The Social Web: Wikis, RSS, Blogs, Flickr, and MORE!

Slide 1: The Social Web: Wikis, RSS, Blogs, Flickr, and MORE! Iowa City Michael Sauers Public Library Internet Trainer, BCR 8 Dec 2006

Slide 2: 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.

Slide 3: 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

Slide 4: Features of the social web • Simple publishing • Tagging • Friends • Comments • Recommendations • Feed publishing • Share, share, share! (Not all social services have all features)

Slide 5: Simple Publishing • Little to no markup language skills necessary. • Usually it’s create, click, and publish.

Slide 6: Tagging • The act of adding descriptive keywords to an item. • Simple metadata • “folksonomy”

Slide 7: Friends • By making another account holder your “friend” you are automatically kept up to date with what that person is doing in the system.

Slide 8: Comments • Submit your feelings on the creations of others. • Others submit their feelings on your creations.

Slide 9: Recommendations • Two styles – Automated based on previous experiences – User generated recommendations

Slide 10: 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

Slide 11: Examples of Social Software • Wikis • LibraryThing • Blogs • MySpace • YouTube • SlideShare • Flickr • Squidoo • del.icio.us • Amazon.com • last.fm • Second Life

Slide 12: Wikis • A Web site “anyone” can edit with little knowledge of markup • Allows for collaboration and sharing of information

Slide 13: Wikipedia

Slide 14: 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”

Slide 15: PaperCuts

Slide 16: 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

Slide 17: My YouTube home page

Slide 18: Flickr • Photographs – Share – Tag – Organize into sets – Contribute to group pools – Leave comments and notes – Send to your blog

Slide 19: My flickr home page

Slide 20: del.icio.us • Social bookmarking service • Use in conjunction with or as a replacement to your browser’s bookmarks

Slide 21: My del.icio.us home page

Slide 22: 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

Slide 23: last.fm: Now Playing

Slide 24: LibraryThing • Catalog, tag, and share your book collection. • Yes, it does MARC records.

Slide 26: MySpace • Friends, messaging, and blogging all wrapped up into most of the worst- designed Web pages ever

Slide 27: Waverly Public Library

Slide 28: SlideSahre • Share and tag your PowerPoint presentations • View and comment on others’ presentations

Slide 29: My SlideShare page

Slide 30: 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”

Slide 31: Library 2.0 Reading List

Slide 32: Amazon.com • Calling Amazon.com “social software” is a surprise to some but it does have most of the features: – tagging – recommendations – friends

Slide 33: Amazon.com’s social features

Slide 34: Second Life • “A 3D online digital world imagined, created, & owned by its residents.” • Social in the sense that users interact with other users

Slide 35: Second Life Library 2.0

Slide 36: 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

Slide 37: 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.