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An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the
Social Web
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So…What is Web 2.0?
• Marketing term (derived from observing 'patterns') rather
than technical standards - “an attitude not a technology”
Characteristics Of Web 2.0
• Network as platform
• Always beta
• Clean URIs
• Remix and mash-ups
• Syndication (RSS)
• Architecture of participation
• Blogs & Wikis
• Social networking
• Social tagging
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Web2MemeMap,
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• Trust and openness
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Blogs
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Blogs
• A blog is a Web log, online diary
• Professionals are increasingly using blogs to describe what
they are doing
• A social phenomenon of the 21st Century
• Key characteristics are openess, collaboration and
syndication
• There is a need for information professionals to:
– Understand blogging and related technologies (e.g. RSS,
Technorati)
– Be able to find resources in the 'Bloggosphere'
– Explore how to use blogs to support business functions
(support users, staff & organisation)
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Why Blog?
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Community of museum, archive or library professionals
Long tradition of sharing experiences and knowledge
New issues – need to find new communities
Blogs can be a timely way to
– Offer advice and commentary
– Make new connections
– Record discussion over time
– Also provide a different view to email discussion threads
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Reading Blogs
• There are lots of
dedicated blog
readers
• You can sign up
for RSS feeds to
be alerted to
changes
• Try not to be
distracted by
adverts etc
http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs
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Bloglines – a Web-based
Blog reader. You are informed of
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last viewed
the
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Library Blogs
• Lots of Individuals creating blogs:
Phil Bradley’s, Peter Scott, Technobiblio, Library Techtronics,
Shifted Librarian, Free Range Librarian, DIY Librarian
• Lots of themed blogs:
Going Green at your library, Librarians for Human Rights,
The ‘M’ Word - Marketing Libraries
• Lots of branch specific blogs:
i Know Gateshead Libraries, Oxford University Library,
Manchester Lit List
• Some subject specialist and medical blogs, moving more
towards library teams
• British Librarian Bloggers list (lis-bloggers)
• Hot Stuff 2.0 – great list of library blogs (over 800) collated
by Dave Pattern
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Museum blogs
• Lots of Individuals creating blogs:
Dan Cull, mjwrites, electronic musuem, Museum blogging,
Fresh and Newer - Powerhouse
• Lots of themed blogs or group blogs:
Liverpool stories, Museum 2.0, Design blog, Kids in
museums
• Lots of specific blogs for a particular museum:
National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery
• Some specific area blogs (e.g for a collection): Natural
History museum conservation blog, V&A’s beach art blog,
Henry VIIIth blog
• Museums Computer Group
• Museum blogs – great directory of museum and museumrelated blogs and aggregator. Sister site to museums
podcasts.
• Culture 24 collates museum details and blog details
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Spineless? http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/
Paige Turner http://swansealibraries.blogspot.com/
The Unquiet Librarian - http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/
British Toy Making - http://www.vam.ac.uk/things-to-do/blogs/british-toy-making-blog/
Fresh and Newer - http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/
Using Blogs
• Blogs are very interconnected with each other (bloggers
discuss other blog postings, blogrolls etc.).
• This can help to provide feedback; measure impact; engage
in discussions; etc.
• Web Monkey extension can give blog comments on your
pages
• Technorati an other real time searches can help find Blog
articles, etc.
• Twitter can automatically post blog updates
• The comments field can allow you to engage in discussions
• Time for you to establish a blog?
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Ideas for Blogs
• A News Blog
– Redevelopment blog, stock areas, user services, service
changes, opening hours, event information
• From the Librarian’s Desk or from the Curator
– Blogging about your daily work, provides transparency
and openness
• Resources Blog
– Special collections, object of the week
• Special Projects Blog/ Task Groups Blog
• Reflective Blog
– Use as a ‘try it out’ experience
• Professional Development Blog
– Chronicle your daily activities, identify progression,
achievements, use it for annual appraisal
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A Few Issues…
• Institutional Issues – e.g. Can you have a corporate voice,
do you want one?
• Technical Issues – e.g. What software will you use?
• Barriers to making the decision to blog e.g. Do you want all
your thoughts to be accessible to all? What about an internal
blog?
• Barriers to getting started
• Gaining momentum e.g. A huge number of blogs are not
read and become deserted by their writers
• Keeping your momentum! e.g. Will you be able to come up
with content?
• Stopping?
• Right person for the job!
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Gaining Momentum
• Participate: embed yourself in the community, social
networks e.g. Ning, Facebook (need to be aware of privacy
issues, ownership of data, dangers of data lock-in)
• Identify and follow other blogs
• Get a great feed reader like Google Reader
• Link, a lot, especially to other blogs
• Comment, and use your URL when you do
• Be fairly shameless in self-promoting:
“I like what you’re saying but over on our blog we’ve taken a
different approach..”
• Spread the URL around
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Keeping Momentum
• Use Technorati, Google Blog search, etc
• Start to embed these in people’s lives by reporting
• Make sure you post regularly, and with high quality:
– Don’t post because you haven’t done one in a while...
– Do post because you’ve got something to say
• If you’re losing momentum, maybe there’s a reason?
• Do some evaluation of your blog: ask readers
• Look for co-authors. Guest posts. You may be surprised!
• if it’s getting stale, try some alternative approaches:
– Interviews, podcasts, surveys or polls
– Video or other media embedding, live blogging
• ...be creative, and copy other people
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Wikis
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Wikis
• Wikis are collaborative Web-based authoring tools –read
state and write state
• They can be used for:
– team work and collaborative papers (avoiding emailed
MS Word file around)
– Note-taking and social discussions at events
– As an easy way to set up a group Web site
– A great e-learning tool
• Uses a simple markup language (wikitext or wikisyntax)
• Ability to compare previous versions of a page, revert back
and track who edited the page
• Many allow users to discuss issues prior to making changes
• Increasing popularity in the public sector
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Wikipedia
• Easy to create
• Provides high-profile
information (Googlefriendly)
• Allows the
community to
enhance and
develop content
• Is time your library
had an entry?
• Who will edit it?
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Wiki Issues
• Vandalism, spam
• Wiki etiquette
• Searching (more tagging needed), archiving (ephemeral),
organisation of pages – no heirarchy
• Mark up – no standardisation…yet – training implications
• Stopping your wiki from becoming an unmaintained
storehouse of out-of-date information!
• Organisational Culture - Freedom to move away from usual
design, protocols, habits
• Resources - Staff training, time, costs
• How will librarians add wikis and blogs to their collections?
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Wiki’s Potential
“At their best, they can become true community resources that
can position the library as a an online hub of their local
community”
Meredith Farkas
• Reviews of collections, objects or books, FAQs
• Comments section, suggestion box
• Commonly asked questions (reference or general)
• Local history, personal stories
• Course collaboration, e-portfolios
• Project work, input for research work
• Workshops
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Social Web
Social Networks
• Sharing and community are what Web 2.0 is all about
• Some of the most famous networks are MySpace, Facebook,
del.icio.us, Frappr and Flickr
• ‘Library, ‘museum’ and ‘archive’ are social network in
themselves so the implications are huge
• Tagging – allows users to add keywords to items
– Created by groups/communities who are the resource users
– Natural language – common understanding
– No hierarchy, feedback
• RSS Feeds
• Library 2.0 Ning group, Library 2 Wiki
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Sharing - Flickr
• Web 2.0 includes
community-building
• You can help support
your communitybuilding by making it
easy to share photos at
events (e.g. this
seminar)
• Simply suggest a tag
and encourage
delegates to upload
their photos with this
tag
• Flickr Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westmontlibrary/176505152/
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Flickr and Museums
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• Example of a museum
making using Flickr:
– Content
embedded on
organisation Web
site
– Use of rich 3rd
party user
interface
– Content also
surfaced content
in places people
visit and comment
– …
Web 2.0
Sharing – Delicious
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• Another aspect of
sharing is sharing
bookmarks
• This can be used to:
– Manage your
bookmarks
– Allow others to
contribute resources
– Allow lists of
bookmarks to be
repurposed
– Carry out impact
analysis
Who
else has bookmarked this resources? What are their interests?
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Sharing - Slideshare
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• Many other resources
can be shared e.g.:
• Slides
• Photos
• Maps
• Video
• Travel info
• Events info
• Music
• Etc.
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Openness
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauri_lama/3039881498/
Web 2.0
Mashups
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/
workshops/webmaster-2007/maps/
http://www.talis.com/tdn/competition
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• Web 2.0 provides
valuable opportunity
to provide mapping &
location services:
– Embedding
Google maps on
your Web sites
– Developing rich
services using this
– Providing location
metadata /
microformats
which can be
processed by
simple browser
tools
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Google Maps
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/
http://northumbria.ac.uk/browse/radius5/
workshops/webmaster-2006/maps/
• Google Map ‘mashup’
used for IWMW events:
– ~ 20 lines of
JavaScript.
– Code taken from
Google Maps Web
site and coordinates
added
• More sophisticated
mapping applications are
being developed, such as
Radius 5 at Northumbria
Univ.
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Location Metadata
http://geourl.org/near?p=http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/
web-focus/events/workshops/archivists-2008-03/
• Location metadata can be
used by various applications
• Wouldn’t it be great if when
we go to a Web site:
– We can easily find nearby
hotels, pubs and other
useful information
• And:
– Organisations made their
location data available for
others to reuse
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Creative Commons
Openess is a key aspect of Web 2.0: open
source; open standards and open content can
all help to bring benefits through maximising
usage
of services
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• Creative Commons
offers copyright
holders licences to
assign to their work
• The licences aim to
clarify the conditions
of use and avoid
many of the problems
current copyright laws
pose when attempting
to share information.
• CC maximises impact
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Facebook
• The Facebook platform
provides access to (a) Skype
(b) Twitter micro-blogging
• Facebook:
– A social networking
Web site
– Had the largest number
of registered users
among college-focused
sites with over 30
million members
worldwide
– Ranked between top
10–20 Web sites
service (c) mini-questions
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Facebook and Museums• Example of a
museum making
using Facebook:
– Surfacing
content in
places people
visit
– Allowing
visitors to be
‘fans’
– Easy to access
on mobile
devices
–…
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Podcasts
• Podcasts are syndicated
MP3 files
• New items in a podcast
http://www.podanza.com/podcast/... can appear automatically
in your Podcast client
(e.g. iPod) or RSS reader
• Resources can be
accessed via iTunes
The University of Bath won a European award for its podcasts from guest
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lecturers,
etc. We can regard this as maximising impacts of the ideas and
promoting
the University,
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Communication
http://www.gabbly.com/
• Realtime discussion is
a key part of the Web
2.0 and the .net
generation (IM, SMS…)
• Can be used by
patrons, chat reference
services with transcript
• How much effort does it
take to provide an
instant messaging
service for your library?
• Try Gabbly.com
• What about Skype?
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Not just your Users..
• Social Web isn’t just for
visitors – it’s also used to
support communities of
practice:
– Blogs/RR
– Twitter
– Wordle
– Bookmarks
– …
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Micro Blogs
Twitter
• Twitter:
– Best known of the microblogging applications
– Web application, with
desktop & mobile clients
• Uses:
– Community-building
– Support from your peers
– Answers to questions
– Conferences (#cilip)
– Ideas
– Marketing
– …
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Twitter – Delivering a Service
• The Historic Royal Palaces use
Twitter for Henry VIII’s 500th
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– picked up by the
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Telegraph
Twitter & User Engagement
• Museums & heritage bodies are
now following tweets and
responding.
• Being user-focussed & innovative
or spooky?
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Safe Experimentation
• Are you interested in using Web 2.0 in your organisation?
• Worried about corporate inertia, power struggles, etc?
• What you need is a deployment strategy:
– Addressing business needs
– Low-hanging fruits
– Encouraging the enthusiasts
– Gain experience of the browser tools – and see what
you’re missing!
– Staff training and development
– Address areas you feel comfortable with
– Risk management strategy
– …
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Some Low Hanging Fruit…
http://www.librarything.com/
• Librarything provides a good
example of a Web 2.0
service:
– Catalogue your books
– AJAX interface
– Exploit data provided by
the community
– Export capabilities
– Other books you may like
– Implications for reader
recommendations
– …
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Netvibes! (or similar)
• Suggestion:
– Signup (for free)
– Import RSS feeds
for your areas of
interest
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form a few mailing lists!
Use Your Mobile Devices
• Understand mobile technologies using
devices you own:
– If you’ve got a smart phone or WiFi
device use it to gain an understanding
of the potential
– If you’ve got a Vodafone contract, you
can have Twitter posts delivered to
your phone for free
– If you’ve got a portable MP3 player,
you can listen to podcasts while you
are on the Tube
• If you haven’t got an iPod Touch, ask
for one for your birthday 
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Create RSS Feeds
• You may have a
home page like this:
– About the
organisation
– Key links
– News items
• Your news items
are important –
• content that
changes
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news available as RSS? If it isn’t it is trapped inside your Web
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site  NB
blog software can be used to create RSS
Check Your Wikipedia Entry
• Check your Wikipedia
entry:
– Is it accurate?
• Check you have an – Is it appealing?
entry in Wikipedia –
• Check the history of
if not, you are
the entry:
probably missing out
– When was it
on Web traffic
created?
– How has it
changed?
• What did the original entry say?
– How long might this have been the first thing
Google
users saw?
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– MightA this
have
been counter-productive?
Get a Facebook Page
• It is simple to create
a Facebook group
page for your
museum
– Popular area
– Syndicate
content
– Engage with
users
• But remember other
issues:
– Users
– Sustainability
– Work flow
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Learning From One’s Peers (1)
http://www.devonmuseums.net/...
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devonmuseums.net provide an
interactive map showing the
location of museums in the
area.
Very easy to create using
Google maps
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Learning From One’s Peers (2)
http://www.finds.org.uk/CCI/
• The Celtic Coin Index
illustrates use of a Web 2.0
approach:
– AJAX to remember
typed input
– Links to popular Web 2.0
services
– User engagement
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Other Ideas
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RSS feeds, create them and use them
Wikipedia
Secondlife, Cybrary city
Slideshare
Bookmarks - del.icio.us, citeulike, connotea
Librarylookup – Library mashups
Folksonomies – different ways of organising information
YouTube – video, streaming of video
OPACs - Think of your library system as “an interlocking set
of functional components rather than a monolithic black box”
– Plinkit (Public Library Interface Kit)
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