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Practical uses for Web 2.0 in your organisation

Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and Internet Consultant.

http://www.philb.com

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Libraries and Web 2.0

• It’s not about the tools• It’s about the mindset• It’s about the activity• It’s about freeing up time• It’s about taking control

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So!

• What is it that libraries and librarians do again?

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Communication - weblogs

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Minimum expectations

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But how about...?

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Flickr

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But expand the use!

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Wordle.net

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Bookmarks/Favo(u)rites

• Share resources• Network with colleagues• Take a feed and place it onto an appropriate

page• Use it as a search engine

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Del.icio.us

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Google RSS reader to share content

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Wallwisher

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Nik Peachey’s Wallwisher

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Glogster

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Home/Start Pages

• Netvibes• Pageflakes• Virtual library pages or portals• Ease of updating• Interactive

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Social networking

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Google groups

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Wikis

• Self created websites• Single/multi authored• Public/private• Quick and dirty/Very professional• Short term task• Long term project

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PBworks

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Disposable web pages

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Google docs

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Xmarks

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Google Custom Search

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Search with RSS

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Instant chat

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Ask a librarian!

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Twitter

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Add a Twitter feed to your blog

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Yammer or Shoutem

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Screentoaster

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Instructional videos

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Slideshare.net

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Embed presentations

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WizIQ

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Mash-ups

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Podcasting

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Audacity recording software

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Multimedia

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VoiceThread

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‘One trick ponies’

• They do one thing, very well.

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LibraryThing

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Bookseer

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Drop.io

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And then...

• Blend it all together• Web sites are now of different importance• Everything should link to everything else

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In summary

• ITANTTS– (It’s the activity, not the tool, stupid!)

• If a tool only does one thing, drop it• Forget loyalty• Try it and see what happens; understand what

you want to achieve• Combine and blend• Take control!

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Thanks to:• http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthlibraries/3638349056/ • http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Se2CEhZjQyo/SZ60IsJ9HmI/AAAAAAAAAeY/1ExtNzF_Pec/s1600-h/librarian%5B1%5D.jpg (For

the ask a librarian cartoon)• http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20


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