SLA 23 Things Challenge

The Special Libraries Association recently announced the 23 Things Challenge. What is the challenge you ask? And why does it involved 23 things? This initiative is meant to introduce web 2.0 technology to the novice and advanced librarian/info pro. We create a blog to record our experiences with such services as photo sharing, news readers, and mashups. The experience is meant to get info pros thinking about how they can use these technologies and services in their various information settings. As more and more users move to open source collaborative technologies to create and share content and connect with other people we must find ways to meet them in their new information environments.

Since I grew up with information technology I was sort of skeptical of the initiative at first. I've used Blogger, Facebook, and Google Reader among others so I figured I didn't really have anything to learn. Now that I've started using these services I realize there are so many new technologies out there I was only marginally aware of.

Any Gen Y info pros out there participating in SLA's 23 Things?

Do you find that you are learning more about web 2.0?

Will you be able to use these new technologies at your library or information center?

Let me know your thoughts!