Just before I finished library school, I joined a Yahoo group to study for my comprehensive examination. That was the smartest thing I have ever done. So even though I had done my entire degree online, I developed a close sense of community with the others in the last six months--a feeling, I am sure, born of the extreme terror of flunking the comprehensive exam and wasting two years of classes. By the time I went to Milwaukee to take the exam, I felt I knew a lot of the other students because of our shared terror. So I really like the idea of interest based groups. You start out with something in common. I have also used Web Junction which I think is a great resource for learning about all kinds of library related topics.
Ning is really easy to use and I like the interest groups it has. I have bookmarked some that I really want to delve into more deeply. I am especially interested in the Academic Libraries and Library 2.0/Web 2.0 group because it looks like it gets into some of the technical issues of Web 2.0.
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