Toes in the water

So here I am at SALCTG’s Show and Tell Web 2.0 extravaganza. About 25 good library staff and true have gathered in a windowless PC lab at Napier Uni, forgoing bright warm sunshine outside, to find out just what the heck everyone else is actually doing in the web 2.0 arena. We’ve talked wikis and blogs, catalogue widgets and instant message enquiry services, and flown around the Sistine Chapel in Second Life. We’ve shared a few frustrations and misconceptions and many of us have felt outclassed by others’ presentations. There is so much more to be learned but it all needs time. I need to get under the bonnet more and gain confidence to enhance things, peek at the HTML a bit, not just go bargain basement with everything.

Stuff I’ll be looking up that I haven’t tried before… Meebo; Dapper; FeedBurner; Eurekster. Maybe. If I have time. Eat an Aero bar to sustain myself.

Have a good chat at lunchtime with a PhD student who is researching the psychology of learning technologies… plenty to analyse there I shouldn’t wonder! Actually find I have some business cards in my purse so encourage him to keep in touch.

The world is small and one of the delegates turns out to be a fellow musician who knows some muso friends of mine. And there are biscuits, hurrah! I need my strength if I’m to make it through Peebles tomorrow…