The Expanding Web:the 2.0 bit

Memo CordovaReference Librarian

Boise State University

The social web:

Web sites, online tools, and web applications that connect individuals & institutions in a virtual environment.

Web Web, expanded

Personal web page Blogs

Isolated Social networks

Static Dynamic

HTML WYSIWYG, AJAX, RUBY

scattered RSS, news readers

proprietary software Social software

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/the_best_thing_.html

http://flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/sets/72057594060779001/

Social web:

• Wikis• social networks• RSS• news readers• blogs

Social web: Wikis

• Hawaiian for "rapidly”• group edits content • Wikipedia• Timberline wiki

Wikis

http://collectionmanagement.wetpaint.com/

Wikis

Wikis

Social web: social networks

• online communities• based on…

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

social networks

18,000,000 accounts

social networks

73,000 registered users

social networks

106 million accounts

social networks

http://alamembers.ning.com/

http://tinyurl.com/2gwzog

Social web: RSS

• “Real simple syndication”• XML code• Updates

RSS

www.geekgirls.com/images/rss06.jpg

RSS

Social web: blogs

• Online journal• Web + log = weblog = blog• Blogger = one who blogs

blogs

blogs

blogs

Social web: news readers

• Automated browsing• Website subscription• RSS: updates automatically

news readers

news readers

Wonderful! Just wonderful!...So much for instilling them

with a sense of awe

The social web:

Web sites, online tools, and web applications that connect individuals & institutions in a virtual environment.

Web-based, socially-tested, shareable software utilities and radical thinking +Library services, collections, research expertise, and core community service

http://www.speedbump.com/images/librarian.jpg

Technologies alone can only do so much – they are ultimately only enablers.  The real power is in the mindset that will be required to… exploit the full potential of the technology.

John Hagelhttp://tinyurl.com/8dcuf

http://tinyurl.com/4t7mf

http://tinyurl.com/4t7mf

• Be willing to experiment

• Apply models

• Tools that facilitate cooperation

• Adapt

• Library 2.0 in 15 minutes a day http://tinyurl.com/3yqtju

• Learning 2.0 – Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/

• 43 Things I might want to do this yearhttp://tinyurl.com/y47cau

Wikis

http://collectionmanagement.wetpaint.com/

Thanks!