Checklist ...

I thought I should do a quick checklist against the topics and make sure I haven't missed anything so far:

• Week 1 - watched it, read it OK
• Week 2 - set up my blog and explored Technorati, have also set up a blog using Wordpress (a few more features but trickier to get the hang of so I think Blogger is a good choice for this course)
• Week 3 - I've uploaded photos to flickr, added tags to them, searched for quite a few. Haven't quite mastered the Flickr upload tool direct to my blog but managed to upload photos to my blog anyway. I think Creative Commons is important - it has applications to a lot of the work we do here where we're happy to share with acknowledgement. I think people misinterpret it as an alternative to copyright law - it's not, it's just a way of indicating what type of sharing and reuse you authorise within copyright.
• Week 4 - RSS: I have used bloglines a lot, it compares well to another RSS reader I have used "RSS Bandit" which is also good, I have also dabbled with Google Reader. I have to track blogs a lot in my day to day work so tools like these make it much more effective ... now I just need a daily timeslot to read the posts! I'd like to see us put RSS feeds on a lot of our SLNSW webpages and into our catalogue for new items by authors / subjects - I think our clients would find it really useful.
• Week 5 - I have edited a Wikipedia entry and created a couple of wikis in pbwiki (so easy and working well). I think we need wikis behind the firewall for internal use and also access to ones externally for our clients. I think we need to have a discussion about what information we put on our official website and what needs to live in these 'collaborative spaces'. I wish we could set up an Australiana wiki...!