At work, we have had some time set aside for playing with web 2.0 strategies. I went to the first session on Friday. Whilst it is fun to just have a play to see what different things can do - I experimented with avatars and flickr - I couldn't help but feel the blog we were using as a guide, see here, didn't seem to take the power of these strategies into account fully. Whilst it did mention the requirements for using each strategy - such as what systems were needed - so librarians could cater to their patrons needs, the site did not go into how patrons could better harness the power of these strategies for their own requirements.
For example, with flickr, it is a great site for finding source materials. Indeed, I have already used it for my 400-level Advanced Directing paper to provide provocations for rehearsals. I also use it to find creative commons photographs for Critic. With my interests in theatre in mind, it seems like a good website to explore its power for presenting a performance in pictures. Can flickr be used to create such a performance? Or, perhaps, there may be too strong a feeling that performance can still only be done by live, present people.
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