The Social Web: Wikis, RSS, Blogs, Flickr, and MORE! Iowa City Public Library 8 Dec 2006 Michael Sauers Internet Trainer, BCR

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.

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

“ 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

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.

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”

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.

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.

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

Two styles

Automated based on previous experiences

User generated recommendations

Feed Publishing 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

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 LibraryThing MySpace SlideShare Squidoo Amazon.com Second Life

Wikis

Blogs

YouTube

Flickr

del.icio.us

last.fm

LibraryThing

MySpace

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

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”

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

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

My YouTube home page

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

Photographs

Share

Tag

Organize into sets

Contribute to group pools

Leave comments and notes

Send to your blog

My flickr home page

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

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

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

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

Catalog, tag, and share your book collection.

Yes, it does MARC records.

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

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

Waverly Public Library

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

Share and tag your PowerPoint presentations

View and comment on others’ presentations

My SlideShare page

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”

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

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

“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

“ 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 http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/ http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/icpl2006 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License .

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