Transcript Web 2.0 for the solo practitioner

“How to keep up without having to
stay up” Web 2.0 for the Solo
Librarian
James Mullan – Information Officer
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
The challenges for Solo Librarians
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Time
Budget (Resources)
Professional Isolation
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Learning to juggle!
The advantages
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Independence/Autonomy
Flexible Schedule
Variety
Wide Knowledge
No staff (potentially)
What is Web 2.0?
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Web 1.0
Web 2.0
Solitary
Encourages sharing
Relied on installed software
Is Web-based
Was about individuals
Is about communities
Was about consuming
Is about creating
Homepages
Weblogs
Finding information
Information coming to you
What are the key concepts for Librarians?
 Web 2.0 is…
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Collaborative
Focused on content
Web-based
Social
Decentralised
Re-mixable
What that really means!
 The Web 2.0 tools Law Librarians are using are
Social and…
 Provide systems for the sharing of information
and services among individuals and groups…
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Some of the tools available…
 Twitter (Microblogging)
 RSS/Blogs
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Twitter
 A Microblogging tool
 Made famous by celebrity users
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Stephen Fry
Jonathan Ross
Barack Obama
James Mullan
 Several ways to use Twitter
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Searching for information
Information Updating
Following trends
Asking questions
Social Networking
 Tweetbeep and Twilert will email you when Tweets
match your search terms
 Hashtags are used to identify and find content
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#Mumbai
#Bushfires
#UKSnow
#CreditCrunch
More Twitter tools!
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TweetDeck
Twhirl
Twellow
TweetStats
Twist
Twitterverse
Twitterholic
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
 A means by which to “syndicate” content
available on the Web
 Your “radar”
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The benefits of using RSS
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No need to visit websites
Summaries
Reduction in emails
Many media types included
Information becomes discreet
Easy to share
How you could use RSS?
 To monitor Legal and Librarianship Blogs
 To monitor news stories and company
information
 To monitor new legal content:
– Legislation
– Case Law
– Journal Articles
– Know How
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What you’ll need!
 An RSS FeedReader or Newsreader
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Bloglines
Google Reader
FeedDemon
Newsgator
 An RSS Feed!
– Navigate to any website and look for the
RSS icon
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Blogs du Jour!
 Some of the Blogs I follow:
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Binary Law
Enquiring Minds Want to Know
Information Overlord
House of Butter
Jennie Law
The BIALL Blog
The obstacles…
 Your IT Department
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Web 2.0 for the wary…
 …what you need to think about
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Time
Cost
Exposure
Information Overload
The 4P’s
Can I ignore Web 2.0?
No
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Questions/Thoughts
[email protected]
http://www.therunninglibrarian.co.uk
http://www.biall.blogspot.com
http://www.twitter.com/jimmy1712
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