This document provides an overview and demonstration of four Web 2.0 tools - Delicious, Flickr, Wordpress, and Zotero. For each tool, it describes the basic functionality, how to sign up and navigate the interface, and examples of how libraries have used the tool. It also includes recommendations for additional resources on using these tools in a library context.

1. Web 2.0 Tools &
Applications in
Libraries
Nicole C. Engard @nengard
Vice President of Education, ByWater Solutions
Author: The Accidental Systems Librarian 2d

2. Outline
● Live demos/hands on with
four Web 2.0 tools:
○ Delicious
○ Flickr
○ Wordpress
○ Zotero

3. Delicious
Me: http://delicious.com/nengard

4. Delicious
www.delicious.com
● Online bookmarking
○ Save all of your bookmarks in the cloud
○ Access them from any computer
○ Tag them for easy searching and recovery
○ Create stacks (like folders) to organize them
● Link Sharing
○ Find your friends and create a network
○ Save links publicly and share them
○ RSS feeds for your links

5. Bookmarking
● Sign up for free
● Add a bookmarklet or plugin to your browser
○ Find a page you like and bookmark it
● Import your local bookmarks or bookmarks
from another service

6. Navigating
● Click on tags to see all links
● Search for tags, keywords & people
● Browse stacks

7. Learn more
● Social Bookmarking & Del.icio.us: A
Personal and Professional
Productivity Tool
○ http://slidesha.re/delciouslib
● Delicious Help
○ http://delicious.com/help

8. Flickr
Me: http://flickr.com/photos/nengard

9. Flickr
www.flickr.com
● Photo sharing
○ upload and share photos
● Photo cataloging
○ add location metadata
○ add tags
○ add people
● Camera Finder
○ built from metadata on images

10. Pricing
Free account Pro Accounts are $24.95/yr
● 300 MB monthly photo upload ● Unlimited photo uploads (20MB
limit (15MB per photo) per photo)
● 2 video uploads each month (90 ● Unlimited video uploads (90
seconds max, 150MB per video) seconds max, 500MB per video)
● Photostream views limited to the ● The ability to show HD Video
200 most recent images ● Unlimited storage & bandwidth
● Post any of your photos in up to ● Archiving of high-res original
10 group pools images
● Only smaller (resized) images ● The ability to replace a photo
accessible (though the originals ● Post any of your photos or
are saved in case you upgrade videos in up to 60 group pools
later) ● Ad-free browsing and sharing
● View count and referrer
statistics

11. Signing Up
● Sign up with your account from:
○ Facebook
○ Google
○ Yahoo!
● Or create a Yahoo! account

12. Navigating
● On the homepage you see options for:
○ Your Photostream
■ Your recent photos
○ Recent Photos
■ Photos from/of your friends
○ Your Groups
■ Photos added to your groups
○ Explore
■ Random interesting photos
● Search box in the top right

13. Uploading Images
Images can be uploaded with various
tools:
● Flickr website (link on right of home)
● Flickr Uploadr (download to desktop)
○ flickr.com/tools/uploadr/
● Upload via email
○ flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail
● MobileApps

14. Librarian Groups
● 365 Days Library Project
○ flickr.com/groups/365libs/
● Libraries & Librarians
○ flickr.com/groups/librariesandlibrarians/
● ReadPosters
○ flickr.com/groups/readposters/
● Search for more:
○ flickr.com/search/groups/

15. Ordering Prints
You can order prints through Flickr
partners:
● Snapfish (www.snapfish.com)
○ Can be done through Flickr itself
● QOOP(www.qoop.
com/direct_upload/directUpload.php)

16. Learn more
● Flickr for Libraries:
○ www.slideshare.net/nengard/flickr-
for-libaries
● Flickr FAQ:
○ flickr.com/help/faq/
● Flickr Forums:
○ flickr.com/help/forum/

17. Wordpress
Me: http://web2learning.net
and many many many more!

18. Wordpress
● Open Source Content Management
System
○ wordpress.org
● Freely hosted blog/website
○ wordpress.com
● Not strictly Web 2.0 but provides
many Web 2.0 tools for your website

19. Why Wordpress?
● No programming knowledge
necessary
● Easy to navigate
● Built in search engine
● Thousands of plugins/extensions
● Thousands of pre-made themes
● Tons of online documentation & help
● Lots of Web 2.0 integration!

20. Wordpress as a CMS
● It’s for more than just blogging
● Allows for multiple users/
permissions
● No need for system admin -
anyone can upgrade/edit files
● Easy, Easy, Easy!

21. Wordpress for Libraries
● WP4Lib (Community for Libraries
using Wordpress)
○ http://wp4lib.bluwiki.com
● Wordpress in Libraries
○ http://www.wpinlibraries.org

22. Wordpress Presentations
People to follow on SlideShare:
● Stephanie Leary www.slideshare.
net/stephanieleary
● Syed Balkhi www.slideshare.
net/wpbeginner
● Andrea Rennick www.slideshare.
net/AndreaRennick

23. Wordpress Books
● Leary, Stephanie. Beginning WordPress 3. 1st ed.
Apress, 2010.
● Jones, Kyle, and Polly-Alida Farrington. Using
WordPress as a library content management system.
Vol. 47. Library Technology Reports 3. Chicago IL: ALA
TechSource, 2011.
● Hedengren,Thord Daniel. Smashing WordPress:
Beyond the Blog. Wiley, 2010.
● Tomasi, Chuck, and Kreg Steppe. Sams Teach Yourself
WordPress 3 in 10 Minutes. 1st ed. Sams, 2010.
● Beck, Jessica Neuman, and Matt Beck. 2009.
WordPress:Visual QuickStart Guide. [S.l.]: Peachpit
Press.

24. Zotero
Me: http://www.zotero.org/nengard

25. Zotero
www.zotero.org
● Collect, organize, cite, and share your
research sources
● Open Source online bibliography tool
● Firefox plugin and Standalone edition
● Share resources publicly or keep them
private
● Join and create groups for sharing

26. Signing Up
● Sign up for free
● Install the plugin or application
● Find resources and save them!
● Attach PDFs for storage (more storage costs
$$)

27. Groups
● Web 2.0 in Education: zotero.
org/groups/web_2.0_in_education/items
● Adventures in Library Instruction: zotero.
org/groups/adventures_in_library_instruction/ite
ms
● Free/Libre and Open Source Software and
Libraries Bibliography: zotero.
org/groups/freelibre_and_open_source_softwar
e_and_libraries_bibliography/items

28. Learn More
● Puckett, Jason. Zotero : a Guide for
Librarians, Researchers, and Educators.
Chicago: Association of College and
Research Libraries, 2011.
● Puckett, Jason. “Zotero Research Guide.”
Library Research Guides at Georgia State
University, n.d. http://research.library.gsu.
edu/zotero.

29. Policies

30. Social Media Policies
● Many libraries want to write up policies once
they start using these tools - check out these
links for more info:
○ www.web2learning.net/archives/1250
○ www.web2learning.net/archives/2967
○ www.schoollibraryjournal.
com/article/CA6699104.html
● Policy Generator: socialmedia.policytool.net

31. Thank You!
Slides:
web2learning.net > Publications &
Presentations
Nicole C. Engard @nengard
nengard@gmail.com