Welcome to the RA 2.0 Wiki!

This wiki was originally used to plan the workshop "RA 2.0," presented by Laura Calderone, Sarah Statz Cords, Diana Tixier Herald, and Cindy Orr at the California Library Association conference on October 25, 2007.

What we're hoping to make it now is a discussion wiki on the subject of providing traditional reader's advisory services using 2.0 web and social software tools.  To that end we invite you to explore the wiki; using the Sidebar at right, please feel free to check out various RA 2.0 tools, tips, and links we listed for the workshop, as well as links and tips that were suggested to us by workshop participants.

We also invite you to contribute your ideas, links, and suggestions for RA2.0 projects and tools.  We want this to be your wiki as well as ours; feel free to use it as a clearinghouse for information, as well as a place to store your own links and tricks.  To edit this wiki, simply click on the "Edit Page" button at the top and login using your email address and the password nextgenra.

Our Definition of RA 2.0:

RA 2.0 is the art of using digital tools not only to share information with and advise readers on finding the right book for the right mood, but to collaborate with both colleagues and patrons/readers to create, enhance, and use old and new readers' resources and forums; RA 2.0 helps us create community and address the social aspects of reading by going to where the readers are, as well as inviting them into our organizing, reviewing, and publicizing processes.

Linda Braun, in YAttitudes: "I describe 2.0 as the ability to truly interact with content on the Web. The 1.0 world was all about finding information, reading it, and perhaps printing or copying and pasting parts of the content. 2.0 is all about creating information that others can add to or change or adding and changing something that someone else already created."--

What other RA2.0 definitions have you read or formulated?