1. Learning & Web 2.0: It’s all about PLAY! Helene Blowers Public Services Technology Director The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County [email_address] LibraryBytes.com

2. Enlightening Educating Expanding Everyone Empathic Emerging Elementary Entertaining Enriching Enjoyable Essential Exciting Empowering Electronic Engaging Equality Embedded Embracing Enabling Energetic Enchanting Encouraging … Endangered?

4. http://www.personoftheyear.be/

6. “ Web 2.0 generally refers to a second generation of services available on the WWW that lets people collaborate and share information online .” - Wikipedia.com Shared Bookmarks = Shared News = Shared Videos = Shared Pictures = Shared Knowledge = Shared Everything =

7. “ The central idea of (Web 2.0 technologies) is harnessing collective intelligence.” - Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Watermill

8. Web 2.0 Communities

9. Organizational Effectiveness & Employee Engagement Marketing & Customer Engagement Web 2.0 Applications Web 2.0 is about creating dialogue.

11. http://www.darienlibrary.org/connections/books// Blogs: External

12. http://www.darienlibrary.org/directorsblog/

13. http://www.westernspringshistory.org/

14. http://www.westernspringshistory.org

15. PLCMC internal Circ communication blog Blogs: Internal

16. http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/ Blogs in Libraries

18. http:// www.libraryforlife.org/subjectguides/ Wiki: External

19. http://booklovers.pbwiki.com Wiki: External

20. Wiki: Internal System wide strategic priorities

21. http://dclstrategicplan.pbwiki.com

22. http://www.libsuccess.org Wikis in Libraries

24. http://www.homerlibrary.org/audioreviews.asp Podcast: External

25. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/bookcast/ Podcast: External

26. http://learningatlcpl.blogspot.com Podcast: Internal

27. Podcasting Libraries http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting

29. RSS (XML) if native format – NOT Pretty!

30. My Yahoo portal – RSS Feeds

31. http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/RSS.cfm

32. http://www.lcpl.lib.va.us/rss/index.htm

33. http://tinyurl.com/yk8npb

34. Bloglines.com

36. www.myspace.com/libraryloft Social Network: External

37. www.myspace.com/libraryloft Social Network: External

38. www.myspace.com/libraryloft Social Network: External

39. http://library20.ning.com

40. Social Network: Internal ? http://alamembers.ning.com/

41. Enlightening Educating Expanding Everyone Empathic Emerging Elementary Entertaining Enriching Enjoyable Essential Exciting Engaging Equality Embedded Empowering Embracing Enabling Energetic Enchanting Encouraging …

43. Harness the Power Engage! Empower !

44. http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/

45. http://www.flickr.com/photos/acplinfo/tags/dayinallencounty2007/

46. http://www.hclib.org/pub/bookspace/hpphotos.cfm

48. http://www.plcmc.org/fotofun/

49. http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php

50. http://teens.denverlibrary.org/media/youtube.html

51. http://teens.denverlibrary.org/media/youtube.html

53. What can you do to continually keep up with changes ?

60. Getting Started

61. http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com

62. Week 1: Introduction Week 2: Blogging Week 3: Photos & Images Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders Week 5: Play week Week 6: Tagging & Folksonomies Week 7: Wikis Week 8: Online applications & tools Week 9: Podcasts, Videos & Downloadable audio + 1 month of extra exploration time.

64. www.LibraryBytes.com

65. Helene Blowers www.LibraryBytes.com [email_address]