We can use Facebook and the like for local history - encourage patron's, local historical societies, library staff and local historian to interact with each other to increase the knowledge of our local history. We can use these social networking tools to interact with our community and find out what they like, what they don't like and what they would like us to provide. We can also use facebook to communicate with staff from other libraries - see what they are doing, exchange ideas, find out how they deal with various issues etc

I couldn't watch the Google Docs video for some reason. Anyway, I think it would be quite useful to use for our events checklist form which is currently in hardcopy format. It gets filled out and passed along to several people for action and/or approval before it eventually returns to the original person. Using Google Docs will make it easier to track its progress and you won't have to worry about it being lost or buried.

We are in the process of putting together an events calendar for 12 months. We could use mashups to produce a calendar with the events listed to give away to our patrons as part of a promotional tool.

We could use Mashup for children's activities - maybe have them create their own club badges if they join our chess club or summer reading program.

Podcasts would be a way to promote various services as well as any events happening in the library. We can have them in our 6 languages (including English) and promote services/events to members who don't read English. As we don't print promotional flyers (except library guides) in other languages, we can use podcasts to reach our non-English speaking members. We can also use podcasts to record oral history and make them available online as part of our local history collection. It might be handy to have our HSC lectures recorded as podcasts so students who missed out can still have access to the information provided.

An answerboard may be useful as a tool in our library for students to post questions in which library staff, as well as library members can answer questions (but of course not doing the actual homework/assignment). We can put questions to the public about our services or an event we had and get feedback from our patrons - a bit like a survey. I looked at one of the questions someone posted in Yahoo7answers and I must admit I liked the responses that amounted to "Do your own homework" - the person wanted to know what the themes of Macbeth were and what scenes they can be found in.

I like LibraryThing. It is simple to use and is a great tool to find books to read in a similar genre/subject. It is also handy to see what tags other people have placed on a title - you can look for something in an area that you didn't think of. It can be quite handy as a "Who write's like who" type of resource - I'm a fiction person. Non-fiction rarely interests me.