What uses can you think of for virtual worlds within your own organization?

What types of custom search engines would you like to create and why?

I aggregated and added some new information from other Anthropology search widgets.

Here is my social cataloging profile.   I used Library Thing.

http://www.librarything.com/profile/mmabbett

Here is my FB account. 

I was just talking with a friend about Facebook and MySpace and he likened them to web pages.  I was saying that I wasn’t really that impressed and that they seemed awfully intrusive.  And more importantly, I wanted to know where he thought these things were going?  He said that people probably thought similar things of websites a decade or so ago.  Everything now has its own website and most probably have an SNS presence.  Can libraries or companies really afford to miss this opportunity to get to folks?

What obstacles might there be in adopting media sharing in libraries?

Here are the links to some cool stuff I favorited.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/26144250@N04/favorites/
 

http://www.youtube.com/user/mtmabbett

BTW-I really like the Chaser's.

What advantages to social tagging do you see for libraries?

I played with CiteULike and it was really interesting.  One of my ongoing interests is looking at the idea of overload.  The problem is not getting to content it is sifting through it and getting good stuff.  A quick tag search found some other individuals and groups that are looking at information overload.  I was able to follow their citations and find some interesting review articles and such.  I also found that I could ask to be a connection to various people, making a research network.  

Here is my wiki: http://ucbanth.wetpaint.com/