use web2.0 tools to searching reference or materials effecitvely and efficiently

1. Reference search
in a social way
By Wenxia Kang
——Social Network searching engines
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2. Social Network & Web2.0 tools

3. Social Network & Web2.0 tools
 Features
 Creating together
 Form online communities based on
common interests
 Make connections automatically
through tags
 We are not alone. We can turn to more
people from different parts of the world
for help or communication.

4. Social Network searching tools
 More resources
 Update in time
 Search through Tags or people
 Wikipedia
 Diigo
 Slideshare
…

5. Wikipedia
 Web-based, free-content encyclopedia
 the largest and most popular general
reference work on the Internet.
 written collaboratively by volunteers
around the world
 The Newest information and updated
every minute and second
 cover almost all topics of
human knowledge

6. Wikipedia
 provide links to guide users to
related pages with additional
information
 low cost, open content to anyone
and easy to get access
 Put keywords here:
Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org

7. More Wiki resources
 1. http://www.scholarpedia.org/
esp for Physics
 2. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia

8. Slideshare for PPT
Homepage: http://www.slideshare.net

9. Slideshare
Social Media Content Sharing Site
Ability for you to share your
presentations with others
People can embed your presentations on
their sites
Create and get Slidecasts (slides
combined with Podcast.)
Upload PowerPoint, OpenOffice, PDF
Homepage: http://www.slideshare.net

10. Slideshare——Group Functions
Friending
Favoriting
Events
Can find and contact others with similar
interests

11. Slideshare
Advantages:
learn from others’ presentations
find writers, find employees, find
people for teleseminars, etc.
free to get valuable and direct
introduction materials

12. Slideshare
Or search the
keywords here
You can browse the
content by category
and go into your field.

13. Diigo
 Social bookmarking
 Favorite your interested website
Add your interested website here
Home Page: http://www.diigo.com

14. Diigo– Social Bookmarking
 Its full name is “Digest of Internet
Information, Groups and Other stuff”.
 a Social bookmarking website which
allows signed-up users to bookmark
and tag web-pages
 a powerful research tool and a
knowledge-sharing community
 be listed as one of the top 10 research
tools by CNET (Computer Network) in
2006

15. Diigo
 Accumulate your research topic or
interested subjects
 Find and connect with people
having common interests

16. Diigo
 a social way of searching
 Find the most popular bookmarks on
any subject
 Subscribe to the most recent
bookmarks by tags, sites, or users
 Get recommended content
 Get related content while browsing

17. Diigo ——You can search
 based on Tag or key words
 from “my bookmark” list
 Or from the whole diigo
 people with common interests based
 Or accumulate the group of people
while surfing Internet

18. Tips for reference searching
 Get a common sense of your interested
research topic through Wikipedia first,
then go further…
 Each slide of presentation contains
several-years wisdom of the author. So
try to use the www.slideshare.net to get
the most elite sectors or your interested
topic and different views from different
presenters. Then go further.

19. Tips for reference searching
 Use Diigo to:
 Accumulate your research topics or
interested subjects by Diigo and search
resources of a specific topic when needed
 Enlarge the group of people with common
interests and search them and their
accumulated resources when needed
To form an effective and efficient social way
of searching reference

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