I have finished the learning 2.1 course, with some workplace whirlwind webbing. I thought this post would be better suited with my highlights of this bonus adventure rather than blogging about each one.
Firstly building upon the web 2.0 course and some of the features that have benefited me personally are: Google Documents, Flickr, delicious and Youtube.
The web 2.1 course gave excellent tips and advanced features for Google documents: The keyboard shortcuts will certainly come in handy and I have even started using the spreadsheet function which is excellent. I am a big fan of the Google Suite of various programs: Google calendar will indoubtedly help me as time management is never one of my strong points.
Some of the features raised in the various weeks of the 2.1 course, I was already quite familiar with and have used previously. For example I have had a igoogle page for quite a while. (It's always interesting to see what barren landscapes look like around the world when its 3am in the morning!)
Some of the web 2.1/2.0 tools that dont seem to be as much use to me are Nings, Twitter, maybe this is because it is only early days for my utilising of these technologies. Although regarding twitter I think that because I dont have an I-phone or similar product, I am not going to be terribly mobile, i.e. To answer the Twitter question: What are you doing now? The answer would have to be a boring, sitting at a computer somewhere logging on to twitter :). I also found out that of the people I knew, many more people were on facebook rather than twitter. On a side note: I would like our library service to have facebook and twitter accounts but I am not wholly convinced of the usefulness for the libraries to use these two services specifically. Although it may certainly provide an option for the library to reach a younger audience.
By far and away the best web 2.0 app that I have used in delicious, although I dont normally scan other peoples bookmarks and see whats popular. I mainly like it for the convenience of being able to access my bookmarks anywhere. This has helped greatly at work where I have to access regular sites from different pc's but also with my university studies. It is handy that the learning 2.1 course has taught me how to link twitter with delicious so I can comment on my bookmarks and do so collaboratively as well!.
I think that some of the next best things to be developed and used (more so than they are already) by libraries and other organisations are slideshows and online screencasting.
