This blog supports the University of Westminster’s 23 Things programme.

23 Things was originally devised by the public library system in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in the United States, which in turn based it on Stephen Abram’s 43 things I might want to do this year.

The aim is to provide library staff with the skills and confidence to use Web 2.0 tools in their work by providing opportunities for individual and shared learning over a relatively short period of time. The programme comprises structured discovery of Web 2.0 services which participants can play with each week and find out how they work and how they might be used in a library context.

Outline of the programme

  • Week 1 – Widgets
  • Week 2 – Become a blogger
  • Week 3 – RSS feeds
  • Week 4 – Photos and images
  • Week 5 – Image generators
  • Week 6 – Catch up week
  • Week 7 – Tag clouds
  • Week 8 – Be a librarian: catalogue content & create a search engine
  • Week 9 – Tagging, folksonomies and technorati
  • Week 10 – Wikis
  • Week 11 – Online applications
  • Week 12 – Podcasts, video and downloadable audio
  • Week 13 – Social networks
  • Week 14/15 – Catch up weeks
  • Week 16 – Final submissions