Well, I seem to have powered through the last few activities - I think wikis will increasingly be brought into corporate life as well as being applied to organisations such as P & Cs and into schools and higher education.
The online productivity tools are very useful for groups such as sporting organisations where volunteers run the news letters. How useful to have documents that are available on the web and that can be accessed by those who want/need to update contribute. On an environmental note - fewer scraps of paper being sent home as well. An online calendar would be a fntastic asset to to volunteer organisation where members can look up what is on and add activities etc. (I must suggest this to our webmaster for 2nd Abootsford Sea Scouts - at the moment I have several pieces of paper with dates and times stuck to the fridge!)
My kids are into YouTube and as a whole I feel it is quite uncool to want to be as uptodate as the teenagers in your life! However it did give me the chance to see the "Obama Girl" video and Hilary Clinton's spoof of the Sopranos ending!
The Hilary Clinton video
You Tube is quite fun ... could be a way of advertsing the library - A youtube of the SuperLibrarians of the ATO perhaps? faster than a broadband connection...more accurate than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
The Gutenburg project is fantastic and hopefully they are read by fantastic narrators. I can see podcasts changing the way visually impaired people get their information and the range of material available to them must be increasing by the minute. Sometimes technology is a wonderful thing!
In a similar vein, my favourite digital archive for librarians is the Avalon project from Yale Law School - not audio but an archive going back to 44 BC - the aim of this is to archive every important document of the law, history, politics and diplomacy. A fantastically useful site. It can be found at
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
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