Keeping Five Weeks Alive

Watching the course end is a very bittersweet thing. This has been an incredible experience, and I've been blown away to see how much collaboration has gone on within all of your blogs. As you continue on and start implementing some of these social software tools, you may have even more need of a space to reflect on ideas and get feedback from your peers. Why not do it here?

Yesterday, I discussed the idea with my group of keeping the blogs open for you to continue sharing ideas and progress reports on your social software projects. My group seemed very interested in the idea. Drupal and the wiki are living on the server my husband and I run. We both feel like it would be a silly thing to just close this up when an incredible community has formed around it.

What I will probably do is close the community to comments from anyone who does not have an account so that I will not have to check for spam as carefully as I did during the course. Everyone who currently has a participant or presenter account can post and comment on the posts. I will probably leave everything else the way it is unless the chat tool starts doing something weird to the server or something like that.

So please do feel free to continue posting your thoughts, ideas, articles you've found, questions you have, etc. to this space. Hopefully we'll get a good group of people who want to continue on here and make this a thriving community where we can share our progress.

Either way, I plan to contact each and every one of you in a few months to see how things are going with your social software projects and to get any additional thoughts you may have about the course. It'll be interesting to see what an impact this course has had in one week, three months, two years, etc. on you and your libraries.

Thank you all so much for participating in Five Weeks to a Social Library! I have so enjoyed working with you and reading your insightful comments on the blogs. :)