Social Software

Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Kate Pitcher http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com/

Agenda
What we will be covering :
Web-based social software tools
What we will not be covering :
Gaming
Podcasting
IM or chat
Screencasting
Virtual worlds

Introduction
What is social software?
What one needs to know
Technology requirements

Social Software
User-created content
User-driven = YOU decide what is popular!
Participatory web

Social Software
Discovery & Sharing
Bookmarking
Tagging
Networking
Collaboration
Citation

Social Discovery & Sharing
Tools designed to make the discovery & sharing of news and information easy
Content syndication (RSS)
Management of information
Ability to rate content
Share websites with others

Social Discovery & Sharing
Blogs & RSS
Digg
Newsvine
Reddit
Sphere
Stumbleupon (plug-in/extension)
Thisisby.us
Slideshare

Digg http://digg.com

Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com Click icon and “seed” in Newsvine

Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net

Social Bookmarking
Allow users to store, tag and bookmark their favorite websites through a web-based login
Users can categorize & classify content according to their own schemas

Social Bookmarking
del.icio.us (plug-in/extension)
BlogMarks
Furl
Connotea
Simpy
Netvouz
Ma.gnolia
RawSugar (plug-in/extension)

del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

del.icio.us

RawSugar http://www.rawsugar.com

Social Tagging
Process of creating labels and keywords for content online
Tags are personal
Easier for retrieval
Allows users to create meaningful vocabulary and create a personal organizational schema

Social Tagging
LibraryThing
Shelfari
Flickr
del.icio.us (plug-in/extension)
TagFetch (tag search engine)

LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com

LibraryThing

Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com

Flickr

Social Collaboration
Multiple users collaborate and create, edit and delete content
Social annotation tools allow users to comment and annotate websites and documents online

Social Collaboration
Wikis
Web annotation tools

Web annotation tools
Annotea
Protonotes
Stickis (plug-in/extension)
Fleck
Diggo (plug-in/extension)
JumpKnowledge

Stickis http://stickis.com

Stickis

Diigo http://www.diigo.com Download Diigo to your toolbar and use it to bookmark and annotate your favorite content

Diigo Click on Diigo toolbar and add comments or notes about the page you are visiting

Social Networking
Online communities built around common interests
“… idea that one person’s connections to other people are more important than the person’s attributes…” (Farkas 110).
User’s identity ( profile ) becomes paramount
Allow users to connect to each other (a la six degrees of separation)

Social Networking
Facebook
MySpace
Friendster
Ning
Orkut
LinkedIn
hi5
Xanga

Facebook http://www.facebook.com

Ning http://www.ning.com

Social Citation Tools
Allows user to gather, organize and manage sources while doing research
Some function like bibliographic citation software (EndNote, RefWorks)
Users can manage references and produce bibliographies while also tagging and interacting with content

Social Citation Tools
Zotero
CiteULike
BibSonomy

Zotero http://www.zotero.org

CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org

Works Cited
Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online . Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2007.

Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Presentation found at: http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com For more information contact: Kate Pitcher Reference/Instruction & Web Development Librarian Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo [email_address] http://www.geneseo.edu/~pitcher AIM: beebugkate

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