Conversation Is King (SUMG)

Conversation is king.(Content is just something to talk about.)
Michael SauersTechnology Innovation Librarian,Nebraska Library CommissionSMUG 31 July 2009
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1993

2006

Are we locked-in to the old ways?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/255952747/

What is Web 2.0?

It’s the Web, but…

Easier to create
Easier to share

Features

http://flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/260004685/

Examples

last.fm: Now Playing

http://indexed.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-what-20-means.html

This isn’t what we expected.

X
or

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antique_radio

http://pcworld.about.com/dbf/Dec242005id123950.htm

http://www.terremoto.net/x/archivos/000124.html

But maybe we should have.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mimirnm/1721079156/
vs.
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“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.”―Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

SRSLY?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xrrr/2219947571/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/445600324/

"And it's easy to deride this sort of thing as self-absorbed publishing―why would anyone put out such drivel in public. It's simple. They're not talking to you.“ ―Clay Shirky

Don’t assume

A 2005 report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project called “Teens and Technology” found that teenagers preferred new technology, like instant messaging or text messaging, for talking to friends and use e-mail to communicate with “old people.”
E-mail is “too confusing”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/couleursgm/244737979/

“I know of an 82 yr. old retired veterinarian who bought a Kindle. He loves it and is proud of his tech suaveness. He downloads everything he reads even though he can’t download here in Gordon and must drive west about 20 miles to get reception.”
―Dawn Weber, Gordon, NE

ConversationFAIL

Conversation
FTW

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/206605150/

Opportunity!

Percentage of chart which looks like Pac-Man

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/travelinlibrarian/429723222/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/herzogbr/3217077856/

http://librarycampnebraska.pbwiki.com/

http://librariesandlibrarians.guildomatic.com/

Final thoughts…

K.I.S.S.

“The punks had a point. Established ideas and outdated dogmacreate limitations.Limitations suck.”― Matt Mason,The Pirates Dilemma
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/281476560/

“It’s the simplest lesson of the Internet: it’s the people stupid. We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because they allow us to communicate more effectively with other people.”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/memestate/54408373/

So, let’s have a conversation!
Michael Sauers
michael.sauers@nebraska.gov
www.travelinlibrarian.info
delicious.com/travelinlibrarian/socilweb