What is the program?

The DCPL Staff goes 2.0 is a self-directed independent study course in social web tools and technologies. We will be learning 20 2.0 technologies. The Every week, participants are asked to try out 2 to 3 Things, each one a different piece of the 2.0 world -- blogs, wikis, RSS, photo & video tools, comments, tagging, online applications and more. Each person that completes the 20 Things, will receive time off as approved by their manager. Full time people (40 hours) will receive 4 hours, 20 hour positions will receive 2 hours.

The objectives of this program are to:
1. Encourage staff to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society and libraries access information and communicate with each other.

2. Give participants a structure in which they can play with these tools supported by their peers

3.Support the Daviess County Public Library missions of improved customer service by helping staff become more familiar with the web tools their patrons use

4. Reward staff participation for self-directed learning

This site will serve as an information archive for administrative notices, detailed instructions and other extra bits linked to from the main program blog as needed. DCPL Staff goes 2.0 is not the first library to experiment with 2.0 technology. This program is modeled on the Learning 2.0 Program from the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. Visit the original site for examples of similar programs.


Over the course of the next nine weeks, this website will highlight “20 Things” and discovery exercises to help staff become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites.To familiarize yourself with this project, be sure to read the About page. The FAQs should answer most of your questions about this program. If not, then please add your question to the FAQ page as a comment.

A note about the date on this post: Blogs are designed to display entries in reverse chronological order, with the most recent entry on top. I am trying to figure out how to keep this post on the top. Until then, Try the archives.