073 web 2.0

Paul Mundy www.mamud.com

Web 2.0 and rural development

Paul Mundy


What is Web 2.0?

Programs and services that allow new ways to use the internet

Old “Web 1.0” Website owners upload content (webpages,

documents, videos) Visitors passively read or watch


What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 Users contribute content Can edit a webpage Add comments, tags or ratings Upload documents, images or videos Add content to their own websites “Meta information” emerges from normal web use

Amazon: people who bought this also bought that BBC: most-read news stories eBay: content and comments from buyers and sellers


Web 2.0

Much potential as a tool for rural development

Allows many people to: Share information and pictures Collaborate on documents (reports, spreadsheets,

presentations) Comment on activities Obtain information automatically


Rapid development

Internet developing quickly Many tools are free or open source


Web 2.0 tools

Blogs Collaborative writing

software Communities of

practice Content management

systems Email groups File sharing

Image sharing Podcasts Social bookmarking Social networking Telephony Video sharing Web feeds Wikis


Blogs

Web-based diaries, web logs Allow you to upload text, images and videos

easily Let others edit them or comment on them

Blogger www.blogger.com WordPress www.wordpress.org Blog.com www.blog.com


Blogs Blogger www.blogger.com

Editing tools

Editing pane

Click here to upload


Blogs Blogger www.blogger.com

Blog posting

Previous blog posting


Collaborative writing software Lets you

Write documents, spreadsheets and presentations Share them Allow others to edit them

Like a word processor or spredsheet on the Web

GoogleDocs docs.google.com Writeboard www.writeboard.com Basecamp www.basecamphq.com 37signals www.37signals.com


Collaborative writing software GoogleDocs docs.google.com

Editing tools

DocumentDocumentDocument

Click here to upload


Communities of practice

Enables a group of people to share ideas and build solutions about a topic

Moodle moodle.org Designed for teachers to run courses

Joomlapolis www.joomlapolis.com Works with Joomla content management system


Content management systems (CMS) Allow multiple users to upload and edit a

wide range of content in different categories

Joomla www.joomla.org Drupal www.drupal.org


Content management systems (CMS) Joomla www.joomla.org

Menu

Lead story

More stories

Another story

Links


Email groups

Allow members to Send emails to a whole group Share files and pictures Manage a calendar Etc.

Yahoogroups www.yahoogroups.com Google groups groups.google.com


Email groups Yahoogroups www.yahoogroups.com

Advertising

Functions eg database, files, links, calendar

Recent messages


File sharing

Lets you share or backup files

Drop.io www.drop.io Dropbox www.getdropbox.com


File sharing: Drop.io www.drop.io

Notes

Links

List of uploaded files


Image sharing

Lets you upload and share photos and other images

Picasa picasa.google.com Flickr www.flickr.com


Podcasts

Digital media files (audio or video) Distributed on Internet using “web feeds”

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


Social bookmarking

Lets you store, organize and share bookmarks of webpages by giving them subject tags

Delicious del.icio.us StumbleUpon www.stumbleupon.com Reddit reddit.com Digg digg.com


Social networking

Lets you keep in touch with friends and colleagues

Facebook www.facebook.com Friendster www.friendster.com MySpace www.myspace.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com StudiVZ www.studivz.net Twitter www.twitter.com


Social networkingFacebook www.facebook.com

You

Your message

Your friends

Your friends’ messages

You


Telephony

Lets you make telephone calls and send chat messages

Skype www.skype.com Yahoo Messenger

http://messenger.yahoo.com Windows Live Messenger http://get.live.com

/messenger/overview


TelephonySkype www.skype.com

Your credit (so you can call phones, not just computers)

Your contacts

Conference call

Click here to call


Video sharing

Lets you share videos online

YouTube www.youtube.com


Video sharing YouTube www.youtube.com

Watch video

Related videos

Rating, comments


Web feeds

Lets you include content from another website in your site

Gives you news/updates without having to visit a website

Works by clicking on this symbol Programs

Internet Explorer 7 Outlook 2007 FeedReader www.feedreader.com Feedly www.feedly.com

More info: www.whatisrss.com


Wikis

Allow multiple users to Create a common website Edit it Link it to other websites Best known wiki is Wikipedia

Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org Wetpaint www.wetpaint.com Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com PBWiki http://pbwiki.com/


Wikis: Wetpaint www.wetpaint.com

Editing tools

Editing pane

Other pages in site


More information about Web 2.0 Web 2.0 in the context of development

mmcnairnay.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/initial-web-20-paper/

Everything you need to know about Web 2.0 www.techsoup.org/toolkits/web2/

Wikis in plain English www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

The machine is us/ing us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Participative web: User-created content www.oecd.org/dataoecd/57/14/38393115.pdf

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