea to offer a Web 2.0 smorgasbord to NH librarians.
My Web 2.SO? or Why Libraries Should Care, repurposed from BIGWIG, served as the day’s introduction. Jessamyn then offered a practical introduction to Flickr and del.icio.us. She even inspired me to [...]

Tamworth is a town of 2500 in the rural white mountains of NH. Yet, TheGoodPeasant, tamworth resident, took a video of the Cook Library’s 4th of July float and posted it on YouTube.
It’s not just kids or geeks. People in all types of places are using social tools online and they’re doing so [...]

Today I’m speaking to the Merri Hill Rock Library Cooperative on Social Software.
I’m impressed that among them are two really innovative and exciting blogs:
The Cutler Library in Litchfield has made an entire website with a series of free blogs from Blogger AND each is represented as a community space: BoaRD RooM, FRieNDS’ CoRNeR, INFoRMaTioN BooTH, [...]

I’m psyched that local papers are paying attention to Web 2.0, shifting primary information sources, and how libraries are responding to it to meet user needs even though “the trend has sparked anst-filled discussion for the past several weeks among librarians online.” Marian Peterson of the South Portland Library sums things up nicely:
Librarians need [...]