Teaching others

As I mentioned in my posts on Flickr & wikis we are working together to teach other branch staff about Web2.0. Teaching, of course, is always harder than learning. Harder still was the fact that I had planned on teaching very basic lessons. Basic - not with our staff. In both cases they had already gone to the links on 23things. Flickr was particularly hard:
"How do I send things to friends who aren't Flickr members yet?"
"What do you do to put those picture collages on the side of your blog?"

This was really rewarding. None of the staff are technophobic or new to the Internet, but only a few weeks before they had been at the stage of "Start a blog I'm not sure that I can do that."
Now it's, "Do you think that I should Del.icio.us or Bloglines for this?"

Web 2.0 sure is empowering!

Podcasts

Could there be anything more appropriate than a podcast on the iPhone? I like pocasts - there like radio on demand and pretty simple to use.

As I wrote in my entry on Youtube my son considers iTunes a vital web resource. The first time I used it to subscribe to a podcast he came to me saying, "There's this new thing on iTunes and I swear, I swear, that I did not download it! I don't know how it got there!" He was relieved to hear that I was the culprit for this new thing and his access to iTunes downloads would not be cut off (although he'd sure like to download more videos).

Yahoo's podcast site seemed to feature podcasts that were 3 or 4 months old. I couldn't always get them to play or find information on how to troubleshoot problems. Wikipedia's entry on podcasts is very helpful as is the directory of podcast directories on castwiki.