Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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!