Climbing out of
the box:
Mashing up our Community
David Lee King
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
davidleeking.com

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What is a
Mashup?

api rss
soap
by
xml
hand http://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/378641553/

embedding

widgets

My own
mashups

Mashups
on the Web

video mashup

twitter

a broader view

mashups at
my library

RSS

Catalog
Mashups

Comfortable
with 2.0

Transformations

Tagging
RSS Readers
Commenting
RSS
Emerging Trends
User- Friending
Generated
Mashups
Content
Web as Platform

comments
• one-on-one in the past
• maybe a letter?
• Here’s what it can be
now

29
comments!

On a
Director’s
Blog!!!

friending

content

Tagging

Web as Platform

Old way: Patrons
visit library to do
stuff at the library

New way:
Patrons visit
library to
access the
web... so
they can do
stuff outside
the library

Poking Holes
in the Box
(through patron participation)

Outside the Box
(mashing up our community)

Outside
the
library!

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+
+ 2.0 =

Thinking Cap Time...

Groups of 4-5
Goal:
- plan new service mashing up 2 or more types of
info
- reach a new audience
- in 10 minutes or less...
Answer:
- what would you do?
- how would you use the web?
- how would you “go where the users are?”
Would this affect other services?

Thank you!
davidleeking.com