Web2.0 Getting started (Lip Smacking Good: Your Library's blog and Web2.0 tools)

Slideshow available at: http://robinfay.net/web2.0/web2.0_blogging.pps All links available at: http://del.icio.us/ webtechnologiespresentation Lip-smacking Good

Overview
Introductions / Brief intro to Web 2.0
Blogging: Brief overview of what we are doing and blog/social networking choices
Fun stuff:
flickr (image hosting)
del.icio.us (bookmarking + tagging)
YouTube (video hosting)
Widgets (snapshots, meebo, twitter, etc.)
RSS feeds (technorati, pageflakes, etc.) +Mashups
This little movie gives a good overview of Web 2.0. Let’s take a look. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

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A little more about Web 2.0
Web 2.0 technologies provide an easy way to store , describe , share , discover, organize and create information in a way that makes sense to user
Web 2.0 is collaborative
·Web 2.0 technologies provide an ease of use (little or no coding experience needed)
Web 2.0 facilitate discovery (e.g., the ability to share, recommend, or discover resources from other users)
Power to the people!
Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog So, how can libraries tap into this? Lip-smacking Good

Lip-smacking Good: … and one more graph before we jump into blogging.

Web 1.0 4.0 Up next : blogging!

Blogging
One of the easiest way to tap into Web 2.0 technologies is through the use of blogging. We have been blogging since January 2005 at http://www.libs.uga.edu/blog/
We use Wordpress (open source software) hosted on the libraries server
We’ll briefly look at a couple of options, but if you you’re not blogging yet, also check out our Getting started with web 2.0 presentation for more info and a comparison of the blog tools.
UGA uses Wordpress. Wordpress also offers some options these days. Let’s take a quick look! Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

A little about Wordpress
Wordpress
Advantages/Disadvantages
Complete control +
Keep up with upgrades –
Server stuff =
Customizing
Wordpress MU
How it differs from regular Wordpress
Advantages/Disadvantages
New; not as many plugins YET
Spam filter – Yes
Multiuser/multiauthor blogs
What if you can’t host a blog? Let’s look at some options. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Free choices hosted elsewhere:
Blogger.com
Wordpress.com
TypePad.com
Why would you want to blog? Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! Blogging Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Blogging
Reasons to Blog/social network:
PR/Marketing
Subscription via RSS feeds; also ability to embed content into other websites (pageflakes etc.)
Ease of updating website
Instant updating/editing
Provide a more informal “face” to the library
Push out content to users, i.e. be in their space
Depending on software, can set up publication of announcements & posts
Sounds great! Ready to start? Consider… Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Blogging
Consider:
Guidelines & writing style sheets. Appropriateness of content?
http://www.libs.uga.edu/blogetc/
Finding contributors
Keeping the blog active and maintained
To comment or not to comment
Advantages of immediate content and high ranking pages in google
Okay, now let’s look at the fun stuff! Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

The Fun Stuff
Image hosting (free) – Flickr overview
Free and easy to use
Paid accounts are offered and have more privileges, but free accounts can get the job done
Add descriptions, tags, and more to images
Add creative common licensing/copyright info
How can flickr be used in a blog? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Image hosting - Flickr
Fun stuff to do in your blog or website with flickr
Slideshows
Flickr badges
Networking
Creative commons/licensing
Find graphics and images for use
Discover new resources!
Share your images with the world!
More!
A few examples of libraries using flickr…. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Libraries/librarians doing neat things with flickr
LibraryMan (Michael Porter) http:// www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman
Dewey Graduate Library - University at Albany http:// www.flickr.com/photos/ualibraries
NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center http:// www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc /
Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! What about links management? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Social bookmarking – del.icio.us overview
Free and easy to use
Uses for you or your library
Centralized storage of resources/links lists in del.icio.us
Easy to update – no coding necessary
Bookmarks travel with you – never lose them!
Resource sharing and Discovery (recommend links, find popular links by tag, etc.)
Private or shared
Pathfinders/guides for individual classes
Bibliographies
..and you can even embed your del.icio.us links into a standard website! Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Social bookmarking – del.icio.us
Uses for websites and blogging
Del.icio.us toys (links list, tag clouds, etc.)
Networking
Resource sharing and discovery
Easy maintenance of links lists
Let’s take a look at some libraries using del.cio.us. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Social bookmarking - del.icio.us
Nashville Public Library – TeenWeb http:// www.library.nashville.org/teens/teenweb.asp
College of New Jersey – Italian Studies Pathfinder http:// www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html
UGA Libraries
Cataloging Resources
http://www.libs.uga.edu/catalog/ links.html
Weird & Wacky Web Watching
Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! So, how about video? Let’s take a look at YouTube. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Video hosting (free) – YouTube overview
Free and easy to use; accepts most formats; no need to convert!
Videocasting
Provides easy way to get videos on the web
Embed into blog posts
Is now owned by Google
How can you use YouTube in blogging? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Uses
Embed videos in blogs, presentations, websites, etc
Storage space (no need to store large size videos on server)
Networking
Resource sharing and Discovery
Videocasting
Video hosting – YouTube Let’s look at some libraries using YouTube. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Day in the life of the Library - St. Joseph County Public Library http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v = vrtYdFV_Eak
Installing a new OS on library computers http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =nWIrxuF5NSo
Why do NJ patrons love their libraries? http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =ZeQI25n8qPQ
Guide to the library – from Williams College http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =i-t0LHnw-fc
Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! Widgets?!? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Wonderful world of widgets
What is a widget?
Widgets are just little tools which are generally easy to install in a user interface .
Widgets can be embedded in blogs and websites (snapshots, flickr toys, etc.), downloaded for use on the desktop or on a mobile device. Blogger and wordpress are both utilizing widgets more. Pageflakes , a free web based service, uses widgets to put the page together. Pageflakes widgets include RSS feeds, flickr, and even static webpages.
How can we use widgets? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Wonderful world of widgets
Widgets make it easy to embed third party content (flickr, youtube, etc.) or even code into websites with little or no coding experience. Widgetbox.com is an excellent resource!
Widgets are frequently drop n drag or copy and paste.
Examples of widgets to embed in websites: flickr slideshows, youtube movies, snapshots, links lists, etc.
Pageflakes and netvibes are two widget based services
Meebo offers an IM widget.
Remember all links are also located on the del.icio.us page! Let’s look at Meebo. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Meebo provides a single interface to AIM, Yahoo, MSN Chat
Meebo widgets are embeddable
> Meebo in action
So, how does that work? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Let’s look at Meebo.
This is the widget code for UGA’s meebo account. Notice the embed code. This is all copy + paste provided by meebo.
Let’s look at another widget product called snapshots. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Snapshots provide a popup preview of links.
Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

Copy and paste code provided by snapshots. You’ll need to sign up for a free account in order to create your code. RSS Feeds are also used in some widgets. Let’s touch briefly on feeds. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

A little about RSS feeds
What are RSS feeds?
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication
RSS provides an easy way for users to find and subscribe to information. Makes content portable to other web pages including blogs.
Feedburner.com
What happens when you put 2 or more of these kinds of technologies together? Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog

YOU GET A MASH UP!
In web terms, a mashup takes content or data from different sources or services to create a new thing
An example of a mashup is Flickr Maps which uses both images from Flickr and Google Maps
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathowie/8496262/

This presentation:
All links + extras!
http://del.icio.us/webtechnologiespresentation/
More resources:
Intro to Web 2.0 Minipresentation:
http:// docs.google.com/View?docid =dkcxvp2_7d7ms9d
Blog Comparison/Getting started with blogging
http://www.robinfay.net/web2.0/getting_started/
About/Contact:
Amy:
Amy is a Reference & Instructor Librarian, the Assistant Web Editor for the Libraries, and Instruction Coordinator for the Main Library , to a name a few of the hats that she wears.
http://www.libs.uga.edu/ staffpages/watts.html
Robin
Robin is a Database Librarian, member of the Libraries’ Web Advisory Group, freelance webdesigner & metadata consultant, to a name a few of the hats that she wears.
http:// www.robinfay.net

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