Thoughts on Wikis & Blogs

Over the last week or so I have been dabbling in and out of the 23 things related to Wikis & Blogs. I listened to the podcast by Meredith Farkas explaining the difference between them. She says wikis are always a work in progress while blogs are good for promoting something. The wiki she helped organise for the ALA conference in 2006 was a cool thing to do. The whole wiki principle of the community contributing to the information and the self policing aspect is an amazing phenomena. I also read the Wikipedia entry on Library 2.0 and the links within that were interesting to follow up on. Never enough hours in the day to investigate all the resources etc.! I could see how we could introduce things to our own library blog - such as staff & students discussing useful resources, book reviews, although some of this is more public library activities. We could get users to comment on the library service via the blog. Maybe Wanganui could use a blog to promote the new library and receive comment from users as to how they are finding the new building and services. We could place progress photos on the shift and setup on the library blog.