Go Go Gadget!?!:
Technology, Trends, and
Children’s Services
David Lee King
Digital Branch & Services Manager
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
www.davidleeking.com

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?

From Wikipedia: “a … second-
generation of Internet-based services
— such as social networking sites,
wikis, communication tools, and
folksonomies — that let people
collaborate and share information
online in ways previously unavailable.”

communication, conversation, participation...
Community

Web 2.0
Church 2.0 Music 2.0
Law 2.0 Advertising 2.0
Business 2.0
Library 2.0

Tagging
RSS Readers Commenting
RSS
Glue of Web 2.0
User-
Generated Friending
Content Mashups
Web as Platform

1. RSS
• Does 2 things:
• subscribe to other websites that
have RSS feeds (aka syndication)
• create content in one place, but display
it in another place
• any content - text, photos, audio, video

2. RSS Feed Readers

3. Tagging, or
Folksonomies
• Categorizing the web
• Choose personal keywords
• Browseable and searchable
• web 2.0 uses tagging

4. Leaving Comments
• Most web 2.0 sites allow commenting
• establishes a sense of community
• creates two-way communication

conversation

5. User-Supplied Content
• web 2.0 doesn’t exist without user generated
content
• most web 2.0 sites feature “my stuff”
• text
• photos
• videos

6. Web as Platform
• web-based software
• a platform that allows people to interact
• email is a good example

7. Mashups
• From Wikipedia: “A mashup is a website or
web application that seamlessly combines
content from more than one source
into an integrated experience.”
• Usually via an API, RSS feed, or JavaScript

8. Friending
• Buddies, friends, contacts,
followers
• Linking to friends or contacts
• sharing content
• trusted buddy list

now, let’s jump right in
• blogs
• social networking sites
• bookmark managers
• wikis
• instant messaging
• podcasting and videocasting

blogs

what can you
do with blogs?

Social Networking Sites

What can you do with
Social Networking Sites?

Bookmark Managers
• AKA Social Bookmarking
• IE favorites is tied to a single PC
• Bookmark managers do the same thing…
• … but are accessible via the web!
• how it works
• add a bookmark, add tags, description, clipping
• Others can add comments, ratings
• Others can subscribe via RSS
• searchable

What can you do with
Bookmark Managers?
• Access your own bookmarks anywhere
• Find an expert and subscribe
• Search
• Share!
• actual links
• expertise

Wiki
• What’s a Wiki?
• A website that allows anyone to add and
edit content
• Great for collaborative authoring
• Tracks changes so you can revert back to
older page if needed
• Searchable
• Comments can be allowed

What can you do
with a Wiki?

Instant Messaging
• AKA IM
• Pretty easy – you type, hit enter, they type, hit
enter, etc.
• Chat history is tracked
• Real time communication
• PCs, cell phones, PDAs all have IM

IM Clients
• Individual clients:
• AOL AIM
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger
• IRC, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk, GroupWise Messenger,
etc.
• Multi-Client services:
• Trillian, Gaim, Meebo

What can you do with IM?

Podcasting & Videocasting

what can you do
with podcasting and video?

Why? digital space
conversation
community
participation
info literacy customer-centered

Thank you!
davidleeking.com