Building Community in Web 2.0 Debbie Herman Digital Resources Librarian CCSU [email_address]

What is Web 2.0? Originally coined by Tim O’Reilly c. 2004

Originally coined by Tim O’Reilly c. 2004

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 Source : O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software” (2005). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Double-click Google AdSense Ofoto Flickr Personal websites Blogging Content Management Systems Wikis Taxonomies (a là Yahoo subject directories) Folksonomies Britannica Online Wikipedia Publishing Participation

Web 2.0 Applications

AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Online Communities Second Life World of Warcraft (MMORPGs) MySpace Facebook LibraryThing Flickr

Content Creation Blogs Wikis Social bookmarking/tagging ( del.icio.us , Furl, Digg, PennTags) Mashups Podcasting/RSS

Blogs

Wikis

Social bookmarking/tagging ( del.icio.us , Furl, Digg, PennTags)

Mashups

Podcasting/RSS

Web 2.0 and Reading Where do we fit in? A 2007 NEA study found that on weekdays 15- to 24-year-olds spent a mere seven minutes on voluntary reading.

Where do we fit in?

Web 2.0 in the Service of Reading Social networking sites (MySpace / Facebook) LibraryThing LibraryElf SecondLife Blogging Podcasting

Social networking sites (MySpace / Facebook)

LibraryThing

LibraryElf

SecondLife

Blogging

Podcasting

Facebook

Social Tagging / Bookmarking Flickr Del.icio.us

Flickr

Del.icio.us

LibraryThing

LibraryThing in the catalog (OPAC) Danbury Public Library LibraryElf

Danbury Public Library

LibraryElf

Second Life

Life on the Grid

Kurt Vonnegut in SecondLife 2006

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Communicate with Our Clienteles Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) RSS newsfeeds Podcasting

Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.)

RSS newsfeeds

Podcasting

Fun Google Gadgets GoogleDocs (collaboration tool) Google Book Search Google SMS for mobile devices Google Calendar

GoogleDocs (collaboration tool)

Google Book Search

Google SMS for mobile devices

Google Calendar

http://del.icio.us/debbie.herman/motheread Links to Resources

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