What Happened Today?

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• Our wiki and blog didn't work. Why?
• Is there a need?
• ITI Blog and what makes it different
• Flickr and Technorati worked

Other wikis that work

• LibSuccess
• Unofficial ALA Wiki

Advantage: blog

• Easy to post information
• Chronological order
• Automatic RSS feed
• Comments can be attached to each post
• Only blog authors can edit the content of a post

• Why might the blog work? Because it gives non-bloggers a place to post thoughts and it could be easy to audioblog.

• Why might the blog not work? Because bloggers already have a place to blog, and non-bloggers don’t want to blog.

Advantage: wiki

• Anyone anywhere can contribute
• True equalized collaboration (when accounts aren’t required)
• Can create any order/flow to the information (sometimes chronological order doesn’t work well for the type of content)

• Why might the wiki work? Because anyone at the conference or offsite could add content.
• Why might the wiki not work? Because no one is sure what to put there (versus somewhere else) and wikis are still a little difficult to use (see Meredith Farkas’ advice?). Plus, they need a password to edit it, which might be too much of a barrier at this point.

• Personally, I think the tool that ended up working the best in this situation was Technorati. It was the one spot everything was pulled together.

Advantage: Technorati (view the IL05 tag)

• Automatically brought together all pieces that were posted anywhere (as long as they were tagged and the sites pinged Technorati)
• Made it easy to find things; one-stop shopping

I would also argue that we’ve had a lot of fun and socialness with Flickr. Of course, you had to know about Flickr, have an account, and know what you could do. I wish we could have done a whole session just on Flickr. :-P

Advantage: Flickr (view IL05 photostream)

• Mass tagging
• Human beings
• Fun, fun, and fun!

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