Using Web 2'0 resources in your library

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Using Web 2.0 resources in your library

• Phil Bradley
• http//www.philb.com

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What is Web 2.0?

• Lets just not go there shall we?
• Definitions are less important than what you can
  do with it
• Oh, if you really insist

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What is Web 2.0?

• Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived
  ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a
  collection of websites to a full-fledged
  computing platform serving web applications to
  end users. Ultimately Web 2.0 services are
  expected to replace desktop computing
  applications for many purposes.
• Wikipedia entry

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• Web 1.0 was computer based

• Web 2.0 uses the web as a platform

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• Web 1.0 relied on installed software

• Web 2.0 uses the browser

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• Web 1.0 was solitary

• Web 2.0 encourages sharing

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• Web 1.0 was individuals working alone

• Web 2.0 is community, sharing wisdom

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• Web 1.0 was data in one place

• Web 2.0 is the portability of data

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• Web 1.0 was about consuming (data)

• Web 2.0 is about creating data
• Weblogs
• Photograph sharing
• Wikis
• Collaborative resources
• Social networking
• Bookmarking

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• Web 1.0 was home pages

• Web 2.0 is weblogs

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• Web 1.0 was tracking information down

• Web 2.0 is having information come to you

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• Web 1.0 was badging your content

• Web 2.0 is getting the answer out there quickly

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• Web 1.0 was slow transfer rates

• Web 2.0 is about broadband

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• Web 1.0 was hardware s

• Web 2.0 is broadband s

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• Web 1.0 was getting it perfect

• Web 2.0 is doing it and moving on

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• Web 1.0 was stationary

• Web 2.0 is mobile

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• Web 1.0 was about limitations

• Web 2.0 is about a state of mind

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Yes but?

• Its vacuous marketing hype
• Web 2.0 is totally silly
• Meaningless
• is made entirely of pretentious self serving
  morons.
• a lot of thin but very hot air blown at you by
  those who are convinced that having nothing to
  say is by no means a good reason to shut up.

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So

• Is it a question of degrees of difference?

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Or

• A difference of kind? (Is it or isnt it a fad?)

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OK so how can I use it?

• Weblogs
• Create a library weblog
• Additional or new library resources
• Introduce members of staff
• Use it as a repository of data and information by
  using categories and tags
• Dont regard a weblog as a diary its an
  important website in its own right

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Weblogs continued

• Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home page as
  a news feed
• Encourage people to add the feed to their start
  page or RSS reader
• Create a different weblog for a different subject
  area invite other authors
• Use it in a different way, on a different page

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News reports from the BBC
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So what exactly is RSS again?

• Really Simple Search
• Rich Site Summary
• Read some stories
• Newsfeeds
• Its a common way of transferring data from one
  resource to another one

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• The version a human being sees

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• The RSS version
• Phil Bradley's weblog
• http//philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblo
  g/
• Internet searching, web design, search engine
  developments and anything that will interest
  librarians!
• en-GB
• 2007-02-23T1057530000 Egypt blogger jailed
  for 'insult'
• http//philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblo
  g/2007/02/egypt_blogger_j.html
• Egyptian blogger jailed for 'insult'. Abdel
  Kareem Soliman has been jailed for four years for
  criticising and insulting Islam and the
  president. He'd used his weblog to take a swipe
  at the country's top Islamic institution. The
  link goes to...
• ltpgtlta href"http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middl
  e_east/6385849.stm" title"BBC NEWS World
  Middle East Egypt blogger jailed for
  'insult'"gtEgyptian blogger jailed for
  'insult'lt/agt. Abdel Kareem Soliman has been
  jailed for four years for criticising and
  insulting Islam and the president. He'd used his
  weblog to take a swipe at the country's top
  Islamic institution. The link goes to the BBC
  story.lt/pgt
• Current Affairs
• philipbradley
• 2007-02-23T1057530000
• Google charges for web programs
• http//philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblo
  g/2007/02/google_charges_.html

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• Each RSS resource has its own URL and other
  applications can point to that URL, gather the
  data and display it in a different format.

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RSS and search
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So, what else can I do with RSS?

• Add to content to webpages

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• Add content to a news aggregator

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• Add content to a start page

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• Keep current with comments and updates

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• In conclusion therefore RSS brings data to you,
  and allows you to send it out to other places.

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Using news aggregators

• Such as Bloglines or the Google Reader
• Keep up to date
• Up to the minute
• Create your own searches
• Use these to create your own news feeds
• Combine these and publish them for users

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Podcasts

• Provide access to audio content
• Guides/tours around a library

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Podcasts 2

• Content that cant easily be made available in
  other formats
• Content that is accessible on the move
• Not time or place dependent.

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Start Pages

• Pageflakes
• Netvibes
• Collate data into one place
• Not machine dependent
• Good for
• Links
• Email
• Search engines
• RSS feeds
• Weather
• Etc

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Start Pages
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Using start pages

• Individually
• As a group
• Share tabbed pages
• Alternative to email contact
• To Do lists
• Note pads
• Always immediately available

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Bookmarking

• Limited to a specific machine
• Not informative
• Difficult to find what you want
• Inflexible
• Cannot easily share bookmarks

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What are the alternatives?

• Del.icio.us
• Diigo
• Raw Sugar

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You can

• Share your bookmarks
• Between computers
• Between colleagues
• Between users
• Create bookmark sets
• To supplement projects
• To assist users
• Annotate (or tag) bookmarks

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Great for searching!

• http//del.icio.us/tag/ltsearch_termgt

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Get an RSS feed automatically

• http//del.icio.us/rss/tag/insert your tag here

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Search builders

• Create your own search engines
• Limit to trusted sites
• As small as you want, as large as you need
• Use the given URL or
• Cut and paste onto your own site
• Use them and then throw them

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That would be

• Rollyo
• Google Custom Search Builder
• Eurekster swicki
• Yahoo Search builder

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And

• Topicle
• Quintura

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Collaborate on knowledge

• Provide content onto a webpage
• Items, notes, articles
• Links to news or blogs
• Search functions
• Video options
• Let others collaborate

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Creating communities

• Zimbio
• Flickr
• Grou.ps
• Plum
• Squidoo
• Pageflakes
• Facebook

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Flickr
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Squidoo
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Facebook
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Wikis
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Wikis

• LIS wiki
• Library success wiki
• Wikipedia
• Peanut butter wiki

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Instant messaging

• Email is for old people
• Talk instantly back and forth
• Share files (or not!)
• Share webcam discussions
• Group chat
• IM from webpages
• Create chatrooms

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Instant Messenger Services
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Using

• Plugoo
• Gabbly Chat
• Meebo rooms

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Collaborate

• On documents Google docs
• On spreadsheets - NumSum
• With calendars - Planzo
• With training - Jybe
• With projects MyWebDesktop
• With To Do lists TaDaList
• With webpages Conversate

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Combine everything!

• With RSS and other Web 2.0 resources anything can
  work with anything else
• Content can be changed and manipulated into
  different formats that you control
• Users can get involved
• Geography doesnt matter
• Speed is easy
• Its not technical!

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So why not

• Create search engines for subject groups
• Get users involved with a Zimbio group on an
  aspect of ltwhatevergt?
• Create a Squidoo lens for a subject?
• Start a library weblog?
• Create a flickr group

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Or

• A podcast or a radio station, both involving
  music students
• A Pageflakes page that you can share with
  colleagues
• Create del.icio.us or FURL accounts and share
  them
• Start a wiki for all the librarians in the area

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Or even

• Use instant messaging to provide information in a
  different way
• Create a book reading club using LibraryThing,
  Amazon and a weblog
• Have a library tour on YouTube

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Or even

• Create trading cards from Flickr photographs
• Create fun/interesting new posters
• Set up a Facebook, Bebo, MySpace account for the
  library
• Share presentations with Slideshare.net

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• BUT

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Expect

• It cant be done
• We dont have the resources
• Bandwidth problems
• Security issues
• Write a proposal
• Not your job
• Not enough time

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• AND

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Ignore it! Because Web 2 is changing

• The way we use the web
• The way we use information
• The way we find information
• The way we do our jobs
• The way we interact with people
• The way that we look at everything

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• FOREVER

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Final thoughts

• Librarians must be like Krishna! And descend
  into the world to combat ignorance! S.R.
  Ranganathan
• The librarian must be the librarian militant
  before he can be the librarian triumphant.
  Melvil Dewey

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Want more?
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Acknowledgements

• Slide 5 http//www.nasa.gov
• Slide 7 http//www.bbc.co.uk
• Slide 9 http//thederringdos.com/
• Slide 9 http//www.problogger.net/wp-content/spi
  ders-web.jpg
• Slide 10 http//www.vorkt.com/
• Slide 10 http//www.nps.gov/
• Slide 11 http//www.tailoredtime.com/
• Slide 11 http//www.letsgomobile.org/
• Slide 13 http//www.ctp.co.uk/
• Slide 13 http//www.hereticpress.com/
• Slide 14 http//www.stdmfg.com/
• Slide 14 http//ecx.images-amazon.com/
• Slide 15 http//www.stainedglassoriginals.com
• Slide 15 http//img.thesun.co.uk/

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Thank you!

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