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Social Software: A Survey of Web 2-0

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OPAL: Social Software: A Survey of Web 2.0

Presentation by Michael Stephens

notes by Starr Hoffman

6.15.2006


 

 

"Web 2.0"

 

David King on Social Software

 

Paul Bausch on Web 2.0

  • openness
  • decentralization
  • participation

 

Pew Internet Study on Teen Use

  • mashups
  • "Gen C" (C for content)
  • 12-17 year-olds, middle-class and higher
  • what is the library's role in the future?
    • build collaborative spaces for teens & others for content creation

 

Library 2.0 Positions: Wayne State University's "NextGen Librarian" position

 

To Watch: Legislation to Ban Social Software from Libraries

 

Podcasting

  • like a radio program (just in digital format)
  • open source tools
  • enhances library's web presence with multimedia
  • downsides:
    • time-consuming to create
    • limited linking/feedback/indexing

 

Circulating iPods

  • add podcast about the library & its services
  • could be used as a training tool for databases & other library tools
    • good for late hours when there isn't a librarian at the reference desk
  • interviews with library guests
  • booktalks
  • lectures/presentations at a university
  • example library podcast site
  • podcasts are syndicated in RSS
  • search for library podcasts on iTunes to see current presence
  • perhaps offer patrons a space to record their own podcasts

 

Podcasting Legal Guide

 

RSS

  • Really Simple Syndication
  • means publishing content, delivering
  • content you're interested in comes to you
  • aka "automating web surfing"

 

When people ask me what RSS is, I say it's automated web surfing. We took something lots of people do, visiting sites looking for new stuff, and automated it. It's a very predictable thing, that's what computers do -- automate repetitive things.

-- David Winer

 

Aggregators

 

Ideas for Library RSS Feeds

  • news
  • local community events
  • new book lists
  • images
  • assignment alerts
  • new resources
  • podcasts
  • personal RSS feeds

 

Things To Do

  • promote your feeds
  • teach staff about Bloglines & RSS
  • train them to use it

 

Use RSS to Create Personalized Webpage

  • Netvibes
  • it's an RSS portal
  • build a page with news, images, weather reports, blog posts, etc.
  • recent Flickr uploads

 

Wikis

 

Photo-Blogging

 

 

Folksonomy

  • people are learning they can tag things their own way
  • homegrown keywords, instead of formal subject headings

 

Use Appropriate Format

  • wikis good for nonlinear publication
    • also track changes to a document over time
  • blogs are chronological, good for time-related content

 

Librarian Trading Cards

  • would make great business cards / marketing tools

 

Social Networking Sites

  • MySpace
    • has had 270,000 new additions in a single day
    • library account: add its age
    • promote events, link to catalog
  • Facebook
    • for university students
  • Second Life Library

 

Mashups

  • use API (application program interface)
  • pull two sites' info together
  • sharing their database content
  • example: combine info from Google & Amazon
  • Superpatron combined Amazon

and the top holds at Ann Arbor to create:

 

All of these services are FREE (except a pro Flickr account, which is $25).

 

Questions We Need to Ask of Technology (from David King)

  • What does your library plan to offer using this new service?
  • What are the library’s goals for establishing this new service?
  • Can the advertising be minimized by paying a fee or by choosing certain categories?
  • Does the service meet the library’s strategic goals?
  • Who’s going to maintain this new service?
  • And most important: if it's successful - what’s next?

 


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