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What We Will Be Covering
• What is Web 2.0?• RSS Feeds and Blogs• Other Kinds of Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0?
• Encourages input from the user• Collaborative and Interactive• Driven by community needs• Combination of and reuse of
applications in new and efficient ways
• Meeting library customers where they already are
Old Web
• Passive• Static content• Top – down approach
New Web
• A site is published on the web, and readers modify it.
• Active.
Challenges
• Evaluation of what you are reading (Information Literacy)
• Security
RSS
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)
• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91).
Blogshttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1189222,00.html?offer=web2.0iq
• “a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. . . a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the Web site that hosts the blog.”
Blogs• Reading blogs• WWW.Bloglines.com
Blogs• Creating blogs• https://www.blogger.com/start• WordPress-free
Microblogginghttp://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/
0,,sid40_gci1265620,00.html?offer=web2.0iq
• Immediacy• Portability• Twitter: "A global community of
friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"
Other Examples of Web 2.0
• Bookmarking • Mashups• Online Office
Tools• Photo Sharing
• PodCasts• Social Streaming
Video• Virtual Reference• Wikis
Social Bookmarking
• Maintain your bookmarks on the web instead of an individual computer
• Share those bookmarks with others
• Give those bookmarks “tags” that enable others to find them
Social BookmarkingNhttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1268406,00.html#introetworking
• Popular versions include del.icio.us, Furl and StumbleUpon.
Mashups
• Avian flu mashup: interactive map tracing the spread of Avian Flu in birds and humans from September 2003 - April 2006.
http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/2006/05/avian_flu_mashu.html
Online Office Tools
• ZOHO• Google Docs• Open Office
Photo Sharing
• flickr• Dotphoto.com
PodCastshttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1189222,00.html?offer=web2.0iq
“A podcast is an audio file published on the Internet with an RSS feed, allowing users to subscribe to automatic downloads of a series of such programs.”
Social Networking
• The practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.
Streaming Videohttp://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/sDefinition/
0,,sid186_gci213055,00.html
• Sequence of "moving images" • Sent in compressed form over the
Internet• Displayed by the viewer as they
arrive.
Virtual Reference
Wikishttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Wiki.html
• A collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors.
How Do I Keep All of this Straight?
• Social Aggregator• Flock• Friendfeed
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Cleo Pappas MLIS, AHIPCleo Pappas MLIS, [email protected]@uic.edu
Rebecca Raszewski, MS Rebecca Raszewski, MS [email protected]@uic.edu