Skyping

Our CCL Learn Wednesday group held our meeting this morning via Skype conference call, which everyone enjoyed (for some people it was a highlight of CCL Learn so far)! Skype is fantastic as it is so easy to use, and free - I use it regularly to call family and friends in Australia, and it's even better with the webcam option. Glad to see CCL Learn making use of this technology, and it was a great opportunity for those who haven't used it before to see how easy it really is. It also got us thinking about the possibilities of integrating Skype into our daily business transactions, especially for cross library meetings - we could all see the benefits of time saved on travel etc, and the ease of everyone being able to remain at their place of work in case of low staff numbers, but still enabling everyone to attend metings and collaborate with other staff, also across other Council units.
The Web 2.0 module seems to follow on very nicely from this, looking at what Web 2.0 is, and government agencies use of different Web 2.0 tools, for 'concentration' and 'diffusion' - more on that in the next post.