Time is on my side: What could you do on the web in 30 minutes per week?

We don't normally do 'hey, look at this interesting link' posts on LibraryTechNZ; we're more given to the occasional, but well researched, deeply considered and carefully crafted.

Today though I have 10 minutes and so - hey, look at this interesting link! How much time does Web 2.0 take? by Nina Simon is getting a bit of an outing round the blogs today, and it's worth it.

Nina's looking at the people-time cost of engaging online. She offers up a range of suggestions for what you could do given certain amounts of people-time per week:

1-5 person hours each week - become a participant

Leave comments on Flickr, run a Twitter feed, set up a Friends group on Facebook

5-10 hours per week - become a content provider

Blog or podcast

10-20 hours per week - become a community director

More complicated projects, which to me seem to include quite a lot of research and development time (cp. blogging, where set-up is not the time-consuming bit).

Nina's post could be really useful if you're trying to choose which part of the Web 2 waters you want to dip your toe in - definitely recommended reading.

Got a spare 5 minutes a day?

My top tip would be to set up some RSS feeds of Technorati tags and Google Blog Alerts, using the name of your institution / website / blog / exhibition / service / product as the keyword. Then every day, try to respond to or act on something you see being said online (remembering that not everyone wants to hear from you).

What would you do?