information overload

Staying up to dateWeb 2.0 tools

Julia Gross

The session is about…

• Information explosion

• Information overload

• New formats

• New technologies

Why are we overloaded?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/callumscott2/280532292/

• Change

• Technology

• Learning

• Trends

• Stay in touch

• Multitasking

• Chaos

Why are we overloaded?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tzofia/270800047/ BrittneyBush's photostream

Why do we need to keep up?

• Need to keep learning (lifelong)

• Be informed

• To our jobs

• Help students & staff

• Career

• Life

Web 1.0 ways to keep up

• Journals, books

• Conferences, seminars, PD

• Professional (ALIA)

• Listservs (WAIN)

• Forums

• Email – the killer!!

Keeping up with email

• File

• Use folders

• Sort

• Scan from reading window pane

• Delete

• Bulk delete

Keeping up with listservs

• WAIN

• Get digests

• Scan

• File

Web 2.0 and keeping up ….

Web 2.0 content…

• Blogs, quick read

• Podcasts, download to iPod

• SlideShare

• Flickr

• YouTube

• Twitter

Follow (learn from) other people

–Web 2.0 gurus

–their blogs, bookmarks, presentations, Twitter feed, podcasts, video

Two web 2.0 organising tools

• RSS

• Social bookmarking– Delicious

• Reference management– Connotea

– CiteUlike

– Zotero

– EndnoteWeb

Google updating tools

• RSS into your iGoogle page

• Google Reader RSS

• Google Alerts

iGoogle start page

Google account

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

Keeping up - 10 mins a day

File to social bookmarking

Tag to for later retrieval

Scan RSS feeds, email alerts

Select items of interest

Thanks …questions?