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Overview:
Introductions Brief intro to Web 2.0
Blogging: Brief overview of what we are doing and blog/social networking choices
Fun stuff:
flickr (image hosting)
del.icio.us (bookmarking + tagging)
YouTube (video hosting)
Widgets (snapshots, meebo, twitter, etc.)
RSS feeds (technorati, pageflakes, etc.) +Mashups
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A little more about Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 technologies provide an easy way to store, describe,
share, discover, organize and create information in a way that
makes sense to user
Web 2.0 is collaborative
·Web 2.0 technologies provide an ease of use (little or no coding
experience needed)
Web 2.0 facilitate discovery (e.g., the ability to share, recommend,
or discover resources from other users)
Power to the people!
So, how can libraries tap into this?
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Blogging:
One of the easiest way to tap into Web 2.0 technologies is through
the use of blogging. We have been blogging since January 2005.
We use Wordpress (open source software) hosted on the libraries
server
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·A little about Wordpress
Wordpress
Advantages/Disadvantages
Customizing
Wordpress MU
How it differs from regular Wordpress
Advantages/Disadvantages
What if you can’t host a blog?
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Blogging:
Free choices hosted elsewhere:
Blogger
Wordpress.com
TypePad
Why would you want to blog?
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Blogging
Reasons to Blog/social network:
PR/Marketing
Subscription via RSS feeds; also ability to embed content
into other websites (pageflakes etc.)
Ease of updating website
Instant updating/editing
Provide a more informal “face” to the library
Push out content to users, i.e. be in their space
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Blogging:
Guidelines & writing style sheets
Finding contributors
To comment or not to comment
High ranking pages in Google
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The Fun Stuff
Image hosting (free) - Flickr
Free and easy to use
Paid accounts have more privileges, but free accounts can get
the job done
Uses for blogging and websites
Flickr toys (slideshows, etc.)
Networking
Creative commons/licensing
Find graphics and images for use
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flickr
Libraries/librarians doing neat things
with flickr
•LibraryMan (Michael Porter)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman
•Dewey Graduate Library - University
at Albany
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ualibraries
•NCSU Libraries Special Collections
Research Center
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc/
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Image hosting - Flickr
Fun stuff to do in your blog or website
with flickr
Slideshows
Flickr badges
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Social bookmarking – del.icio.us
Free and easy to use
Uses for you or your library
Centralized storage of resources/links lists in del.icio.us
Easy to update – no coding necessary
Bookmarks travel with you – never lose them!
Resource sharing and Discovery (recommend links, find
popular links by tag, etc.)
Private or shared
Pathfinders/guides for individual classes
Bibliographies
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Social bookmarking – del.icio.us
Uses for websites and blogging
Del.icio.us toys (links list, tag
clouds, etc.)
Networking
Resource sharing and discovery
Easy maintenance of links lists
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Social bookmarking - del.icio.us
Nashville Public Library – TeenWeb
http://www.library.nashville.org/teens/teenweb.asp
College of New Jersey – Italian Studies Pathfinder
http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html
UGA Libraries
Cataloging Resources
Weird & Wacky Web Watching
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Video hosting (free) – YouTube
Free and easy to use; accepts most formats; no need to
convert!
Videocasting
Provides easy way to get videos on the web
Embed into blog posts
Is now owned by Google
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Video hosting – YouTube
Uses
Embed videos in blogs, presentations, websites, etc
Storage space (no need to store large size videos on server)
Networking
Resource sharing and Discovery
Videocasting
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Video hosting – YouTube
•Day in the life of the Library St. Joseph County Public Library
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=vrtYdFV_Eak
•Installing a new OS on library
computers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nWIrxuF5NSo
•Why do NJ patrons love their
libraries?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZeQI25n8qPQ
•Guide to the library – from
Williams College
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=i-t0LHnw-fc
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Wonderful world of widgets
What is a widget?
Widgets are just little tools which are
generally easy to install in a user interface.
Widgets can be embedded in blogs and websites
(snapshots, flickr toys, etc.), downloaded for use
on the desktop or on a mobile device. Blogger and
wordpress are both utilizing widgets more.
Pageflakes, a free web based service, uses
widgets to put the page together. Pageflakes
widgets include RSS feeds, flickr, and even static
webpages.
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Wonderful world of widgets
Widgets make it easy to embed third party content
(flickr, YouTube, etc.) or even code into websites with
little or no coding experience. Widgetbox is an excellent
resource!
Widgets are frequently drop n drag or copy and paste.
Examples of widgets to embed in websites: flickr
slideshows, YouTube movies, snapshots, links lists, etc.
Pageflakes and netvibes are two widget based
services
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Meebo provides a
single interface to
AIM, Yahoo, MSN
Chat
Meebo widgets are
embeddable
> Meebo in action
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Snapshots provide a
popup preview of
links.
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A little about RSS feeds
What are RSS feeds?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
RSS provides an easy way for users to find and subscribe to
information. Makes content portable to other web pages.
Feedburner
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A little about Mashups
What is a Mashup?
In web terms, a mashup
takes content or data from
different sources or services
to create a new thing
An example of a mashup is
Flickr Maps which uses both
images from Flickr and
Google Maps
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Resources
Web 2.0 Minipresentation:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dkcxvp2_7d7ms9d
Web 2.0 movie:
This presentation:
Slideshare
Del.icio.us
Handouts at googledocs
Contact:
Amy, [email protected]
Robin, [email protected]
http://www.robinfay.net
[email protected]
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Thank you…..
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