Web 2.0 Tools

There were some great sites on the list of top 100 Web 2.0 tools. I looked at quite a few of them, and bookmarked a few with Del.icio.us. Some were just for fun, and others could have an application for the library. For instance, I looked at Urban Spoon, which lets you register and rate and review restaurants by geographic area. It also has menus for many of the restaurants being rated. It was fun looking at and reviewing restaurants just from a personal perspective, but I can see how it could also be a useful link on a community information wiki.

Another one I enjoyed was One Sentence. Here the task is to write a story in one sentence. Some were poignant, others just made me laugh!

I looked at Mango which is a language learning tool because we often have people asking about an online language tool. I only looked at the free first lesson, but it looked pretty good. There was also a link for libraries, but you had to contact a rep to get a quote, so I didn't go that far.

Book Movement is for book clubs and has lots of reviews and discussion guides for book club friendly books, but it also has some social networking components allowing members of different book clubs to contact authors and other book clubs. This is another one that would be good for a library website, and I'll be recommending it to my book club too.

Biblio.com looked like another source to send people to who are looking for used and out of print books.

Wufoo lets you set up forms for surveys and registrations, and it works with pay pal so that you can take reservations and donations. There's a free version which is limited, and then you can pay for more forms, etc. per month. I can see this might also be useful for collecting patron feedback.

Apparently you could spend a long time looking all this cool stuff, but since I'm trying to finish up the 23 Things, I'll book mark it to go back to later.