I asked about copyright yesterday..and got back just about as authoritative an answer as I could hope for (see comments) today – so this blogging does work for good information! Thanks Phil.
I have been playing around with ideas for a library blog, by mocking up a blog on wordpress, as I agree with Susan it is hard to structure in your mind how the interaction would happen. It got exciting though as the pages developed, and new ideas and topics, for getting information out and feedback in, opened up! Looks quite cool, and it took hardly any time at all; (so now I am going to propose it to our Fair Trade group as a way of keeping updates on the web, without web authoring skills- yes I seem to be hooked!).
I am not sure how much time it would take though, if a site became truly interactive.
For work I am really most interested in wikis because of the collaborative information base it builds, and it seems like a good way of tailoring, marketing and providing services at the same time. The comments on copyright about who is deemed the publisher of a collaborative site are really helpful here, because presumably that means that any intitiatives we make become the legal responsibility of our employers, and so close moderation would be really important if used for serious health information, which reinforces the points made about wikisurgery on Susan’s blog
So this week end I am going to play around and make a library induction podcast, and a wiki, and see what happens!
