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Web 2.0 The next steps
Phil Bradley
4th May 2007
So, what else can we do?
• Create shared calendars– 30 boxes at http://30boxes.com/welcome.php
• Sort out meetings without clashes– Meet with approval at
http://www.meetwithapproval.com/
• Use an entire office suite– ThinkFree at
http://www.thinkfree.com/common/main.tfo
Communication resources
• Create a bulletin board/forum– Quicktopic at http://www.quicktopic.com/
• Embed chat onto a page– Chatcreator at
http://www.chatcreator.com/chatbox/
• Create small or large networks– Grou.ps at http://grou.ps/learn_more.do
Send/copy files
• Share/access files online– Box at http://www.box.net/
• Send large files– Whalemail http://www.whalemail.com/
• Share snippets– Cl1p at http://cl1p.net/philb
Discover new resources
• Books– Literature map at http://literature-map.com/
• Music– Music map at http://www.music-map.com/
• Movies– MyFilmz at http://myfilmz.net/
• Disposable addresses– Spambob at http://spambob.com/
• Send newsletters to clients– Mailchimp at http://www.mailchimp.com/
• Send yourself email– Futureme at http://futureme.org/
Humour
• Comic strip generator at http://www.comicstripgenerator.com/maker.asp
• Custom signs at http://www.customsigngenerator.com/
• Trading cards at http://www.flickr.com/groups/librariancards/
Annotate webpages and share
• Wizlite at http://wizlite.com/
• MyStickies at http://www.mystickies.com/
• Mapping services at http://www.frappr.com/
More on search
• Create your own rankings and share them with a group using Collarity at http://www.collarity.com/
• Aftervote at http://www.aftervote.com/
New Resources
• Netvibes adding shared pages
• Annotating the web– Trailfire– Stickis– ShiftSpace– Fleck
• Social networking– Genwi is a media social network, save and
share, news items, blog posts, video clips, podcasts, feeds, people, all with user profiles, messaging, add friends, voting, comments, add widgets to your profile.
– ShareThis Mash Facebook, AIM, MySpace and email contacts into one list.
– Huddle This is a network of secure online spaces that combine document, project and team tools with the simplicity of social networking. Pricing from £4.99 a month. Freebie version also available.
• Communication– Revish If you love reading and sharing your
reading experiences you're in the right place! Revish lets you write reviews of any books you read, maintain a reading list and share it with friends etc.
– Plugoo Great for communication– Msgr Create your own instant messenger– Instacomment is a service allowing website
owners to add an instant comment system to their pages.
• Page creation tools– Nowsy Another start page like Pageflakes or
Netvibes. – Tumblr is pretty much a link blog, but a very
simple straightforward one from what I can see. Great as a sort of scrapbook thing to alert friends and colleagues to what you've found.
– BT Tradespace Create your own website with BT.
– Wik.is is another wiki creation tool
Web 2.0 as anarchic technology
• What is the role of the information professional?– Publisher– Researcher– Collaborator– Instigator
• What is the role of the tech department?
• What is the role of the PR department?
More on roles
• When we can do what we want easily, and by ourselves, how does that affect the organization?
• How much control can the organization have? Or should have?
• Is a blocking strategy acceptable any longer? In fact, can it continue to work?
Further implications
• ‘Good enough’ is actually ‘good enough’
• Just do it! Perfection is not important
• The end of the traditional software cycle
• Taking a leap of faith
• Playing aka professional updating increasingly important
• Customers are collaborators – traditional roles rapidly changing
Let’s be realistic here…
• How many of you can actually DO this stuff?
• Points for discussion– Which resource(s) excite you most and why?– What obstacles are you going to find?– Who gets in the way?– How can you implement this?– What strategies can you employ?
Just when you thought it was safe to look at the screen again…
• Wikis - Advantages– Collaborative– Always available 24/7 for updating– Great for currency– Can invite anyone to use them– Reasonably easy to use– Create as many pages as you need
• Wikis – disadvantages– Who is doing what?– Control issues– Someone has to take charge– Can be complicated to set up or use– No stamp of authority– Spam problem– Disagreements need a referee– Backups needed– What if the hosting service dies?
• Portal services – advantages– Easy to set up– Collaborative– Various modules/elements easy to
incorporate– May simply be one screen– News/blog tracking services keep everything
current– Set up without consulting the organization
• Portal services – disadvantages– 3rd party– May be complicated– May require a lot of looking after– All the eggs in one basket– Private is private, but public may be very
public– The organization may be associated to
inappropriate material
• Weblogs – advantages– Currency– Authority– Easy to set up and use– Always available– Multiple types of data– Real resource and archival functionality– RSS for easy data manipulation– Incorporate various other resources– Multiple authors
• Weblogs – disadvantages– Single voice(s)– Limited ability to collaborate– ‘But it’s a diary!’– Hamster on a treadmill– Spam– Challenge to the organization
Wikis Portals and Weblogs
• Which is best when?• What can you see working?• What isn’t going to work• When is it going to be a challenge too far?• How will it/they improve your work flow?• What are the advantages to the
information professional?• Implementation!
Resources to keep you up to date
• My ‘I want to’ weblog at http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/
• Techcrunch at http://www.techcrunch.com/
• My ‘I want to’ web pages at http://www.philb.com/iwantto.htm
• Search engine land at http://searchengineland.com
Thank you for listening!
• Phil Bradley
• http://www.philb.com
• http://www.philbradley.typepad.com/
• http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/