Librarians Learn Web 2.0Day 2

REVIEW

Homework DiscussionWhat service did you choose?Why?What did you do yesterday on

that service?How can that service be useful to

your patrons?How can that service be useful to

your library?

CONNECT AND COMMUNICATE

OTHER NETWORKS

FriendFeedAggregatorLifestreamingOriginal posts

◦Conversational◦LSW

Badges, widgets and RSSNot as popular/used

LinkedInBusiness/career oriented social

networkingContacts, brain trust!Applications – huddle

workspaces, etc.Bring in Twitter, Facebook,

Slideshare◦Consider what you use those for?◦Personal/Professional Mix

KEEPING UP & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

It’s Not Information

Overload

It’s Filter Failure

Clay Shirky

RSS & BLOGS (CONSUMING THEM)

RSSReally Simple SyndicationMachine-readable codeRequires readers

or other softwareto be human-readable

EVERYWHERE

GOOGLE READER

Google OverlordsLove them or hate them, they

produce some pretty cool stuffOther options – Bloglines(may be

dying, though), Newsgator (may start charging for use soon) or Personal Portals◦Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc.

ChoicesOrganization

◦Daily folder, topical folders (really labels)

◦Interest folders◦Random creativity-inspiring folders!

Navigation◦Keyboard shortcuts are your friend

N – next; P – previous; spacebar – page down OR next feed

◦Trends

Very Cool!!!!

PostRankhttp://labs.postrank.com/grFirefox extension for Google

ReaderFilters “best of” posts in a

particular feed◦# of comments◦# of page views◦Other secret algorithms

Necessary for high-volume feeds

DELICIOUS

Bookmarking in the CloudLike traditional browser

bookmarks – but better◦Available anywhere◦Shareable

Extensions, Bookmarklets available

Networks for sharing

Tagging and BundlingTagging

◦Bottom-up taxonomy◦Whatever makes sense for you

Bundling◦Collecting multiple tags into one

“structure”◦Create complex organizational trees

that are as deep/shallow as you want

WIKIS

WikiWikiWiki = Quick

◦Quick editing/content creationShared, collaborative spaceBasic – MediaWiki

◦Wiki Code◦Wikipedia

Fancy◦Wet Paint Wiki◦PBWiki

THE ENGAGEMENT PROBLEM…

HOMEWORK

HomeworkRead a blog post or two this

weekend (about social networking)

Be ready to share with the class on Monday

Think about what kind of social networking sites you’d like to feature on a webpage◦We’ll find the widgets together on

Monday!!