I think I can safely say that the Thali are all enjoying the experience of collaborating on this blog, exploring new ideas, learning and building an online community of (mostly) Australian (mostly) librarian bloggers. I’m amazed at how quickly this blog is capturing an audience with our subscriber numbers increasing and links coming into the blog from different sorts of sites. But we don’t just want an ‘audience’ we want a community.
If you are a contributor, commenter or reader of this blog we’d like to get to know you better. You can put yourself on the librariesinteract map, wherever you are in the world and tell us a little bit about yourself.

Not sure? - think of it as a learning experience - try your hand at one of these new-fangled web 2.0 thingies.

And while we are on the topic of online communities - having mentioned Nancy White’s blog, Full Circle Online Interaction (I discovered it quite by accident), Nancy checked out librariesinteract.info and liked what she saw. Nancy is visiting Australia in October on a speaking tour. There are a number of events around the country on e-learning and online community.

• With the emergence of more individually focused tools that enable connection, how do we find the balance between the individual and the community?
• What do we mean when we talk about blogs and communities in the same breath?
• How do we introduce social practices mediated by technology to second wave adopters?
• What are the top eight competencies of online interaction?
• What are the exciting organisational impacts and benefits of communities of practice (CoPs)?

– Australian Flexible Learning Network.

Contact details and dates.