3. Homework Discussion What service did you choose? Why? What did you do yesterday on that service? How can that service be useful to your patrons? How can that service be useful to your library?
7. LinkedIn Business/career oriented social networking Contacts, brain trust! Applications – huddle workspaces, etc. Bring in Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare Consider what you use those for? Personal/Professional Mix
13. Google Overlords Love them or hate them, they produce some pretty cool stuff Other options – Bloglines(may be dying, though), Newsgator (may start charging for use soon) or Personal Portals Netvibes, Pageflakes, etc.
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15. Choices Organization Daily folder, topical folders (really labels) Interest folders Random creativity-inspiring folders! Navigation Keyboard shortcuts are your friend N – next; P – previous; spacebar – page down OR next feed Trends
17. PostRank http://labs.postrank.com/gr Firefox extension for Google Reader Filters “best of” posts in a particular feed # of comments # of page views Other secret algorithms Necessary for high-volume feeds
21. Bookmarking in the Cloud Like traditional browser bookmarks – but better Available anywhere Shareable Extensions, Bookmarklets available Networks for sharing
22. Tagging and Bundling Tagging Bottom-up taxonomy Whatever makes sense for you Bundling Collecting multiple tags into one “structure” Create complex organizational trees that are as deep/shallow as you want
28. Homework Read a blog post or two this weekend (about social networking) Be ready to share with the class on Monday Think about what kind of social networking sites you’d like to feature on a webpage We’ll find the widgets together on Monday!!
