Answer boards

This is a cool thing, but one has to be careful what to believe when the questions are answered in some instances. There are people answering questions left, right and centre and you don't know how accurate the answer might be. The exception to this is the Librarian answer board. The answers are usually supported with evidence and references. At least the asker can depend on this to be as accurate as possible.

Answer boards can be a useful tool within libraries, but in ours we use RefTracker so I can't see us implementing another similar system in the near future. However, a rating option for our borrowers might have some merit. Some people like to have a say about specific items such as a book so from that point of view it may be good tool. (we already have a feedback option on our website so they can also use that for a similar purpose)

Delicious and the like

Looking at this resource it definitely is something that I could use. I'm just getting a little overwhelmed with all the resources that are out there. I would like to utilise them all but am somewhat time poor with my workload already stretched. I guess I'll have to juggle things around a bit more so that I can get into it more.

Setting up delicious was easy but putting the link onto the blog was a little more fiddly until I actually worked it out. So my link is there :)

I also found LibraryThing exercise a bit confusing and not as easy to use as the others. Hopefully I've done the exercise correctly 'cause my list is on the side.

With regard to searching on these, it's interesting what different results you get depending on how you search.

Wikis

Although I've used wikipedia and such resrouces I was always a little down on wikis and preferred the thought of blogs instead. Now that I've used and edited the pbwiki this is starting to turn that around. There is definitely merit in using a wiki especially when putting things like work procedures online which need to be edited at some stage.
I think I'll be investigating wikis in more detail :)

More RSS

I've just been able to check out the RSS feeds on the aggregator in more detail and am finding lots of interesting stuff like 'quote of the day' and the pictures of the day from the Powerhouse Museum are absolutely awesome. Being a bit of a foodie it's nice to check out some of the recipes that are around like Jamie Oliver foods. Yum!

As a professional development tool this is great. It's so easy to keep up with the latest trends in our industry as well as latest book reviews and technical innovations that might become a necessity in our day-to-day lives. It's a whole new world out there...