Web 2.0 and Social Media as Imagination Engines
Filed under: Web 2.0, social media, social networks — Robert Berkman @ 10:00 am

After attending a couple of related conferences this past month, Search Engine Strategies, and Computers in Libraries, one of my big take aways about what’s going on in the really big, big picture is that one really good thing that all of these new technologies and user generated content is doing is unleashing our imagination. And that, of course, is a good thing.

I mean, sure we can have (and do experience) information overload, and today we even have “innovation overload” to some degree with our feeling that we have to find and try out all the countless Web 2.0 tools, widgets and applications being developed.

But imagination is something that we really can’t ever have too much of….