20 cool 2.0 tools

By Peta

David Allen (Queensland State Library) and Peta Hopkins (Bond University) with the help of some audience members introduced 20, or thereabouts, cool,web 2.0 tools. The list, originally published at Peta’s blog, Inn0vate, is reproduced here.

Personal Information Management tools
Connotea – Social citations
Delicious – Social bookmarks
Library Elf – personal library helper
Pageflakes – portal – NH-S High School Library
Remember the Milk – task management

RSS tools
Page2RSS – create a feed for a page that doesn’t have one
Blogsieve – feed processing, mix and filter a number of feeds. Build a single feed on a topic.
Odiogo – convert your feed to audio

Calendars/Events
RSS calendar

Wikis & Collaboration
PBwiki – wiki
Wetpaint - wiki
Writeboard — One-page wiki

Communication & Social Networking
Meebo – Instant messaging/Chat rooms
Facebook – social networking

Multimedia
Flickrstorm – Search Flickr
Viddler – video hosting — Example with timed comments
Slideshare — presentations with audio — A useful example

There were a couple of other tools mentioned by the audience that are not listed here. Can you remember what they were? Please add a link in a comment.

One Response to “20 cool 2.0 tools”

  1. Peta Says:

    Thanks Louisa and Kathryn for your input to this presentation.

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