CLSIG - Web 2.0: the truth behind the hype

17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Photo: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1170467 Copyright PAUL FARMER and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Web 2.0 - the truth behind the hype: What is web 2.0 and what isn’t it? Karen Blakeman, www.rba.co.uk , [email_address] www.twitter.com/karenblakeman , www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman

What does Web 2.0 tools mean to you? 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Ditch the Web 2.0 label! Think about…..

Sharing knowledge with colleagues

Keeping up to date with new developments

A more efficient way of collaborating on articles, documents, policies, contracts, conference programmes, training materials

A quick and easy way of providing information to your users and clients through different platforms, applications and devices

Establishing new contacts

Reputation monitoring – what are people saying about your organisation, its services, its products?

Marketing and promoting your organisation’s and your own skills and expertise

Moving, re-using and republishing “stuff”

17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

RSS for publishing, re-distribution, sharing

RSS feed creation in CMS

Feeds automatically generated by blogs, Flickr, Slideshare, YouTube,Twitter, publishers

RSS feed writers e.g. FeedForAll.com, RSSPublisher.com

Add RSS feeds to your blog, iGoogle, Netvibes, Facebook etc using widgets, gadgets, applications, ‘stuff’

Convert RSS feeds to HTML for your web site

for example Feedburner

http://feedburner.google.com/

Combine feeds using

for example Yahoo Pipes, http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

Friendfeed http://www.friendfeed.com/

Feeds for keeping up to date 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Set up a start page pulling your services, content and alerts together http://www.netvibes.com/ukeig1 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Add news and updates to your web site, blog, Facebook page, LinkedIn etc! 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Promote your skills and expertise

http://ergobalance.blogspot.com/

Blogpulse Trends – companies, products, reputation 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Shows how often your search terms occur in postings – can compare up to three searches

Twitter for news, keeping up with colleagues, events 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Flickr.com 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Add presentations to your web site, blog, Facebook, LinkedIn 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Advertise your services: BestforBusiness Birmingham 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXs1scj9Xx4

Friendfeed

Combine feeds for blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare, Library Thing, LinkedIn, Facebook, alerts ……..

Wikis

UKeiG Web 2.0 blog – Wiki category

http://ukeig.wordpress.com/category/wikis/

Wikis that work in the real world

http://tinyurl.com/a32rnf

Wikis for training materials and conference organising

http://swashford.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/wiki-wonders/

Wikis for compiling subject guides

http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/01/09/we-have-wiki/

A free surgical encyclopaedia for surgeons and their patients

http://wikisurgery.com/

Using a Wiki for an Intranet - Janssen-Cilag, switched from a static HTML site to using a wiki.

http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/09/18/enterprise-wiki-increases-collaboration-and-connections-at-janssen-cilag/

http://interlend.pbwiki.com/ 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Geograph British Isles 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

http://tinyurl.com/lyosy4 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

#uksnow Tweets - http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/

9.55 am 2 nd February 2009

Google Earth & Twitter

hashtag #uksnow

Twitterers asked to include first half of post code and give the snowfall marks out of ten e.g. #uksnow RG4 3/10

CABI Alerts - Monitoring Worldwide SWINE FLU Information http://www.netvibes.com/cabialerts (maps no longer updated) 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Personal and professional networks 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

Which collaborative tools will work for you? 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk Feedback from participants at a Web 2.0 workshop. The same one day workshop was delivered to three separate groups of people (mostly public sector and academic librarians) over a two week period Day 1 Day 2 Day3 Yes Start pages, tag clouds e.g. Wordle for analysing documents, Twitter, Flickr, LibraryThing, YouTube, blogs, wikis, podcasts, presentation sharing Tag clouds e.g. Wordle for analysing documents, Twitter, Flickr, Google Reader (for RSS), Google maps, presentation sharing, podcasts RSS, wikis, shared calendars, social bookmarks, presentation sharing, sharing screencasts (Camtasia), start pages, Google maps, Twitter Maybe Podcasts, Twitter, YouTube, presentation sharing, social bookmarks, Facebook LibraryThing (for book clubs), Facebook (for short term campaign and discussions), wikis, YouTube Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LibraryThing, No Social bookmarks, Twitter, YouTube Twitter, Second Life LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, tag clouds, Flickr “ You cannot be serious!” Twitter, Google Docs/Apps LinkedIn Second Life, Twitter, Facebook

Can anything go wrong?

Of course it can!

Carry out a risk assessment – what would the consequences be if…

Brodkin, Jon. "Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks” http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/02/Gartner_Seven_cloudcomputing_security_risks_1.html

It can be exciting! 17 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk