flickr and SecondLife

I found the presentations this week especially interesting, but don't believe that the technologies would "fly" at my library.  We have so many staff members who are adverse to having their pics posted on our library website, that flickr with its emphasis on photos doesn't seem like a good fit for us.  Except for headshots of three-four staff members who have agreed to having their picture posted with our "Ask a Librarian" feature, the few photos of staff events that we've archived are posted on the staffweb behind a login and deleted within a month or so or distributed via email.  I don't know if folks are just generally "camera shy" or truly don't like the idea of pictures of themselves being available to anyone on the web.  We could post pix of our new building in progress, but we have a live web cam for that which is linked off the main site, so I don't think that flickr will be at the top of our implementation list for technology.

Second Life is fasciniating and looks like a lot of fun.  Our educational technology librarian has actually been trying to generate interest in Second Life for a couple of months now ever since she saw it in action at a conference, but without any success.  Perhaps it is a better fit for public and school libraries than for academic ones, but I'm betting our college students would love it as a learning tool.  Second Life will go on my list to investigate further, especially since I already have a colleague that's interested.