Social Networking

Social networking is a great way to interact with the community - we could use it to promote our services eg kids activities, movies we show and talks.
I currently use Facebook to interact with friends and find it very time-consuming (distracting !)

Online applications

I like the idea of using this rather than our O:Drive...it is a bit hard to explain, but our current setup for IT is very slow to acess things from the network, but this would work. Potential, potential!

Mashups

I really like this - I am definitely going to use it more in the future! What fun :)

Podcasts and Audio

This is great technology - if I had lots of time I would use it to create an oral history podcast about Yass to help record people's current and historical views.
It would also be fun to podcast storytime so that people from the outlying villages could listen to it without having to come into town.

Answer boards and social networking

I don't have a lot of faith in answer boards - who knows what responses you will get and who is responding. I think answer boards are good for people that want an opinion about something, but I notice that many of the questions being asked were about factual things. For these questions I would prefer to search for the answer in wikipedia etc.
I think it is very commendable of those Librarians taht are 'slamming the boards'.

Tagging etc

Well, I now have a del.icio.us account and have put a Shelfari on my blog (I like how this is presented as a bookshelf ).
It is becoming a bit daunting about how many things are out there that you can use...how do people keep up?

Videos Online

What a great way to let people know about your library. A bit labour intensive to actually film something and put it on YouTube, but I guess where there is a will there is a way...although I may have difficulty in convincing my staff to be in it!
I have always enjoyed the funny side of YouTube and I can now appreciate other uses for it.