Web 2.0

There is an excellent article concerning Web 2.0 that I think is well worth the time to read.
While primarily written with medical librarians in mind, the information can be applied to any library situation.


Article title: The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education 1
Authors: Maged N. Kamel Boulos & Steve Wheeler
Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 2, Cover Date March 2007
Journal Name: Health Information and Libraries Journal
Click here to go to the abstract of this article in Blackwell Synergy:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x

Interesting Articles

It may be worth your while to check out some very interesting articles found in Blackwell's Synergy.
These take a serious look at virtual communities and online gaming worlds.

Article title: Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang Out Online
Authors: Catherine M. Ridings David Gefen
Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 00, Cover Date November 2004
Journal Name: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Click here to go to the abstract of this article in Blackwell Synergy:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2004.tb00229.x

Article title: Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as "Third Places"
Authors: Constance A. Steinkuehler Dmitri Williams
Volume 11, Issue 4, Page 885, Cover Date July 2006
Journal Name: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Click here to go to the abstract of this article in Blackwell Synergy:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2006.00300.x

Article title: Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities
Authors: Devan Rosen Joseph Woelfel Dean Krikorian George A. Barnett
Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 0, Cover Date July 2003
Journal Name: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Click here to go to the abstract of this article in Blackwell Synergy:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00219.x