tags

Tags are very important in Flickr. Without tags there would just be a jumble of photographs. Tags add structure to the photos and basically catalog them. A community could develop on Flickr with the use of tags. There could be a Virginia Beach community based on tags or a specific college community based on tags. Tags allow photos to be identified and for others to find them when searching for specific words.

Flickr

I have just created a Flickr account and I loaded 4 photos onto my account so far. The photos are from a cruise that I took at the beginning of January 2008. Flickr is a great way to share photos with family and friends. A library Flickr account would be a good way for a library to show what types of events are held in the library and it could also show people having a great time at a library event. I have added one of my photos that I have on Flickr to this blog. The photo is of my husband and I overlooking our cruise ship on the island of St. Thomas.

Craigslist

I took a look at Craigslist, which is a Web 2.0 award winner. I like Craigslist. I have purchased things from here in the past and have sold things on Craigslist as well. The thing that I like about this tool is that you can list items to sell for free. On negative feature of it is that you have to keep relisting something if it does not sell straight away. Each listing is grouped into a day and that is the only day it will appear, although it is easy to search the listings from previous days. The only use I could see for this in a library setting is to recommend it to a customer that is trying to buy or sell something.

Tecnorati

Tecnorati was fun to explore. I could see myself using this on a personal basis but not at work in a library. I do not see blogs as reliable information that you could answer reference questions with. To me blogs are mainly a social item with peoples personal views and beliefs. I did a search of Learning 2.0 on Tecnorati and I did manage to locate and view some of the VBPL Learning 2.0 blogs. I liked the feature that allowes the user to "add this blog to my Technorati favorites."

Its Delicious

I like using Delicious. I have lots of sites that I like bookmarked on my home computer, but bookmarks do not work on the staff computers because they do not carry forward to other computers. Delicious is a bookmarking feature that does work on library computers and it is a great feature to have. I really cannot see any potential for this tool for research assistance other then to keep your favorite sites for reasearch a few clicks of the mouse away. I will continue to use Delicious long after Learning 2.0 is over.