Tuesday 15 April 2008
Week 8: Answer boards and social searching
The techniques of social searching are appealing , refreshingly new and easy to use. However time quickly slips by as one browses contributions. Answer boards appear to be the quick fix that the next gen so badly wants and demands. If they knew that sort of thing was happening at their local library they might be engaged. I'll ask on Yahoo!7 how Answer boards could be used in public libraries and see if it merits a response. One of the best features of these boards is that if your question has already been asked, there will probably be an answer waiting : what great service! An important thing to keep in mind is evaluation of these sources of information.
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I will be interested to hear what you find out on the answer board. The answer boards can also be a way of generally promoting what libraries can do in helping people find answers.
Ellen
I had expected to receive few answers to my exact question and I was correct( 0 so far ). It is a wide web out there with much trivial information but the more tools we are aware of to use, the better. I was impressed by some responses I found on Yahoo7 like: Should libraries still exist ?
http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiYfbZ928DMX9CbMtLer9_sJ5wt.;_ylv=3?qid=20071020080020AAnV3xI
The comments show the usefulness of answer boards for sharing and promoting and I would use it for quick fix questions of a general nature like the one about "Do spiders hear ?"
It is also difficult with any social networking to actually get a social repartee occurring on a regular basis- just look at how many blogs in our Learning 2.0 program have more than one or two posts and comments.I would suggest we are all a bit scared to give feedback and cautious with whom we are engaging initially but once one gets the hang of it and finds kindred spirits then it becomes a powerful tool for information sharing.
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