Monday, July 30, 2007

Week 6 # 15 Just a few thoughts about Web 2.0

This is some what of an aside from tennis, but I wanted to let you know how and why this blog came to be. This blog has come about from a library project called Maryland Libraries 23 Things. For nine weeks librarians throughout the state of Maryland are currently creating blogs on various topics of interest in order to explore Web 2.0.

I was reading an article by Chip Nilges of OCLC, OCLC developed the WorldCat. WorldCat is a catalog capable of locating library materials throughout the world. The developing philosophy at OCLC is to use Web 2.0 as a means of harnessing collective intelligence, cooperative sharing, reaching out to the world. Their mission is gathering knowledge and spreading it to the world.

As tennis players we might want to use a similar approach and bring tennis on par with golf, no pun intended.

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