Well I'm a bit of a fan of wikis too (as well as RSS feeds). And rather excitingly (well for me anyway as a non techno person) I have created a RSS feed to one of the wikis that was suggestedi.e. the library best practice one, and actually done it in my work e mail - so now I am officially using web 2.0 technology in my work capacity!
Wikis, How can we use them? Well I see them as a bit like the documents we have on the common drive e.g. the way we all add in our stats. Of course having them on the common drive works, so we wouldn't need to do that, but it is really more of a parallel for me. One way we could actually use wikis is on our web page where we put book reviews. We could actually open that up to the general public and allow them to put book reviews in as well so that we are not limited by library staff selections and views.... Maybe. Also not sure how that would be done technically.
I'm actually more of a user of wikis rather than a contributor. I do actually like and use wikipaedia - I actually find it a lot more reliable that I would expect and is often a good initial source of information.
As a private person I do use the net for information. Being old fashioned I g to books first but if I can't find a book on the subject or more often if I need recent information or something highly specific I find the net quite useful and will often look at wikipaedia in the first instance. I also look for websites which are .net or .org rather than .com. I especially like government websites and websites of non government organisations. - a bit off topic there...
By the way I looked at wookipedia as well at the Twilight saga one and also the readers advisory one.
Am posting now as I have to go off and do something, so a bit hurried this post.
XXX
Harry
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