Social Software for Library People: Jeffco Public Library Staff Day, 2008
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social software for
library peopleSteve Lawson
Humanities Librarian, Colorado College
stevelawson.name/seealso
what are we talking about?
web 2.0 ?library 2.0 ?
read / write web ?social software ?
the web
according to Meredith Farkas:
Social software must do at least two of the following:
1. allows people to communicate, collaborate, & build community online
2. can be syndicated, shared, reused, or remixed (or facilitates same)
3. lets people learn easily from & capitalize on the behavior or knowledge of others
fearfully anticipated questions
fearfully anticipated question number one:
“why should I care about this stuff at all?”
as library people
“Social software seems like a free and easy way to give your library a human face on the larger Internet.… I feel that it’s all of our responsibility as online community members of various stripes, to provide positive examples of social software online.”
— Jessamyn West
facebook pages
myspace profiles
flickr photos
share
professional& personalnetworking
maybe you don’t need to care
I feel as if most of us aren’t understanding this. Social Media is not for everyone for one reason alone: Not everyone wants to socialize online 24/7.
- Corvida, “It’s OK to Ignore Social Media” on SheGeeks
blogorwiki?
blogs for libraries
blogs for librarians
blogs for…other things
wikipedia: article
wikipedia: edit
wikipedia: history
wikipedia: fight talk
wikis for library people
wikis for sharing
pop quiz: blog or wiki?
• Travel diary• Planning a party• Library subject guides• Local model rocketry club• Private site for planning a home
rennovation
fearfully anticipated question number two:
“how do you find interesting sites?”
technorati.com
http://fishingjones.com/
find new social sites
contextual egomania
this stuff looks stupid from the
outside
does she really have 860 “friends?”
who cares about his cat?
and just what is a “poke?”
danah boyd
participants on social network sites “write their community into being through the process of Friending. In doing so, they help define themselves and the context in which they are operating.”
danah boyd
“While most participants surf the site through the networks themselves, most newcomers and non-participants use the search feature and are absolutely horrified by what they may see.”
connecting with the past
connecting with people around you
concoct games
folksonomics
del.icio.us/bevedog
del.icio.us/tag
flickr.com/photos/tags
Flickr tag clusters
http://www.librarything.com/tagcloud.php
LibraryThing tagmash
the del.icio.us lesson:
“personal value precedes network value”-Joshua Porter
useless?
tagging ≠ panaceaAnn ArborDistrict Library
LibraryThing
tagging
fearfully anticipated question number three:
when do you find the time for all this?
do it at work
“Library administrators and managers need to lead this change in their organizations. One way they can do this is to provide time, equipment, and training in order to successfully implement these new tools into the library’s digital space.”
— David Lee King
“cognitive surplus”
According to Clay Shirky:
Creation of Wikipedia to date =100 million hours
Watch TV / year in the USA = 200 billion hours
imashination
social software make sharing easier
Flickr URL: http://flickr.com/photos/theparadigmshifter/436729333/
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embed video
embed video
blog photos
feeds
Surround and penetrate social software and bind the World Wide Web together
-Jason Griffey / Obi-Wan Kenobi
feed for a blog
blog feed in Google Reader
blog feed in netvibes
Flickr feeds
YouTube feeds
api=
application programming interface
=magical pixie dust
fearfully anticipated question number 4:
do you really expect us to do all of this stuff?
no
but here is your homework, should you
choose to accept it:
• choose three social software sites and sign up for them
• use them for two weeks• choose one to keep using for a
month• see what happens…
thanks!
slides, links, photo creditsare here:
http://stevelawson.name/jeffco2008