Wikis, Blogs & RSS UNpacked

Using Social Networking to Harness & Publish on the Web

Web 2.0 Information & Discovery SessionAlliah Humber, HUL

Overview

Overview > Web 2.0 / Lib 2.0Social Networking Tools

Blogs WikisRSS

Applying tools to HUL framework

Workshop Goals

To familiarize HUL staff with pertinent Web 2.0 (social networking) concepts and platforms

To enable HUL staff to set-up an account with a social networking service; e.g. blog, wiki, book marking,

To provide hands-on practice with RSS Readers via subscribing to relevant news Web sites

Workshop Objectives:At the completion of the workshop students will be able to:

Effectively use social networking sites to publish information for our users

Use information management tools such as RSS Readers to keep abreast of new information and maintain resources

Behold basic understanding of social networking concepts in preparation of grasping current trends in the profession via CiL2008

What is Web 2.0 > a recap

Part I

So What is the Web 2.0

Term coined by Tim O’Reilly

Second generation Internet-based services

Social Networking Applications

Encourages the sharing of information and collaborative activity among individuals for community building /collective intelligence

What is Web 2.0

Alan Moore, creative business and brand strategist, has a nice definition of Web 2.0…

Web 2.0 is about…

Bringing people, community and business together to

Co-Create value and

Peer production

What does Web 2.0 look like

Web 2.0 and Writing

Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf places it all in context …

Wiki

Part II

What are wikis? http://wiki.org/wiki.cgi?WhatIsWiki

Allows users to create and edit web content

Supports hyperlinks and simple text syntax for creating new pages

Allows you to search between internal pages

Allows open-editing and collaborationbetween subscribed users

Creating wikis

Software: Mediawiki free software originally written for Wikipedia

(app & content resides on your server)

pbwiki free software <http://www.pbwiki.com>(does not require server space)

Need Content

Commitment to learn a new technology

Need a community of participants

Wiki benefits

Reduce redundancy of resources

Encourages interlinking of concepts

Allows multiple edits of the same content

Searchable

Able to measure use

Able to make timely updates

Biz wikihttp://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/

brownfinding wikihttp://brownfinding.pbwiki.com

Laurier Library Intranet Wikihttp://library.wlu.ca/intranet/index.php?title=Main_Page

Stanford University Wikihttp://stanford.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Blogs

Part III

What is a Blog

According to Wikipedia…

“ A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.“

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog>

Blog Features

Dated entries

Mission or goal statement

Posts (written and visual content)

Categories for posts

Archives

Lists of other blogs the author(s) reads

Navigational links

Contact info

Blogging Requirements

Software

Movable Type, Blogger, TypePad, Word Press, …

Time

Something to say

Tips to Maintain a Blog

Blog in small chunks

Blog the way you talk

Get an Aggregator / RSS Reader

Schedule your Blogging

Take note of your Blog ideas

Use Blog tools for effective Blogging

Benefits of a Research Blog

Participate in the dialog

! Faculty > form of publishing, soft peer-review

! Students > Demonstrate to your professor(s) and potential summer employers your:

Knowledge/understanding of a topicResearch processes, Cognitive thinking

Arizona State University Libraries https://librarynews.blog.asu.edu/?triedWebauth=1

Johns Hopkins University Librarieshttp://blogs.library.jhu.edu/wordpress/

Kansas State Libraries: Talking in the Library http://ksulib.typepad.com/talking/

Louisiana State HS LibraryAsk Sassy Systems (internal blog)http://sassysystems.blogspot.com/

Temple University Library Newshttp://blog.library.temple.edu/liblog/

RSS

Part IV

What is RSS

Rich Site Summary

Really Simple Syndication

Automatic Web Browsing

RSS

Simple XML encoded information and news items from Weblogs or news sites

Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information.

Aggregators read the “feeds” and provide current awareness delivered to one location

RSS

How does it work? Every time a site is updated with new content a “feed” (simple

XML encoded information) from that site is sent to an Aggregator / RSS Reader

What is an Aggregator or RSS Reader? Software that hold the “feeds” provides current awareness RSS are delivered to one location

What to Look for:

Syndicate this Site

What is an Aggregator / RSS Reader

Software Client basedServer based

Different aggregators that do basically the same thing

Saves time

Content is syndicated into one place

RSS Reader > Bloglineshttp://www.bloglines.com

RSS Readers

My Yahoo < http://www.yahoo.com>

Google Reader <http://www.google.com/reader>

Bloglines<http://www.bloglines.com>

Database tools & services

Alerts – allow you to centralize resourcesManage subscriptionsNotifications of new search results based on initial

search summary

Email notifications of new results / new information based on a search inquiry saved by the user (you) is sent via email.

Or, an email notification is sent to your RSS Reader (e.g. Google Reader) when a new issue of a journal, you chose is available.

EBSCO Alert Service (journal alert)

Click on link and add to Reader

EBSCO Alert Service (journal alert)

Copy and paste URL into Reader

ProQuest RSS (subject alert)

ProQuest RSS (subject alert)

Click on XML-icon for desired subcategory and select Reader to receive feeds

EBSCOhost (e.g. journal alert in Reader)

Project Muse (journal alert in Reader)

ScienceDirect Services

Create an account in SD to manage and create a personalized setting for better utilization of the database and management of resources

SD Alert Services (all via email):SearchTopicsVolume/IssueCitation

Other Social Networking Tools

Part IV

WorldCat (create an account for better bibliographic management)

“Build and maintain public and private lists of books, videos and other items owned by libraries” within WorldCat

Social networking potential – tag and share found resourcesExport links to resources in your new or existing

del.icio.us bookmark account.

World Cathttp://worldcat.org

del.icio.us (an online bookmaking, categorization, social networking tool)

http://del.icio.us

Zotero (a free bibliographic research tool) http://www.zotero.org/

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] “a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. “

Blogging while Black > Christopher Rabbhttp://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21301/

“ [A] blog’s endemic power comes not from its ability to generate revenues, but is derived from the will and capacity of its readers to coalesce around the sharing, mobilization and analysis of issues the more entrenched institutions do not address. Namely, the issues that have an overwhelming impact on the Black community.”

Let’s try to…

Set-up a Reader Account

Subscribe to a journal from a database

Create an Alert based on search summary

Subscribe to a major online news source

Questions? Comments?

ahumber@howard.edu