MaintainIT Project free webinars

I get really excited over free webinars, especially those from the MaintainIT Project.  Two seminars worth signing up for in November:

• Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools and Libraries
  11/3/2008 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Register: http://tinyurl.com/64b2qs
• Discussing Technology with Library Shareholders
  11/6/2008 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Register: http://tinyurl.com/5vgmr8

Picked up from the Blogging Section of SLA-IT.

PICK 20: Canada’s Web 2.0 leaders

The latest issue of Backbone Magazine presents the top 20 Web 2.0 players in Canada. The PICK 20 is “the first and only national roundup of Canada’s Web 2.0 pioneers and practitioners”. Winners were selected via public nomination and a panel of judges comprised of industry practitioners and experts.

The selection process involved dividing Web 2.0 into 4 implementation categories: problem solving, innovation, collaboration, and, knowledge sharing and management.

The PICK 20 Winners for 2008 are as follows:

1. Club Penguin (innovation)
2. FreshBooks (problem solving)
3. ConceptShare (collaboration)
4. Cambrian House (collaboration)
5. Smallthought Systems’ Dabble DB (problem solving)
6. Octopz (collaboration)
7. Open Text (knowledge sharing)
8. Kaboose (knowledge sharing)
9. Standout Jobs (problem solving)
10. NowPublic (knowledge sharing)
11. blogTO (knowledge sharing)
12. Jiibe (collaboration)
13. Something Simpler (innovation)
14. Mob4Hire (innovation)
15. MovieSet (collaboration)
16. b5media (knowledge sharing)
17. SmartHippo (innovation)
18. ThoughtFarmer (problem solving)
19. Protagonize (innovation)
20. Store Ops-Center (problem solving)

You can read more about each winner in the latest issue of Backbone.

web 2.0 books

How many web 2.0 books are there? Lots! Take a look at Phil Bradley’s list.