August 27th, 2006
Jessica the Cool Librarian is closing down her Library Talk forum due to lack of participation. I feel bad about this because I’ve been meaning to register there and start posting, but I simply kept forgetting about it. The thing is, I quite like bulletin board forums. I’m a member of some others (not library-related) and find them to be quite good in terms of facilitating conversations between many participants. Much better than, say, email lists, which I am not a fan of.
I told her I’d try to think of some other ways of building a web community for librarians, a platform that lends itself well to fostering conversations. If anyone else has any bright ideas, she and I would love to hear them.