A new project for me!
Now that everything is officially official, I can let my loyal readers know what my next big project will be (besides 4 presentations in 3 months and a changeover from Exchange to Google hosted email)! While I was in Anaheim for ALA, I was approached at my table at the Social Software Showcase by an editor for the ALA Tech Source Tech Reports and asked if I’d like to write one for them. After some discussion of topic and timing, I can now say that the May/June 2009 issue of the Tech Report will be on Collaboration 2.0 (working title – it’ll probably change…) and will deal with using Web 2.0 tools (Facebook, Ning, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) to provide a platform for collaboration in libraries. I’m pretty excited about the project and am champing at the bit to get started! I’ll be doing some serious tapping into my social network to get examples of collaboration from my librarian buddies on Twitter, Facebook, Ning (starting to sound familiar?) and the like. Don’t feel like you have to wait to be asked, though, if you are doing some collaborative project and using these tools – feel free to drop me a line and let me know what you are doing any time!
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Congratulations Robin. That one will be fun to write
Maybe you could just set up a wiki with chapter headings, send a call out to your network and ask them to go for it …
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
This is great news, Robin! I like Kathryn’s idea, too — If there’s a wiki with pages for the various technologies, I think people (including me) will add ideas and examples. And it will be collaboration in action (kind of Escher-ish
).
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Ohhh! Ladies, that is an excellent idea! I’ve barely started the planning process, but when I get as far as having chapter headings set up, I’ll do that. I love my social network!!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Sounds like a great project. Don’t forget the Library 2.0 community on Ning.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
What a great project! Congrats. And neat idea to build a wiki as a “collaborative collaboration” – very meta-meta and escher-ish!
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Congratulations Robin. That one will be fun to write
Maybe you could just set up a wiki with chapter headings, send a call out to your network and ask them to go for it …
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
This is great news, Robin! I like Kathryn’s idea, too — If there’s a wiki with pages for the various technologies, I think people (including me) will add ideas and examples. And it will be collaboration in action (kind of Escher-ish
).
July 22nd, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Ohhh! Ladies, that is an excellent idea! I’ve barely started the planning process, but when I get as far as having chapter headings set up, I’ll do that. I love my social network!!!
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Sounds like a great project. Don’t forget the Library 2.0 community on Ning.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Yay, Robin! What a fun and exciting project!
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 pm
What a great project! Congrats. And neat idea to build a wiki as a “collaborative collaboration” – very meta-meta and escher-ish!
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 am
Yay, Robin! What a fun and exciting project!
August 5th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Congrats!! Sounds like a blast. Let me know if you need any help. We are not doing much 2.0 wise at Webster University, but if you just need someone to bounce ideas off of, I can be your woman!
August 6th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Congrats!! Sounds like a blast. Let me know if you need any help. We are not doing much 2.0 wise at Webster University, but if you just need someone to bounce ideas off of, I can be your woman!
August 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Congrats!!! (I’m a little slow at reading these)
August 14th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Congrats!!! (I’m a little slow at reading these)