Jasper's thoughts about the program

We made it.Yay!!! At times Mum and I were on an incredibly steep learning curve, but we dug our claws in and kept moving forward. As we first thought, time constraints seemed to be one of the natural enemies of Life Long Learning. Let's hear it for determination! There were a few little hiccups on this journey but no major cat-a-strophes. Thank you to all of our very helpful colleagues for their support. Some of our favourite things in the Web 2.0 program were, Image Generators, Flickr, Librarything and Youtube. These are great fun to play around with. On the more serious side Mum can see the potential uses of these sites and wiki tools to expand and improve library services. She was also very impressed with Web based applications and tools such as Google docs and spreadsheets, and del.icio.us. So is this the end???? We don't think so. We are now Contemplating using Wetpaint to create our own site (something we would never have dreamed of before!). Big thank yous to everyone who made it possible for us to take part in this program. We have learned sooo much and we really appreciate all of your efforts. Curiosity never really killed cats, or people for that matter, so you are likely to hear more about Jasper 's adventures in Web 2.0.

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Jasper

Like all Cats, I'm Attracted to Wet Paint

I have explored several of the sites on the Web 2.0 awards list but I thought Wetpaint was one of the best. It was very easy for me to sign up, create my own website and even search for other sites that I could contribute to. The instructions were extremely easy to follow and the FAQ information was very detailed. I thought that this site would have many uses in the library world, and my thoughts were justified when I stumbled across Nancy Pearl's Book Lust site by accident.

Wikis place moggie back in the lap of luxury

Wikis are wonderful tools. The Wyndham Library Service has already set up a wiki (with restricted access) enabling all staff members to contribute to a list of ideas for the future direction of the library service. What makes this truly amazing is that any staff member can add content to the wiki at any time, from any computer connected to the Web. Now Mum can spend more time pampering me at home, and at the same time she can continue to add to the wiki whenever she likes. She doesn't need to stay at work longer to contribute. Mum also likes the Princeton Public Library's "Book Lovers" wiki.