What’s a collaborative blog for if not collective brain picking? I’d like to harvest some thoughts about which technologies/social software/new web tools you think libraries should be prepared for.
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We just wrapped up a two month project at work where we used a tikiwiki installation to look at new web tools using new web tools. For MULTA (Murdoch University Library Thinking Aloud), I wrote a wiki page describing what each one was, why we should know about it and giving some examples. Participants had a few tasks to do each week based around one tool and then I gave a hands on workshop for each. I also wrote some pages describing some Library2.0 concepts and associated memes like The Long Tail. We looked at:

• Content Management Systems
• Forums
• RSS feeds
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social tagging (del.icio.us and Flickr mainly).

We’d like to continue with the wiki page/workshop model to look at new technologies regularly. Some of the suggestions have been:

• Screencasting using Captivate
• Podcasting
• Vodcasting
• Virtual worlds like Second Life
• Using flash in web sites

What else would you add and why?