Building Community in

Web 2.0

Debbie HermanDigital Resources LibrarianCCSUhermand@ccsu.edu

What is Web 2.0?

Originally coined by Tim O’Reilly c. 2004

Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0Web 1.0 Web 2.0Double-click Google AdSense

Ofoto Flickr

Personal websites Blogging

Content Management Systems Wikis

Taxonomies (a là Yahoo subject directories)

Folksonomies

Britannica Online Wikipedia

Publishing Participation

Source: O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software” (2005). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 2.0 Applications

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

Online Communities

Second Life

World of Warcraft (MMORPGs)

MySpace

Facebook

LibraryThing

Flickr

Content Creation

Blogs Wikis Social bookmarking/tagging (del.icio.us,

Furl, Digg, PennTags) Mashups Podcasting/RSS

Web 2.0 and Reading

Where do we fit in?

A 2007 NEA study found that on weekdays 15- to 24-year-olds spent a mere seven minutes on voluntary reading.

Web 2.0 in the Service of Reading

Social networking sites (MySpace / Facebook)

LibraryThing LibraryElf SecondLife Blogging Podcasting

Facebook

Social Tagging / Bookmarking

Flickr Del.icio.us

LibraryThing

LibraryThing in the catalog (OPAC) Danbury Public Library LibraryElf

Second Life

Life on the Grid

Kurt Vonnegut in SecondLife 2006

Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Communicate with Our Clienteles Blogs (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) RSS newsfeeds Podcasting

Fun Google Gadgets

GoogleDocs (collaboration tool) Google Book Search Google SMS for mobile devices Google Calendar

http://del.icio.us/debbie.herman/motheread

Links to Resources

Conclusion