Cilipbuilding

Practical uses for Web 2.0 – an overview Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com

What is Web 2.0?
Let’s just not go there shall we?
Definitions are less important than what you can do with it
Oh, if you really insist…

What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are expected to replace desktop computing applications for many purposes.
Wikipedia entry

Yes… and?
It’s a platform
It harnesses collective intelligence
Data can be used and re-used in many ways
Users are directly involved with development
It’s not limited to a single device
A rich user experience
Tim O’Reilly ‘ What is Web 2.0?’

Yes… but?
“ It’s vacuous marketing hype”
“ Web 2.0 is totally silly”
“ Meaningless”
“ is made entirely of pretentious self serving morons.”
“ a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you by those who are convinced that having nothing to say is by no means a good reason to shut up.”

So…?
The Web as a platform
Collective intelligence
The end of the software cycle
Major change in the way we look at things
Old wine and new bottles?
Generic term applied to a variety of resources
Web 2.0 is not a ‘thing’ – it’s a state of mind

Web 2.0 is not a thing – it’s a state of mind

OK… so how can I use it?
Weblogs
Create a library weblog
Additional or new library resources
Introduce members of staff
Use it as a repository of data and information by using categories and tags
Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an important website in its own right…

Weblogs continued…
Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home page as a news feed
Encourage people to add the feed to their start page or RSS reader
Create a different weblog for a different subject area – invite other authors
Use it in a different way, on a different page

News reports from the BBC

RSS and search

So, what else can I do with RSS?
Add to content to webpages
Add content to a news aggregator
Add content to a start page
Keep current with comments and updates
In conclusion therefore… RSS brings data to you, and allows you to send it out to other places.

Using news aggregators
Such as Bloglines or the Google Reader
Keep up to date
Up to the minute
Create your own searches
Use these to create your own news feeds
Combine these and publish them for users

Podcasts
Provide access to audio content
Guides/tours around a library

Podcasts 2
Content that can’t easily be made available in other formats
Content that is accessible on the move
Not time or place dependent.

Start Pages
Pageflakes
Netvibes
Collate data into one place
Not machine dependent
Good for:
Links
Email
Search engines
RSS feeds
Weather
Etc…

Start Pages

Using start pages
Individually
As a group
Share tabbed pages
Alternative to email contact
To Do lists
Note pads
Always immediately available

Bookmarking
Limited to a specific machine
Not informative
Difficult to find what you wan
Inflexible
Cannot easily share bookmarks

What are the alternatives?
Del.icio.us
Diigo
Raw Sugar …

You can:
Share your bookmarks
Between computers
Between colleagues
Between users
Create bookmark sets
To supplement projects
To assist users
Annotate (or tag) bookmarks

Great for searching!
http://del.icio.us/tag/<search_term >

Search builders
Create your own search engines
Limit to trusted sites
As small as you want, as large as you need
Use the given URL or
Cut and paste onto your own site
Use them and then throw them

That would be:
Rollyo
Google Custom Search Builder
Eurekster swicki
Yahoo Search builder

Collaborate on knowledge
Provide content onto a webpage
Items, notes, articles
Links to news or blogs
Search functions
Video options
Let others collaborate

Creating communities
Zimbio
Flickr
Grou.ps
Plum
Squidoo
Pageflakes
Facebook

Flickr

Squidoo

Facebook

Wikis
LIS wiki
Library success wiki
Wikipedia
Peanut butter wiki

Instant messaging
“ Email is for old people”
Talk instantly back and forth
Share files (or not!)
Share webcam discussions
Group chat
IM from webpages
Create chatrooms

Instant Messenger Services

Using…
Plugoo
Gabbly Chat
Meebo rooms

Collaborate
On documents – Google docs
On spreadsheets - NumSum
With calendars - Planzo
With training - Jybe
With projects – MyWebDesktop
With To Do lists – TaDaList
With webpages – Conversate

Combine everything!
With RSS and other Web 2.0 resources anything can work with anything else
Content can be changed and manipulated into different formats that you control
Users can get involved
Geography doesn’t matter
Speed is easy
It’s not technical!

So why not…
Create search engines for subject groups
Get users involved with a Zimbio group on an aspect of <whatever>?
Create a Squidoo lens for a subject?
Start a library weblog?
Create a flickr group

Or…
A podcast or a radio station, both involving music students
A Pageflakes page that you can share with colleagues
Create del.icio.us or FURL accounts and share them
Start a wiki for all the librarians in the area

Or even
Use instant messaging to provide information in a different way
Create a book reading club using LibraryThing, Amazon and a weblog
Have a library tour on YouTube

Or even
Create trading cards from Flickr photographs
Create fun/interesting new posters
Set up a Facebook, Bebo, MySpace account for the library
Publish your own books with Lulu
Share presentations with Slideshare.net

BUT…

Expect…
“ It can’t be done”
“ We don’t have the resources”
“ Bandwidth problems”
“ Security issues”
“ Write a proposal”
“ Not your job”
“ Not enough time”

AND…

Ignore it! Because Web 2 is changing:
The way we use the web
The way we use information
The way we find information
The way we do our jobs
The way we interact with people
The way that we look at everything

FOREVER

Want more?

Thank you!
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Cilipbuilding

by Phil Bradley on Mar 03, 2008

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