2008 Web 2.0 training success

Just thought you might like to know how the Web 2.0 training has gone as 2008 comes to a close.

• 23 training sessions were held
• 131 bookings were made for them
• over 60% of staff attended at least one session
• there was a 16% drop out rate - so an 84% attendance rate
• 39 blogs were created
• 18 wikis were created
• 20 Facebook or MySpace accounts were created
• 28 Picasa or Flickr accounts were created

All in all a great success and we already have bookings for the next set of sessions!

I'm taking a breather so we'll be doing the next set of training in the New Year. Thanks to everyone who attended and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.

WCAG 2.0

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has announced a new standard to make sites more accessible to older and disabled people. Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) will apply to text, images, audio and video. It also covers web applications and should give developers more flexibility than the old guidelines. According to W3C, WCAG 2.0 should also be easier to understand and use.

The guidance is designed to address barriers encountered by people with visual, hearing, physical, cognitive and neurological disabilities and older people with access needs.
You can see the new guidance at - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

Lewisham's Web 2.0 in the news

Lewisham's Web 2.0 training has made the big time - well Cilip Update at least! Those of you who are members of Cilip can see the article on page 6 of the December edition, or online at http://www.cilip.org.uk/ Those of you who aren't can nick a copy from a colleague.

It's been posted about on the Cilip blog - members only to comment I'm afraid, and there's also a post about it and Learning 2.0 on Sarah Washford's Info Junkie blog

The Power of the Unconference

Interesting report on a youth engagement conference

"I think it was clear it was going to be a good day during the introductions. Around fifty youth workers, technologists and others with an interest in youth participation from as far away as Lancashire, Devon, Norfolk and Wiltshire had gathered at DIUS on a Saturday morning for UKYouthOnline, organised by Tim Davies. With that much enthusiasm and experience in the room, Tim’s gamble on the open space conference methodology was sure to pay off - even if only about a third of the participants had ever attended an unconference before."

http://blog.helpfultechnology.com/2008/09/the-power-of-unconference/

How are young people using social media?

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: social networking youth)

Library Facebook page

Library Facebook page - what to put on it?
By philipbradley
Thanks to Ms Sarah I discovered a really interesting blog post from David Lee King called What can you do with a Facebook Page? He discusses his library's page on Facebook - the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and briefly covers what is included in it and what he'd like to do with it. Great to read, and none of the 'Oh, we don't allow Facebook in our library' rubbish!

Everything you wanted to know about Web 2.0 - Part 2

The next set of training sessions have been organised - they start on 13th October and run through to December. An email has been sent to all staff and you can find details on the Library 2.0 SPS.

A new YouTube from Dr Michael Wesch



An anthropological introduction to YouTube
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