Thing 12: Wikis

Jennifer and I will be hanging out at the NEFLIN 23 Things Wiki to encourage folks to create pages, make comments on existing pages, etc.

The most interesting use of a wiki for me was in the "Writing for the Web" workshop we had last year. The instructor had all the workshop participants do their writing assignments in the shared wiki for the class. We could then look at each other's writing and make comments. It was a great use of a wiki.

Thing 11: Social Media

I do love the videos from the Common Craft Show (and now I'm hungry for some Red Velvet ice cream). It really did help explain the use of social media sites.

I have been visiting Digg for some time. Many times the stories that are "digged" (very popular) are not picked up by major news outlets for some time (or ever).

I'm off to try the others; Mixx, Newsvine and Reddit. I'll report back if one of those sites catches my fancy.

Thing 10: Tagging and Delicious

I have used delicious in the past, but it had kinda fallen off the map for me. My main idea was...when we had a workshop like "Business Resources on the Internet" that we would use delicious as a place to store the many websites that were used for the workshop. Eventually, any NEFLIN workshop that was like this one could follow the same pattern. I started with my "To Google or Not To Google" workshop. You can see that 33 sites are shown off in that class (under the label "ng").

I am going to take some time to read other's blog and see how they are using this service.

Link to Main Blog - 23 Things @ NEFLIN

Thing 9: Sharing

I have used Slideshare for some time. I like it quite a bit.

I grabbed a presentation my brother made recently and it was again made easy by the site, because it provides the html code to embed in Blogspot. 2.0 really is spoiling me.

Vacant Land Guide - How to Buy Vacant Land at Wholesale Prices

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Thing 8: Communcation Web 2.0 Style

I haven't really been a fan of Instant Messaging from past experience. However, I'm willing to give it another go.

I had Yahoo Instant Messenger for a while about six or seven years ago. It was just okay. This time around I'm going with Meebo. It allows folks with a variety of clients to use the Meebo interface.

It only took a few minutes to copy the Meebo widget code to Blogspot and voila I have the IM chat box on my blog (look on the right frame under "About Me").