It is rare that I step on a bandwagon and toot a horn for anything trendy especially tech trendy. Usually, like now, I’m quite a bit behind the curve and reserve my judgments until I have thoroughly tested and/or benefited from the trend.
Today, I toot for 2.o tools like Wiki’s. During my tenure as the co-chair of the Kentucky Library Associations‘ Strategic Planning Committee we used a wiki to do a lot of our work. That was 2007.,
Here and now, I just had a wiki established for my SLA Legal Division planning committee. (Just one more great member benefit of SLA.) With the recent failures of Gmail and my own desire not to clutter in-boxes, a Wiki was the perfect solution for our collaboration needs.
While I’m just beginning this process, we will be sharing working documents and hopefully a calendar through one interface that will allow us to work at our own pace and still keep everyone informed.
This collaborative application of 2.0 technology makes me very happy and much more productive. Who knows, if I keep this up, I might even explore Second Life sometime?
Do you use 2.0 tools for collaborative work in your own organization/enterprise or for your volunteer/professional activities? Do you like it/is it beneficial? Am I showing my background as a former law librarian/late adapter with this true confession?
Constance Ard March 5, 2009
