Slideshow available at: http:www.libs.uga.edu/presentations/lipsmacking.ppt

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Overview: Introductions Brief intro to Web 2.0

Blogging: Brief overview of what we are doing and blog/social networking choices

Fun stuff:

flickr (image hosting)

del.icio.us (bookmarking + tagging)

YouTube (video hosting)

Widgets (snapshots, meebo, twitter, etc.)

RSS feeds (technorati, pageflakes, etc.) +Mashups

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So, how can libraries tap into this?

A little more about Web 2.0:

Web 2.0 technologies provide an easy way to store, describe, share, discover, organize and create information in a way that makes sense to user

Web 2.0 is collaborative·Web 2.0 technologies provide an ease of use (little or no coding

experience needed) Web 2.0 facilitate discovery (e.g., the ability to share, recommend,

or discover resources from other users) Power to the people!

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Blogging: One of the easiest way to tap into Web 2.0 technologies is through

the use of blogging. We have been blogging since January 2005.

We use Wordpress (open source software) hosted on the libraries server

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·A little about Wordpress Wordpress

Advantages/Disadvantages

Customizing

Wordpress MU

How it differs from regular Wordpress

Advantages/Disadvantages

What if you can’t host a blog?

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Blogging:Free choices hosted elsewhere:

Blogger

Wordpress.com

TypePad

Why would you want to blog?

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Blogging Reasons to Blog/social network:

PR/Marketing

Subscription via RSS feeds; also ability to embed content into other websites (pageflakes etc.)

Ease of updating website

Instant updating/editing

Provide a more informal “face” to the library

Push out content to users, i.e. be in their space

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Blogging: Guidelines & writing style sheets

Finding contributors

To comment or not to comment

High ranking pages in Google

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The Fun Stuff Image hosting (free) - Flickr

Free and easy to use

Paid accounts have more privileges, but free accounts can get the job done

Uses for blogging and websites

Flickr toys (slideshows, etc.)

Networking

Creative commons/licensing

Find graphics and images for use

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flickrLibraries/librarians doing neat things with flickr

•LibraryMan (Michael Porter) http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman

•Dewey Graduate Library - University at Albanyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ualibraries

•NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Centerhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc/

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Image hosting - Flickr

Fun stuff to do in your blog or website with flickr

Slideshows

Flickr badges

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Social bookmarking – del.icio.us

Free and easy to use

Uses for you or your library

Centralized storage of resources/links lists in del.icio.us

Easy to update – no coding necessary

Bookmarks travel with you – never lose them!

Resource sharing and Discovery (recommend links, find popular links by tag, etc.)

Private or shared

Pathfinders/guides for individual classes

Bibliographies

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Social bookmarking – del.icio.us

Uses for websites and blogging

Del.icio.us toys (links list, tag clouds, etc.)

Networking

Resource sharing and discovery

Easy maintenance of links lists

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Social bookmarking - del.icio.us

Nashville Public Library – TeenWeb http://www.library.nashville.org/teens/teenweb.asp

College of New Jersey – Italian Studies Pathfinderhttp://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html

UGA Libraries

Cataloging Resources

Weird & Wacky Web Watching

Video hosting (free) – YouTube

Free and easy to use; accepts most formats; no need to convert!

Videocasting

Provides easy way to get videos on the web

Embed into blog posts

Is now owned by Google

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Uses

Embed videos in blogs, presentations, websites, etc

Storage space (no need to store large size videos on server)

Networking

Resource sharing and Discovery

Videocasting

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Video hosting – YouTube

•Day in the life of the Library - St. Joseph County Public Libraryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtYdFV_Eak

•Installing a new OS on library computershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIrxuF5NSo

•Why do NJ patrons love their libraries?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeQI25n8qPQ

•Guide to the library – from Williams Collegehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-t0LHnw-fc

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Video hosting – YouTube

Wonderful world of widgets What is a widget?

Widgets are just little tools which are generally easy to install in a user interface. Widgets can be embedded in blogs and websites (snapshots, flickr toys, etc.), downloaded for use on the desktop or on a mobile device. Blogger and wordpress are both utilizing widgets more. Pageflakes, a free web based service, uses widgets to put the page together. Pageflakes widgets include RSS feeds, flickr, and even static webpages.

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Wonderful world of widgets

Widgets make it easy to embed third party content (flickr, YouTube, etc.) or even code into websites with little or no coding experience. Widgetbox is an excellent resource!

Widgets are frequently drop n drag or copy and paste.

Examples of widgets to embed in websites: flickr slideshows, YouTube movies, snapshots, links lists, etc.

Pageflakes and netvibes are two widget based services

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Meebo provides a single interface to AIM, Yahoo, MSN Chat

Meebo widgets are embeddable

> Meebo in action

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Snapshots provide a popup preview of links.

A little about RSS feeds What are RSS feeds?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication

RSS provides an easy way for users to find and subscribe to information. Makes content portable to other web pages.

Feedburner

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A little about Mashups

What is a Mashup?

In web terms, a mashup takes content or data from different sources or services to create a new thing

An example of a mashup is Flickr Maps which uses both images from Flickr and Google Maps

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Lip-smacking Good: Resources

Web 2.0 Minipresentation:

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dkcxvp2_7d7ms9d

Web 2.0 movie:

This presentation:

Slideshare

Del.icio.us

Handouts at googledocs

Contact:

Amy, amywatts@uga.edu

Robin, fay@uga.edu

http://www.robinfay.net

fay@uga.edu

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