Transcript Practical uses for Web 2.0 in a library environment

Using Web 2.0 resources in
your library
Phil Bradley
http://www.philb.com
What is Web 2.0?
• Let’s just not go there shall we?
• Definitions are less important than what
you can do with it
• Oh, if you really insist…
What is Web 2.0?
• Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a
perceived ongoing transition of the World
Wide Web from a collection of websites to
a full-fledged computing platform serving
web applications to end users. Ultimately
Web 2.0 services are expected to replace
desktop computing applications for many
purposes.
– Wikipedia entry
• Web 1.0 was
computer based
• Web 2.0 uses the
web as a platform
• Web 1.0 relied on
installed software
• Web 2.0 uses the
browser
• Web 1.0 was solitary
• Web 2.0 encourages
sharing
• Web 1.0 was
individuals working
alone
• Web 2.0 is
community, sharing
wisdom
• Web 1.0 was data in
one place
• Web 2.0 is the
portability of data
• Web 1.0 was about
consuming (data)
• Web 2.0 is about
creating data
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Weblogs
Photograph sharing
Wikis
Collaborative
resources
– Social networking
– Bookmarking
• Web 1.0 was home
pages
• Web 2.0 is weblogs
• Web 1.0 was tracking
information down
• Web 2.0 is having
information come to
you
• Web 1.0 was badging
your content
• Web 2.0 is getting the
answer out there
quickly
• Web 1.0 was slow
transfer rates
• Web 2.0 is about
broadband
• Web 1.0 was
hardware $s
• Web 2.0 is broadband
$s
• Web 1.0 was getting it • Web 2.0 is doing it
perfect
and moving on
• Web 1.0 was
stationary
• Web 2.0 is mobile
• Web 1.0 was about
limitations
• Web 2.0 is about a
state of mind
Yes… but?
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“It’s vacuous marketing hype”
“Web 2.0 is totally silly”
“Meaningless”
“is made entirely of pretentious self
serving morons.”
• “a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you
by those who are convinced that having
nothing to say is by no means a good
reason to shut up.”
So…
• Is it a question of degrees of difference?
Or…
• A difference of kind? (Is it or isn’t it a fad?)
OK… so how can I use it?
• Weblogs
– Create a library weblog
– Additional or new library resources
– Introduce members of staff
– Use it as a repository of data and information
by using categories and tags
– Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an
important website in its own right…
Weblogs continued…
• Use the weblog RSS feed on the site
home page as a news feed
• Encourage people to add the feed to their
start page or RSS reader
• Create a different weblog for a different
subject area – invite other authors
• Use it in a different way, on a different
page
News reports from the BBC
So what exactly is RSS again?
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Really Simple Search
Rich Site Summary
‘Read some stories’
Newsfeeds
It’s a common way of transferring data
from one resource to another one
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The RSS version:
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Internet searching, web design, search engine developments and anything that will interest librarians!
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president. He'd used his weblog to take a swipe at the country's top Islamic institution. The link goes to...
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'insult'">Egyptian blogger jailed for 'insult'</a>. Abdel Kareem Soliman has been jailed for four years for criticising and insulting Islam and
the president. He'd used his weblog to take a swipe at the country's top Islamic institution. The link goes to the BBC story.</p>
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Current Affairs
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Google charges for web programs
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Google charges for web programs. Well, this is all over the blogs and news at the moment - my link goes to the BBC version of the story.
No great surprise here really; Google is going to start selling a...
<p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6385487.stm" title="BBC NEWS | Technology | Google charges for web
programs">Google charges for web programs</a>. Well, this is all over the blogs and news at the moment - my link goes to the BBC
version of the story. No great surprise here really; Google is going to start selling a premium version of their email, calendar, word
processing and messaging package. It'll cost £27 or 40€ or $50 which includes more storage, phone help and 99.9% uptime (which is
actually downtime of about 9 hours per year if you don't want to work it out yourself) and it'll be advertisement free.</p>
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<p>Google is of course saying that it's not an attack on Microsoft.</p>
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• Each RSS resource has its own URL and
other applications can point to that URL,
gather the data and display it in a different
format.
RSS and search
So, what else can I do with RSS?
• Add to content to webpages
• Add content to a news aggregator
• Add content to a start page
• Keep current with comments and updates
• In conclusion therefore… RSS brings data
to you, and allows you to send it out to
other places.
Using news aggregators
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Such as Bloglines or the Google Reader
Keep up to date
Up to the minute
Create your own searches
Use these to create your own news feeds
Combine these and publish them for users
Podcasts
• Provide access to audio content
• Guides/tours around a library
Podcasts 2
• Content that can’t easily be made
available in other formats
• Content that is accessible on the move
• Not time or place dependent.
Start Pages
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Pageflakes
Netvibes
Collate data into one place
Not machine dependent
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Links
Email
Search engines
RSS feeds
Weather
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Start Pages
Using start pages
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• As a group
– Share tabbed pages
– Alternative to email contact
– To Do lists
– Note pads
– Always immediately available
Bookmarking
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Limited to a specific machine
Not informative
Difficult to find what you want
Inflexible
Cannot easily share bookmarks
What are the alternatives?
• Del.icio.us
• Diigo
• Raw Sugar …
You can:
• Share your bookmarks
– Between computers
– Between colleagues
– Between users
• Create bookmark sets
– To supplement projects
– To assist users
• Annotate (or tag) bookmarks
Great for searching!
• http://del.icio.us/tag/<search_term>
Get an RSS feed automatically
• http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/[insert your tag
here]
Search builders
• Create your own search engines
• Limit to trusted sites
• As small as you want, as large as you
need
• Use the given URL or
• Cut and paste onto your own site
• Use them and then throw them
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Rollyo
Google Custom Search Builder
Eurekster swicki
Yahoo Search builder
And…
• Topicle
• Quintura
Collaborate on knowledge
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Provide content onto a webpage
Items, notes, articles
Links to news or blogs
Search functions
Video options
Let others collaborate
Creating communities
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Zimbio
Flickr
Grou.ps
Plum
Squidoo
Pageflakes
Facebook
Flickr
Squidoo
Facebook
Wikis
Wikis
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LIS wiki
Library success wiki
Wikipedia
Peanut butter wiki
Instant messaging
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“Email is for old people”
Talk instantly back and forth
Share files (or not!)
Share webcam discussions
Group chat
IM from webpages
Create chatrooms
Instant Messenger Services
Using…
• Plugoo
• Gabbly Chat
• Meebo rooms
Collaborate
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On documents – Google docs
On spreadsheets - NumSum
With calendars - Planzo
With training - Jybe
With projects – MyWebDesktop
With To Do lists – TaDaList
With webpages – Conversate
Combine everything!
• With RSS and other Web 2.0 resources
anything can work with anything else
• Content can be changed and manipulated
into different formats that you control
• Users can get involved
• Geography doesn’t matter
• Speed is easy
• It’s not technical!
So why not…
• Create search engines for subject groups
• Get users involved with a Zimbio group on
an aspect of <whatever>?
• Create a Squidoo lens for a subject?
• Start a library weblog?
• Create a flickr group
Or…
• A podcast or a radio station, both involving
music students
• A Pageflakes page that you can share with
colleagues
• Create del.icio.us or FURL accounts and
share them
• Start a wiki for all the librarians in the area
Or even
• Use instant messaging to provide
information in a different way
• Create a book reading club using
LibraryThing, Amazon and a weblog
• Have a library tour on YouTube
Or even
• Create trading cards from Flickr
photographs
• Create fun/interesting new posters
• Set up a Facebook, Bebo, MySpace
account for the library
• Share presentations with Slideshare.net
BUT…
Expect…
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“It can’t be done”
“We don’t have the resources”
“Bandwidth problems”
“Security issues”
“Write a proposal”
“Not your job”
“Not enough time”
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Ignore it! Because Web 2 is
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The way we use the web
The way we use information
The way we find information
The way we do our jobs
The way we interact with people
The way that we look at everything
FOREVER
Final thoughts:
• “Librarians must be like Krishna! And
descend into the world to combat
ignorance!” S.R. Ranganathan
• “The librarian must be the librarian militant
before he can be the librarian triumphant.”
Melvil Dewey
Want more?
Acknowledgements
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Slide 5 http://www.nasa.gov
Slide 7 http://www.bbc.co.uk
Slide 9 http://thederringdos.com/
Slide 9 http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/spiders-web.jpg
Slide 10 http://www.vorkt.com/
Slide 10 http://www.nps.gov/
Slide 11 http://www.tailoredtime.com/
Slide 11 http://www.letsgomobile.org/
Slide 13 http://www.ctp.co.uk/
Slide 13 http://www.hereticpress.com/
Slide 14 http://www.stdmfg.com/
Slide 14 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/
Slide 15 http://www.stainedglassoriginals.com
Slide 15 http://img.thesun.co.uk/
Thank you!
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