Second Life is one of those Web2.0 applications I’m eager to try out. There are lots of interesting things happening in SL – tours, author talks, online instruction and reference sessions with librarians, even dog dog parks and dog training sessions. I can buy a SL dog if I want (I found a boxer avatar with cropped ears at SLDogs, but think I’ll see if I can find one with uncropped ears, since that’s the look I like). I’ve had an avatar for a couple of years, but she’s getting rusty from disuse.

I’m also looking forward to Week 7 on Wikis and collaborative portals. I have minimal experience with this type of online collaboration and should learn a lot during the 23 Things exercises.

As for using various Web2.0 tools in my work, I see blogs, RSS feeds, and Delicious as being most useful for now. I’ll have to give a lot more thought to how the other tools would be applicable to what I do – primarily information-based research in the area of health services and health technology assessment.