Task # 19 Discovering web tools

Going down the list of Web 2.0 awards it was nice to find a few familiar "faces", facebook, digg, reddit, flickr and youtube (of course!) and a big fave of mine, stumbleupon, which I use quite a lot at home. It really works and the more you use it the better it gets (if anyone out there loves craft, it has some fab craft sites! try not martha for a few cute ideas .. found it on stumbleupon! anyway, the purpose of this activity is not just to extol the virtues of stumbling your way through the web. I have a care2 account, which I've used for years so was glad to see that there.
I decided to try to create a wiki, as I can envisage this would be very useful to us. Just to play, created Melbourne Munchers which I am going to encourage everyone to use as a method of compiling decent restaurant reviews and places to find good recommendations. If you're reading this, please feel free to check it out! I would love to see my Library starting up some wikis in association with craft and special interest groups. We could purchase and recommend books and they can help with the content. Something in it for everyone! Wetpaint is easy to use and the template was perfect for the purpose.

Task # 17 PBwiki

Well, been there, edited that ... can't work the brackets or the link button (blonde moment!) but putting the address in without either of the above seems to work fine! I would like to know where a decent wiki exists out there for Melbourne restaurants as I would use it, I visit the breakfast blog to find brunch recommendations, but a wiki would be better suited i think. will search. Like a true librarian, though, I'd comment that the PB site is a complete mess and really needs someone to sit down and organise it! (no, I am not volunteering)!!

Task # 16 wikis

Ooo, the SJCPL wiki is lovely - and two amazing things about it - a) it was edited recently (nothing worse than a site that's dusty and out of date) and b) the crafts page has been accessed 49,125 times! Impressive. Someone clearly cares about that section. In some ways a shame that only the librarians can edit their wikis though, as surely the point is collaboration with users in this regard...
I luuurrrv the book lovers wiki. not a lot of content, but a clever idea to integrate a competition with a wiki and then into the library catalogue - very 2.0! also lurv the library success wiki though am terribly disappointed that the Home Library Services wiki is EMPTY (shame, fellow outreachers! i will add to this once i have something to boast of ... ) crazy, as I was scanning the web looking for just this sort of information only yesterday. i have hereby added to my del.icio.us and will use it i'm sure. much better than a forum.
so applications - I will use it myself to look for ideas (one passed on already, thank you to the library success wiki) and i can see applications for reference, subject area guides, competitions, events (e.g. run event on a topic and encourage participants, local business etc. to add to the wiki)... great section