Via the Mashable! blog comes word of yet another new Web 2.0 application, called Mobber. The idea for this is to enable you to see who is on a particular webpage, and to chat with that person or persons in real time. Could this kind of service be used in libraries to more directly engage those many anonymous library users who increasingly visit the library only via the library’s website? Just take one example: this would be a huge improvement over simply sticking in a link or graphic to a typical Ask-A-Librarian chat/email service.
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This has the potential to allow people to volunteer for their local library without physically being there. This is something I’d consider doing. If I could run a chat application in the background on my computer throughout the day, making me available to answer questions or help visitors search the site, I probably would.
Ed, this is an intriguing idea. I hope some enterprising library picks up this idea and tries it.
It does look like an interesting “find” but I’m still having a little problem just understanding it. I joined the site and got the coding for it and if I’m guessing correctly I can take that code and put it on one of my sites and people could chat amongst themselves – do they have to join the site in order to chat?