Assembling your Web 2.0 toolbox

VITTA & SLAV - Live to learn: Learn to blog Ivanhoe Grammar School – 30 August 2007

Camilla Elliott

Network Resource Manager/ Head Teacher Librarian

St Joseph’s College, Mildura, Vic. 3500

www.linkingforlearning.com

celliott@sjcmda.vic.edu.au

Web 2.0 – Read/Write Web

http://www.go2web20.net/

Tim O’Reilly - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

http://kosmar.de/archives/2005/11/11/the-huge-cloud-lens-bubble-map-web20/

Content

RSS feeds

Social Bookmarking

RSS - What is it?

Really Simple Syndicationor Rich Site Summaryor RDF Site Summary...... it’s all the same thing

Information Flow is Simplified

To You via Aggregator

•Blogs

•Wikis

•News Sites

•Databases

•Websites

•Flickr

From Many To One

RSS – it’s everywhere

Before RSSFew wire services and news channelsWriters worked for traditional media outlets

With RSSEveryone can be a “news” publisherEveryone can be a “news” writer/producer

Getting your RSS feeds

Web Based recommended◦ Accessible from any computer◦ Free◦ Examples:

Definition: Tool used for reading RSS feeds

2007 MS Outlook – limited access if you have no access to webmail

Sample: Outlook 2007 mail

Sources of RSS feeds

2RSS http://2rss.com/

Feedster http://www.feedster.com

BBC Newsfeeds http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm

NASA http://www.nasa.gov/rss/index.html

Librarians’ Index to the Internet http://lii.org/

Google News http://news.google.com/

Microsoft Feeds Directory – http://www.microsoft.com/rss/

Linking for learning/RSS -

http://www.linkingforlearning.com/web20/index.html#rss

This is just a few

The Power of RSS

“Donning my lii.org hat, we had a remarkable education when we added RSS feeds [to our newsletters]. Now people find us through the blog-finding agents. Librarians, including me, suck at marketing, but by adding RSS feeds,we stumbled onto a way for the audience to find us, instead of the glacially slow process of dissemination through our existing readership.”

Karen Schneider - Free Range Librarian

http://freerangelibrarian.com/archives/012905/lists_versus_blogs_.php

Where to start?

1. Become familiar with RSS/webfeeds concept

2. Get reader and start

3. Find an RSS feed

4. Subscribe

5. Watch the ‘feeds’ build up

6. Read new content in one place at your leisure

RSS

http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go

Amateur researchersPoor quality taggingSomething else to manageDubious sites

No SpamDigital Native friendlyFreeSimple to usePortable bookmarkingEasy to shareAccessible anywhereBuilds & builds

RSS Negatives V Positives

Social Bookmarking

del.icio.us

Researcher

Varying opinions &

insights

New thoughts & ideas

Dynamicaction

Community of

researchers

Profile of a Social Bookmarker as Researcher

Folksonomy V Taxonomy

Folksonomy : The idea of working in a community of researchers [where] new tagging systems will emerge and become accepted that will allow us all to participate in the process.

Educause, 2005

www.librarything.com

http://schnutinger.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/web-20/

Ian Rose – Harvard UniversityNSDI 2007

Source: http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html

RSS

It changes the traditional information structures in fundamental ways, and it forces us to be much more involved with the information we consume.

Will Richardson – Weblogg-ed

Dion Hinchcliffe- http://content.zdnet.com/2348-9588_22-6068407-1.html