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.

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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.