1. Staying up to date
Web 2.0 tools
Julia Gross

2. The session is about…

3. Why are we overloaded?
• Information explosion
• Information overload
• New formats
• New technologies
http://www.flickr.com/photos/callumscott2/280532292/

4. Why are we overloaded?
• Change
• Technology
• Learning
• Trends
• Stay in touch
• Multitasking
• Chaos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tzofia/270800047/ BrittneyBush's photostream

5. Why do we need to keep up?
• Need to keep
learning (lifelong)
• Be informed
• To our jobs
• Help students &
staff
• Career
• Life

6. Web 1.0 ways to keep up
• Journals, books
• Conferences,
seminars, PD
• Professional (ALIA)
• Listservs (WAIN)
• Forums
• Email – the killer!!

7. Keeping up with email
• File
• Use folders
• Sort
• Scan from reading window pane
• Delete
• Bulk delete

8. Keeping up with listservs
• WAIN
• Get digests
• Scan
• File

9. Web 2.0 and keeping up ….

10. Web 2.0 content…
• Blogs, quick read
• Podcasts, download to iPod
• SlideShare
• Flickr
• YouTube
• Twitter

11. Follow (learn from) other people
–Web 2.0 gurus
–their blogs,
bookmarks,
presentations,
Twitter feed,
podcasts, video

12. Two web 2.0 organising tools
• RSS
• Social bookmarking
– Delicious
• Reference management
– Connotea
– CiteUlike
– Zotero
– EndnoteWeb

13. Google updating tools
• RSS into your iGoogle page
• Google Reader RSS
• Google Alerts

14. iGoogle start page

15. Google account

16. Be organised!
• Use traditional methods (Web 1.0)
• Use new technologies (Web 2.0)
• Be realistic
• Prioritise
• Have a plan
• 10 mins a day…or whatever …
• Make time for it

17. Keeping up - 10 mins a day
Scan RSS feeds, email alerts
Select items of interest
File to social bookmarking
Tag to for later retrieval

18. Thanks …questions?