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.
October 26, 2007 at 3:19 am
Thanks Louisa and Kathryn for your input to this presentation.