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.