Hopes

The term 'Web 2.0' was apparently coined in 2004 to distiguish a shift in the way people began to create and consume information on the web.* Web 2.0, the current phase of the Internet, has taken readers beyond static web pages and into the realms of online communities and collaboration through social software.

For a long time I've liked the idea of exploiting lots of Web 2.0 technologies to see what they do and how to use them, but I've found excuses to not bother: because I can't think of a topic to focus a blog on; because I don't know how to start and because I don't have any guidance etc. etc.. The 23 Things Oxford Programme has expelled some of my excuses. Doing a couple of Web 2.0 things a week sounds like good IT-literacy exercise really. I also quite fancy a challenge and a certificate for my efforts - it harks back to my days as a Brownie. I hope I meet the deadline!

* Kroski, Ellyssa. (c.2008). Web 2.0 for librarians and information professionals. London : Neal-Schuman. p.2.