2.0 and youEllen Mizio and Diana Silveira

http://mentalgraffiti.blogspot.com/

What is 2.0?

• Sharing

• Collaboration

• Learning

• Interaction

• Creation

Web 2.0

Stabilo Boss’ pictures shared through Creative Commons License

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Blog

1. Blogs are …

• web pages that are organized by dated entries and resemble an online diary for the world to read.

• an easy way to exchange and present information.

• about three things: “Frequency, Brevity and Personality“ [Source: Evan Williams, the creator of Blogger].

• extremely popular! 39 % of Internet users, i.e., nearly 57 million American adults, read blogs. [Source: Lenhart & Fox].

Create a library blog to …

• promote library events. • connect to your community. • support devoted library users.• reach out to potential users.• say something interesting. • allow your patrons to say something interesting.• enhance book discussions.• provide book reviews/recommendations.• create a literary guide. • write a library newspaper. • revisit and perhaps revise work.• interact with your colleagues. • be creative, critically think, and write about issues interesting to

you.• accomplish almost anything you want.

5. Podcasting

MP3 +

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Podcast -

• a digital media file (e.g., MP3), or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds (e.g., RSS) for playback on portable media players and personal computers. (Source: Wikipedia)

• You can download the media file[s] and listen to them on your computer.

• You can subscribe to a feed and have updated content come to you – like a multimedia magazine delivered to your home once a new issue is published.

• Some podcasts have a corresponding web page or a blog for show notes and other applicable information.

• In 2005, the New Oxford American Dictionary rated ‘podcast’ the Word of the Year!

Why listen to and/or create a podcast?

• Why listen to or create anything?• Learn something.• Teach something.• Make lectures/discussions more portable.• Promote events, connect with your community,

and reach out to people with similar interests.• Provide reviews/recommendations for books,

other podcasts etc.• Record events and share with people who

were unable to attend it.• Accomplish almost anything you want.

YouTube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

MySpace,

FaceBook,

LinkedIn

http://library20.ning.com/

Wikis

Online Collaboration

Folksonomy or tagging

• AKA ‘tagging’ • Vocabulary

Clouds• Users add

value• Harnessing

Collective Intelligence of Users

What are tags?

• Keywords/descriptors to describe digital objects

• Applied by users of the content

• Keyword or category label. Tags help you find photos, etc. which have something in common.

Let’s do some tagging

What tags did you give the photo?

• Cats

• Dogs

• Family

• Papa

• Food

• Gris

• “Cats”

• “Together”

http://del.icio.us/

Chatting

• Yahoo, MSN, Google

• Meebo, Trillian• Ask a Librarian• Skype

• 60% of teens and young adults on the Internet use chat “often”

• Allows for file sharing, conferencing and VoIP

• Nearly 6 in 10 use IM to communicate at work

Virtual Worlds• Second Life• 8.5 million users with

1.6 logging in during the last 60 days.

• Other worlds for teens And Kids!

• More and more virtual worlds

Virtual Worlds

• Second Life (SL) began in 2003 and has had significant growth over the years (ca. 5 million residents)

• Museums, libraries, schools, businesses, homes, etc. are “in” SL.

• Avatar = digital identity that represents you in the virtual world.

• ActiveWorlds, Meebo Rooms etc.

What is going on in there?

Alliance Library System in SecondLifeVirtual Bibliographic Instruction (VBI) and Interactive Reference at Eastern University

Gaming

• Want to become a leader? Try MORPG

• The average gamer is….

RSS

RSS?! Readers

RSS Feeds on Webpages

Now?

• Visit http://

• Play!

• Create!

• Collaborate!

• Share!

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