social networking

Ah finally something I have had some practice with, having been a member of facebook for some months now.

You can set up any group you like for example. For libraries I can imagine setting up a group or groups to market activities for a particular library, and for library services-wide promotions. We can have discussion groups for anything we want too. It could be pretty cool. It would have to be regularly updated to remain interesting though, and not everyone who is interested in library doings will have a facebook account and want to create one to find library events.

I wonder who of us would manage an official LSB facebook page, and where does Council and media fit in? I'm sure they will want a say in what we do here.

It would be very interesting to have a debate/discussion on which of these new medias would be the best for us to establish a well maintained presence, that gives us the best exposure, but does not commit us to maintaining multiple web presences, which would dilute our efforts.

Plenty of time for that debate!

online applications

That was super simple. I hope my two collaborators will add something in there too, to show how is that is to do to.

we can already do these things in the work context. Although the library and LHQ have different network drive access we can still generally work on the same copy of a document by agreeing where to save it, and can "share" a document so it can be worked on by more than one person at once.
I think there is a real risk with working on sensitive documents in this sort of context (even if access to the document is limited) but I think this would be very valuable to community groups to create documents such as promotional flyers, newsletters, funding applications and more, and they don't have to have a lot of software to create a great range of material to support and manage their group. And very easy to share it with their group to produce it. And they can access these programs free at their local library if they want ;)

Mashups

Well that wasn't too hard. And a bit of fun. I wouldn't mind creating my own calendar for next year, with images that are meaning to me and my family. I saw some interesting ways to personalise blogs, and other things people use.
I liked the mashup of the universe, with movie snippets about different things in our universe and beyond. We could definitely do something like that for our libraries. Maybe not a video, but a map of Brisbane with a popup with information about the library with a picture of the library would be very cool. Should be possible and interesting without punishing those on dial-up :) I don't think I can use the Big Huge Labs one, as they don't even mention Australia in the list! (but will investigate further).
Cheers for now.