This document summarizes various social software tools that can be used for discovery and sharing of information, bookmarking and tagging content, collaboration, networking, and citation management. It discusses tools for blogs, RSS feeds, content syndication, bookmarking, tagging, wikis, web annotation, networking, and citations. Examples of specific tools mentioned include Digg, del.icio.us, Flickr, LibraryThing, Facebook, Zotero, and CiteULike. The document was presented by Kate Pitcher to provide an overview of popular social tools without covering gaming, podcasting, IM/chat, or virtual worlds.

1. Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Kate Pitcher http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com/

3. Agenda What we will be covering : Web-based social software tools What we will not be covering : Gaming Podcasting IM or chat Screencasting Virtual worlds

4. Introduction What is social software? What one needs to know Technology requirements

5. Social Software User-created content User-driven = YOU decide what is popular! Participatory web

6. Social Software Discovery & Sharing Bookmarking Tagging Networking Collaboration Citation

7. Social Discovery & Sharing Tools designed to make the discovery & sharing of news and information easy Content syndication (RSS) Management of information Ability to rate content Share websites with others

8. Social Discovery & Sharing Blogs & RSS Digg Newsvine Reddit Sphere Stumbleupon (plug-in/extension) Thisisby.us Slideshare

9. Digg http://digg.com

10. Newsvine http://www.newsvine.com Click icon and “seed” in Newsvine

11. Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net

12. Social Bookmarking Allow users to store, tag and bookmark their favorite websites through a web-based login Users can categorize & classify content according to their own schemas

13. Social Bookmarking del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) BlogMarks Furl Connotea Simpy Netvouz Ma.gnolia RawSugar (plug-in/extension)

14. del.icio.us http://del.icio.us

15. del.icio.us

16. RawSugar http://www.rawsugar.com

17. Social Tagging Process of creating labels and keywords for content online Tags are personal Easier for retrieval Allows users to create meaningful vocabulary and create a personal organizational schema

18. Social Tagging LibraryThing Shelfari Flickr del.icio.us (plug-in/extension) TagFetch (tag search engine)

19. LibraryThing http://www.librarything.com

20. LibraryThing

21. Shelfari http://www.shelfari.com

22. Flickr

23. Social Collaboration Multiple users collaborate and create, edit and delete content Social annotation tools allow users to comment and annotate websites and documents online

24. Social Collaboration Wikis Web annotation tools

25. Wikis

26. Web annotation tools Annotea Protonotes Stickis (plug-in/extension) Fleck Diggo (plug-in/extension) JumpKnowledge

27. Stickis http://stickis.com

28. Stickis

29. Diigo http://www.diigo.com Download Diigo to your toolbar and use it to bookmark and annotate your favorite content

30. Diigo Click on Diigo toolbar and add comments or notes about the page you are visiting

31. Social Networking Online communities built around common interests “… idea that one person’s connections to other people are more important than the person’s attributes…” (Farkas 110). User’s identity ( profile ) becomes paramount Allow users to connect to each other (a la six degrees of separation)

32. Social Networking Facebook MySpace Friendster Ning Orkut LinkedIn hi5 Xanga

33. Facebook http://www.facebook.com

34. Ning http://www.ning.com

35. Social Citation Tools Allows user to gather, organize and manage sources while doing research Some function like bibliographic citation software (EndNote, RefWorks) Users can manage references and produce bibliographies while also tagging and interacting with content

36. Social Citation Tools Zotero CiteULike BibSonomy

37. Zotero http://www.zotero.org

38. CiteULike http://www.citeulike.org

39. Works Cited Farkas, Meredith G. Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online . Medford, N.J: Information Today, 2007.

40. Social Software Tools A RRLC Pizza Workshop Presentation found at: http://librarysocialsoftware.pbwiki.com For more information contact: Kate Pitcher Reference/Instruction & Web Development Librarian Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo [email_address] http://www.geneseo.edu/~pitcher AIM: beebugkate