Specificities

I've explored a few of the individual links, and have mixed feelings, really. Left my notes at home, too, of course, so the following is from memory!
I was surprised by how fascinating I found the Porirua EMO blog. It was entertaining, but also very informative, and I thought it was a real insight into how some of those teams work. And of course if you work in that area, it would also be a great development and communication tool.
The NZMuseums site was also well worth a visit. I loved the idea that there was an online searchable database and listing of so many of NZ's museums and archives. So often it's only the major places that have an online presence, and smaller organisations or institutes are only discovered by accident or word-of-mouth. It's great to have a resource that showcases collections and treasures from all over New Zealand. I think that with some (quite a lot) more input from each organisation , this will turn out to be a very valuable tool, both for professionals and those wanting to research individual items or types of item, but also for interested amateurs and tourists.
For example, my in-laws collect both pcoket watches and napkin holders (yeah, I know!), and I am planning to show them this site, as I know they are fully capable of planning a full vacation around visiting all the museums and collections in New Zealand that have this type of thing on display.

2.0 generalities and musings

It's been a bit of a scramble this week, with sick leave and RDOs and teenagers, so I'm a little behind, and like Pooh, I'm feeling like the hurrier I go, the behinder I get. Still.
I found the Government 2.0 stuff a little dense at first, and it took a couple of read-throughs to see where people are going with it.
Again, as with much of what we are talking about and looking at, it seems great for those people who are already computer literate and engaged fully in the techy stuff. I am still questioning how valid or user-friendly it all is for the great majority, but I guess that can also hold for much of the stuff that goes on at mid- and upper-level management levels in any organisation.
Some of the tools and the way they are being used do seem like they would be very useful. And of course I realised after some little time that even my current MLIS study is utilising some of those tools. Blackboard is an online collaborative space, to some degree, as well as being a virtual classroom tool, and watching my hsuband use a telephone each week to dial in to HIS post-graduate study has reminded me how much easier things are with the new toys we are using.