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!

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    1. Kathryn Greenhill Says:

      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 …

    2. Brenda Hough Says:

      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 :) ).

    3. Robin Says:

      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!!!

    4. Wilfred Drew Says:

      Sounds like a great project. Don’t forget the Library 2.0 community on Ning. ;-)

    5. pollyalida Says:

      What a great project! Congrats. And neat idea to build a wiki as a “collaborative collaboration” – very meta-meta and escher-ish! :-)

    6. Kathryn Greenhill Says:

      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 …

    7. Brenda Hough Says:

      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 :) ).

    8. Robin Says:

      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!!!

    9. Wilfred Drew Says:

      Sounds like a great project. Don’t forget the Library 2.0 community on Ning. ;-)

    10. Joy Weese Moll Says:

      Yay, Robin! What a fun and exciting project!

    11. pollyalida Says:

      What a great project! Congrats. And neat idea to build a wiki as a “collaborative collaboration” – very meta-meta and escher-ish! :-)

    12. Joy Weese Moll Says:

      Yay, Robin! What a fun and exciting project!

    13. Jodie Borgerding Says:

      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!

    14. Jodie Borgerding Says:

      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!

    15. Nikki Bateman Says:

      Congrats!!! (I’m a little slow at reading these)

    16. Nikki Bateman Says:

      Congrats!!! (I’m a little slow at reading these)

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