Web 2.0: It's All about Social Networking

Slide 1: Web 2.0 It’s All about Social Networking Eileen O’Shea Infopeople eileen@infopeople.org April 2007

Slide 2: Web 2.0 Is Us

Slide 3: Seriously.

Slide 4: What Is Web 2.0? Generally refers to web-based tools • that enhance “social networking” - people connecting with other people Blogs, wikis, photo sharing, video • sharing, bookmark sharing, you name it sharing

Slide 5: Blogs A few authors, many commenters • CMS authoring • Movable Type • http://infoblog.infopeople.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi • Blogger • http://waynnandholly.blogspot.com/ • Free or low-cost to create •

Slide 6: Some Librarian Blogs Tame the Web - Michael Stephens • http://www.tametheweb.com/ • Librarian.net - Jessamyn West • http://librarian.net • The Shifted Librarian - Jenny Levine • http://theshiftedlibrarian.com •

Slide 7: Some Library Blogs Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County • http://plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/ • USC Libraries E-Resources • http://usceresources.blogspot.com/ • LaGuardia Community College Library • http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/library/blog/whatsnew.html •

Slide 8: Wikis Multiple authors • Simple editing, CMS-based • MediaWiki, PBWiki • Classic example: wikipedia.org •

Slide 9: Library-related Wikis Infopeople Wikis • http://wiki.infopeople.org • LibrarySuccess: A Best Practices Wiki • http://www.libsuccess.org/ • ALA Wikis • http://wikis.ala.org/ • Internet Librarian Wiki • http://internetlibrarian.pbwiki.com/ •

Slide 10: Photo Sharing Many services:  Flickr, Shutterfly, Picasa (Google)  Tag your photos  Find people with common interests, find  similar photos Link your photos to your blog or your  wiki

Slide 11: Video Sharing Digital cameras have made video easy  It’s not about high quality  Tagging videos  It’s all about social networking  Several services:  YouTube, Google Videos, StumbleVideo 

Slide 12: Social Bookmarking Browser bookmarks are SO yesterday  Share them with the world, and tag them!  Services:  del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us/  digg - http://digg.com/  cluztr - http://cluztr.com/  StumbeUpon - http://www.stumbleupon.com/ 

Slide 13: Okay, great. But how do I keep track of all of this stuff? RSS!  In Plain English… QuickTimeﾪ and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Slide 14: RSS “Really Simple Syndication”  What’s syndication?  It’s the ability to subscribe to a site’s  content Think of a newspaper comic strip like  Dilbert, syndicated to hundreds of newspapers

Slide 15: News Aggregators Aggregators take the “feed” from a blog  and let you see new content Aggregators can be stand-alone apps  OR Aggregators can be web-based 

Slide 16: Stand-alone Aggregators Net NewsWire, Sharp Reader  Nifty integration with your computer’s  browser and can display pics and let you listen to podcasts, etc. Read content offline  Problem: you have to have your  computer with you to read your feeds!

Slide 17: Web-based Aggregators Read your feeds anywhere! All you  need is a web browser & an Internet connection Bloglines, Google Reader, Newsgator  Problem: you have to be online to read  your feeds

Slide 18: Podcasts Taking it to the next step, podcasts are  audio blogs MP3 format  Can be played on your computer OR an  MP3 player Non-proprietary format so are easily  portable

Slide 19: Library Podcasts Infopeople podcasts  http://infopeople.org/resources/podcasts.html  Sunnyvale Public Library podcasts  http://www.librarypodcasts.org/  Arizona State University Library podcasts  https://thelibrarychannel.blog.asu.edu/?triedWebauth=1 

Slide 20: How to Create a Podcast Roll your own:  A recorder  A microphone  A blog or other service to syndicate your podcasts  Services like Hipcast or Gabcast  Phone in your podcast  Often time limits  Quality generally lower 

Slide 21: Vodcasts Like podcasts but with video  Generally short - under 10 minutes  (YouTube limits videos to 10 minutes) Format is often Flash (all content on  YouTube is converted to Flash)

Slide 22: Vodcast Share Sites YouTube  Google Video  StumbleVideo  All accept wmv, mov, mpg, or avi  formats for uploading

Slide 23: How to Create a Vodcast Digital cameras are by far the easiest  way to go! Length is only limited by the size of the  storage card Format is usually AVI or MOV, both  formats acceptable to YouTube Of course, digital video cameras are  great, too!

Slide 24: Roll Your Own Searches Rollyo  LibraryThing  WorldCat  All are customizable, easy to create  links for your web page or blog

Slide 25: Web 2.0 & Online Learning Old way: LMS  Blackboard, WebCT, etc.  Password-protected restricted content  New ways  Edu-blogging  Podcasts  Media sharing  Then integrate it!  Angel & Second Life 

Slide 26: Web Apps Old way: Office  New way:  Google Docs & Spreadsheets  http://docs.google.com/  Word processor, spreadsheet  Compatible with Word  Collaborate with others  Free! 

Slide 27: Mashups Take a couple of tools, put them together and  make a new tool! Google My Maps  http://maps.google.com/  iLife  Link your iTunes library contents to the world and see  who else likes what you like! Zillow - Google Maps + market values of homes  http://www.zillow.com/ 

Slide 28: Web 2.0 & Instant Messaging AIM is sooo Web 1.0, right?  Twitter  http://twitter.com/  Keeping everybody up-to-date on what you’re  doing, one boring detail at a time ;-) Meebo  http://meebo.com  IM anybody on any chat service wherever you  are

Slide 29: Communities Library2.0 Ning  http://library20.ning.com/  MySpace  http://myspace.com/  Facebook  http://facebook.com/ 

Slide 30: Next Generation Communities Remember Dungeons & Dragons?  Remember the Sims?  Take it one step further:  Second Life! 

Slide 31: What Is Second life? “Second Life is a 3-D virtual world  entirely built and owned by its residents. Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,855,848 people from around the globe.”

Slide 32: No, but really, what IS Second life? The average age of users is 32, and the median age  of users is 36 There are $5 million USD in virtual transactions per  month conducted between users 25,000 users log in daily  Anshe Chung, Second Life's most notable land  baron, makes $175k per year flipping virtual real estate. --March 2006 Google Talk

Slide 33: Hi! I’m Eileen Gapchenko

Slide 34: Why It Won’t Take Over the Internet Tomorrow System requirements:  Internet Connection: Cable or DSL  Computer Processor: 1.6GHz Pentium 4 or Athlon 2000+  or better Computer Memory: 512MB or better  Video/Graphics Card:  nVidia GeForce FX 5600, GeForce 6600, or better OR  ATI Radeon 9600, X600, or better  Pretty stiff! 

Slide 35: Libraries in Second Life Second Life Library  secondlife://info island/97/255/33  San Jose State University School of Library &  Information Science http://slurl.com/secondlife/SJSU%20SLIS/128/128  Consumer Health Library  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Consumer%20Health%20Libra  ry,%20Info%20Island%20II%20/227/202/23/

Slide 36: Are you blogging this? QuickTimeﾪ and a H.264 decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Slide 37: Ways To Keep Learning Five Weeks to a Social Library  http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/  free online course  23 Learning 2.0 Things  http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/  the original tech challenge!  Infopeople’s 23 Web 2.0 Things  http://our23things.infopeople.org/  our take on the PLCMC’s challenge 