The end of another school year leads to thoughts of re-designing blogs, wikis, and websites. Naturally, there is the standard sprucing up; links to prune and backups to save.  Any school year brings changes and growth.

In anticipation that some sites fall to the wayside, this school year I’ve developed the habit to save content and alternative links to multiple online storage sites.  There’s been a burst of semantic tools and I am now a fan of grid design. Perhaps due to my aging Boomer cohorts, I am increasingly aware of accessibility issues. There are goals to improve my writing, posting and social networking skills, even as microblogging and more management of feeds and life streams comes to attention. There are new practices and techniques on others’ sites to test, implement and tweak.

Less concrete components also enter my end-of-school-year reflection regarding online presence. Trends, policies and discussions impacting the future of library service and knowledge work keep shifting.  Recognition of new roles and specialties for knowledge workers within the emerging collective cognitive network or eventual web4.0 has entered consideration; the need to develop work skills for enhancing global social intelligence and collaboration.

With thanks to input from so many online contacts that I value and appreciate, these and additional ideas will be incorporated into my mission, principles, goals and objectives for a fresh start next school year.

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