the social web: wikis, rss, blogs, flickr, and more!
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The Social Web:Wikis, RSS, Blogs, Flickr, and MORE!
Iowa CityPublic Library
8 Dec 2006
Michael SauersInternet Trainer, BCR
What is the Social Web?
• Also known as social software and social networking.
• Allows you to share with your colleagues, friends, family and strangers.
• Allows you to share your writings, thoughts, videos, music, pictures and more.
Web 2.0“While the old Web was about Web sites, clicks, and
“eyeballs,” the new Web is about communities, participation and peering. As users and computer power multiply, and easy-to-use tools proliferate, the Internet is evolving into a global, living, networked computer that anyone can program. Even the simple act of participating in an online community makes a contribution to the new digital commons – whether one’s building a business on Amazon or producing a video clip for YouTube, creating a community around his or her flickr photo collection or editing the astronomy entry on Wikipedia.” – Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams
Features of the social web• Simple publishing• Tagging• Friends• Comments• Recommendations• Feed publishing• Share, share, share!
(Not all social services have all features)
Simple Publishing
• Little to no markup language skills necessary.
• Usually it’s create, click, and publish.
Tagging
• The act of adding descriptive keywords to an item.
• Simple metadata• “folksonomy”
Friends
• By making another account holder your “friend” you are automatically kept up to date with what that person is doing in the system.
Comments
• Submit your feelings on the creations of others.
• Others submit their feelings on your creations.
Recommendations
• Two styles– Automated based on previous experiences– User generated recommendations
Feed Publishing
• RSS / ATOM• Allows people to subscribe to your
information• Users receive information quickly and
with little effort on their part• Users have the control over the
information they receive
Examples of Social Software
• Wikis• Blogs• YouTube• Flickr• del.icio.us• last.fm
• LibraryThing• MySpace• SlideShare• Squidoo• Amazon.com• Second Life
Wikis
• A Web site “anyone” can edit with little knowledge of markup
• Allows for collaboration and sharing of information
Wikipedia
Blogs
• Online journals• Can be used in lieu of an RSS feed• Pew Internet & American Life Project
report on bloggers published 7/2006– 54% of bloggers are under the age of 30!– 37% of bloggers write about their “life and
experiences”
PaperCuts
YouTube
• Submit and share videos of up to 10 minutes in length
• Recently purchased by Google for $1.65 billion
• Subscribe to the videos of users• Comment on videos
My YouTube home page
Flickr
• Photographs– Share– Tag– Organize into sets– Contribute to group pools– Leave comments and notes– Send to your blog
My flickr home page
del.icio.us
• Social bookmarking service• Use in conjunction with or as a
replacement to your browser’s bookmarks
My del.icio.us home page
last.fm
• Share, tag, and recommend the music you listen to on your computer
• Integrates with iTunes, Windows Media Player, and WinAmp
• Client software, not a Web site
last.fm: Now Playing
LibraryThing
• Catalog, tag, and share your book collection.
• Yes, it does MARC records.
MySpace
• Friends, messaging, and blogging all wrapped up into most of the worst-designed Web pages ever
Waverly Public Library
SlideSahre
• Share and tag your PowerPoint presentations
• View and comment on others’ presentations
My SlideShare page
Squidoo
• Create and share online bibliographies• Bring in resources from traditional Web
sites, flickr, del.icio.us, and podcasts• A Squidoo page is known as a “lens”
Library 2.0 Reading List
Amazon.com
• Calling Amazon.com “social software” is a surprise to some but it does have most of the features:– tagging– recommendations– friends
Amazon.com’s social features
Second Life
• “A 3D online digital world imagined, created, & owned by its residents.”
• Social in the sense that users interact with other users
Second Life Library 2.0
A final thought…“It’s the simplest lesson of the Internet: it’s the
people stupid. We don’t have computers because we want to interact with machines; we have them because they allow us to communicate more effectively with other people.”─ Douglas Rushkoff, Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out
Questions?
Michael Sauers
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/
http://del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian/icpl2006
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