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Norwich Public Library, July 21, 2009

Most People Go Online to Socialize-- More than twice as many people go online to socialize (81%) than to do business (39%) or shop (31%).

-People seek education and entertainment: most people go online both to learn (88%) and have fun (83%).

-- 72% of people go online just to become part of a community.

-- Almost half of people (47%) go online to learn to improve themselves and nearly one-third (31%) to find self-help experts or books.

-- The desire to learn drives people to the Internet; top areas are new subjects (68%), the world (65%), a disease or condition (61%), eating healthier (55%) and managing finances (37%).

-- Seniors are going online today for the same reasons younger people are; to have fun (82%) and to socialize (80%).

- More people go online to connect via a social networking site (41%) than to post comments or opinions (34%).

- More men (42%) than women (36%) go online to do business.

-55% of women go online to find venues for personal expression compared to only 43% of men.

from PR Agency Ruder Finn

• Photo sharing web site (some video too)

• Free for basic accounts (upload 2

videos and 100MB worth of photos

each calendar month. • Upload,edit,

organize, share, maps, create.

• Upload from your phone, desktop, or send by email

• Edit your photo—crop, eliminate red eye, etc.

• Maps—share where your photos are taken

• Organize-tag, create sets and collections

• Create stuff—albums, order prints, DVD’s

Go to: Brooks Memorial Library account

BLOGS

• “Weblog” is a type of website usually maintained by an individual where entries and commentary are fairly quickly done. Entries usually displayed in reverse chronological order.

• Free web-based software• Blogger, Wordpress

BLOGS

• Sign in with Google account• Choose template• Post entries ( HTML editor; spell check)• Post photos or video• Add labels or tags• RSS feeds notify blog followers• Post by phone or email• Create team blog for collaboration• 3rd party applications like Flickr, Library

thing.• Use hit counters and statistics like

Google analytics.Go to: Musings Vermont; Reference Librarian's Blog; Teen Brooks Blog

• Twitter is a microblog on the web where you have 140 characters to say “what are you doing now.”

Twitter: A quick tourTwitter in Plain English

• Feb 2009, 3rd most used social network. Monthly growth rate of 1382%

A circa 2000 blueprint sketch by Jack Dorsey, envisioning a SMS-based social network.

"The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful," says Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School.

• The rankings as of January 2009

The Cons

Blogger Kathy Sierra explains in a post, Is Twitter Too Good?

Twitter scares me. For all its popularity, I see at least three issues: 1) it's a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable

reward, the key addictive element of slot machines. 2) The strong "feeling of connectedness" Twitterers get can trick the brain into

thinking it's having a meaningful social interaction, while another (ancient) part of the brain "knows" something crucial to human survival is missing.

3) Twitter is yet another--potentially more dramatic--contribution to the problems of always-on multi-tasking ... you can't be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep thought and/or a flow state.

The Twitter Curve by Kathy Sierra

OK, let’s go a twittering

http://www.twitter.com

Twitter apps• TwitpicIs a web based Twitter application that

allows the uploading of photo and/or video to your tweet.

• TweetdeckIs a desktop application that allows you

to fully use the Twitter experience—uploading photos; shortening URL’s;tracking groups; tracking one twitter account; tracking keywords. By using columns across your screen it gives you different slices of your Twitter environment.

Further references

• Flynn, Montana (2009-04-08). "HOW TO: #Hashtags on twitter (#quote, #followfriday, etc..)".

• Twitter Basics: How to use twitter.

• HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog--How to Use Twitter for Marketing &PR

• Hawaiian for “fast”

• A web site that uses wiki software to create interlinked web pages quickly

Wiki

Wiki Survey

What does a wiki allow you

to do?

Invites users to collaborate

Allows users to create links between

subjects or topics

Ease of creation or editing

Wiki

Wiki edits.

Users can see history of edits in an article

Editors through the revision history can restore an edit if an unacceptable one has been entered

For public wikis critics state that malicious and false informaton can be entered. Supporters say that the community of users will correct this.

Wiki Trust

What are some real life wiki applications locally?

Wikis are used to enable community involvement, e.g.,

The Brattleboro Brain Trust

Wiki

Use at Brooks Library

Wikis are used to manage knowledge

in organizations, e.g., BMLReference wiki

Created as ready reference toolby Library School student Jessica Weitz.

Used to track Brattleboro Area resources

such as health, hotlines, Town info, children’s services, etc

Staff who work on the reference desk has

access

Brooks Memorial Library Reference Wiki

Wiki Example

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From Wikipedia (accessed on July 14, 2009)

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