New: Updated FAQs and Help Pages

The FAQs and Help pages have been updated to offer answers to those questions that keep popping up in comments or emails to the Sno-Isle 20 for 2.0 Team.
What’s new in the FAQs:
What do I blog about? Have you wondered whether your blog should just focus on the tasks you are assigned each Monday [...]

#5 RSS and Feed Readers

What’s It All About?

RSS stands for “Real Simple Syndication” It is a web software technology that lets you keep track of your favorite websites. With RSS you can subscribe to webpages, such as news headlines, blog posts, and podcasts. As each page is updated, this information is sent to your RSS Reader

What’s in it for [...]

#4 Instant Messaging

What’s It All About?
Instant Messaging, or IM, is a form of real-time communication where two or more people can carry out a private, instant conversation by typing messages back and forth. To use IM, a user either downloads instant messaging software onto a computer or uses a web-based IM service. The web based [...]

#3 Tracking your progress

Handy Link to the Progress Log
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Well here you are, you’ve made it through 2 of the 20 Things in the Sno-Isle 20 for 2.0 program. Tracking your progress won’t take much time, so you’ve got some time to explore a bit.
Take a few minutes to:
Read some of your colleague’s blogs and leave a [...]

#2 Create a blog and share your thoughts.

Now that you’ve done some exploring around this website and understand how this program will work, it’s time to setup your very own personal blog to begin recording your thoughts, discoveries and exercises.
Blogs seem to be everywhere these days. Political candidates John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton all have blogs. Your local newspaper and [...]

#1 Getting Started

Ready for SIL’s 20 for 2.0? Bravo!
To make the most of your 20 for 2.0 experience, you’ll want to keep a few thoughts in mind:

There are no stupid questions. Really.
Your colleagues are your best line of defense. If you get stuck on any of the 20 Things, there are people all around you who can [...]

Welcome

Today we begin an exciting journey into the world of flickr, mapping, rss, blogs, avatars, and wikis. This is going to be a learning experience for everyone and we hope that it will be an enjoyable one!
Why are we doing this?
The online world is changing faster each day. We need to know what’s [...]

Welcome to 20 for 2.0!

Welcome to the Sno-Isle Libraries 20 for 2.0 Project!
This blog is the home of our staff training program to introduce you to twenty different Web 2.0 concepts. These 20 for 2.0 are new and emerging technologies that are shaping the way people access information, communicate, learn and create. Starting March 1 and running through August [...]