The Social Web

Michael Sauers Technology Innovation Librarian Nebraska Library Commission

What is the Social Web?
Also known as social software and social networking.
Allows you to share with your colleagues, friends, family and strangers.
Allows you to share your writings, thoughts, videos, music, pictures and more.

Web 2.0
“ While the old Web was about Web sites, clicks, and “eyeballs,” the new Web is about communities, participation and peering. As users and computer power multiply, and easy-to-use tools proliferate, the Internet is evolving into a global, living, networked computer that anyone can program. Even the simple act of participating in an online community makes a contribution to the new digital commons – whether one’s building a business on Amazon or producing a video clip for YouTube, creating a community around his or her flickr photo collection or editing the astronomy entry on Wikipedia.” – Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

Features of the social web
Simple publishing
Tagging
Friends
Comments
Recommendations
Feed publishing
Share, share, share!
(Not all social services have all features)

Simple Publishing
Little to no markup language skills necessary.
Usually it’s create, click, and publish.

Tagging
The act of adding descriptive keywords to an item.
Simple metadata
“ folksonomy”

Friends
By making another account holder your “friend” you are automatically kept up to date with what that person is doing in the system.

Comments
Submit your feelings on the creations of others.
Others submit their feelings on your creations.

Recommendations
Two styles
Automated based on previous experiences
User generated recommendations
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/136564063/

Feeds
RSS / ATOM
Allows people to subscribe to your information
Users receive information quickly and with little effort on their part
Users have the control over the information they receive

Examples of Social Software
Wikis
Blogs
YouTube
Flickr
del.icio.us
last.fm
43Things
Digg
LibraryThing
MySpace
Facebook
SlideShare
Squidoo
Amazon.com
Second Life

Wikis
A Web site “anyone” can edit with little knowledge of markup
Allows for collaboration and sharing of information

Wikipedia

Blogs
Online journals
Can be used in lieu of an RSS feed
Pew Internet & American Life Project report on bloggers published 7/2006
54% of bloggers are under the age of 30!
37% of bloggers write about their “life and experiences”

PaperCuts

YouTube
Submit and share videos of up to 10 minutes in length
Recently purchased by Google for $1.65 billion
Subscribe to the videos of users
Comment on videos

NLC on YouTube

Flickr
Photographs
Share
Tag
Organize into sets
Contribute to group pools
Leave comments and notes
Send to your blog

NLC on flickr

del.icio.us
Social bookmarking service
Use in conjunction with or as a replacement to your browser’s bookmarks

My del.icio.us home page

last.fm
Share, tag, and recommend the music you listen to on your computer
Integrates with iTunes, Windows Media Player, and WinAmp
Client software, not a Web site

last.fm: Now Playing

43Things
Submit and tag the 43 things you want to accomplish in your life
Find others who want to do the same things in your area or from around the world
Share tips and inspiration for completing your goals

My Things

Digg
Social news service
Tag
Thumbs up / Thumbs down

My Digg homepage

LibraryThing
Catalog, tag, and share your book collection.
Yes, it does MARC records.

My LibraryThing Library

A book in LibraryThing

MySpace
Friends, messaging, and blogging all wrapped up into most of the worst-designed Web pages ever

NLC’s MySpace page

Facebook
Originally only for college students
Now open to all individuals (no organizational accounts)
Cleaner interface than MySpace
Integrates additional features such as RSS and mobile access

My Facebook page

http://xkcd.com/c256.html

SlideSahre
Share and tag your PowerPoint presentations
View and comment on others’ presentations

NLC’s Slidespace

Squidoo
Create and share online bibliographies
Bring in resources from traditional Web sites, flickr, del.icio.us, and podcasts
A Squidoo page is known as a “lens”

Library 2.0 Reading List

Amazon.com
Calling Amazon.com “social software” is a surprise to some but it does have most of the features:
tagging
recommendations
friends

Amazon.com’s social features

Second Life
“ A 3D online digital world imagined, created, & owned by its residents.”
Social in the sense that users interact with other users

Second Life Library 2.0

A final thought…
“ 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.” ─ Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out

Questions?
Michael Sauers
[email_address]
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/
http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/socialweb
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