googling, tweeting, and wikifying: utilizing (and participating in) the internet's most popular...

Googling, Tweeting, and Wikifying: Utilizing (And Participating In) The

Internet's Most Popular SitesGoogle, Twitter, and Wikipedia are consistently in the Top 10 most visited sites on the Internet, but each is much more than a simple destination. All three have great potential for providing reference assistance to patrons, keeping up-to-date on current events and trends, and sharing your expertise with the wider world. This program will share ideas on how to take an active role in each of these resources and how to get the most out of each one.

Utilizing(and Participating in)the Internet’s Most Popular Sites

Googling,Tweeting,and Wikifying

Ohio Library Council Chapter Conferences 2013#olc_cc13

http://www.knowitnow.org

Don BoozerKnowItNow24x7 Coordinator

http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer

Who are we dealing with?

70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company

Who are we dealing with?

3 floors…For-profit

Who are we dealing with?

70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company

1 floor…Non-profit

Who are we dealing with?

3 floors…For-profit

70 offices… 40+ countriesFor-profit company

ALL public libraries in the United States

Operating Revenue$

$11 billion

“Googling”

Utilizing

Utilizing

#1

GOOGLE IT

I’ll just…

GOOGLE IT

Search Books

Scholar Patents

Even More…

YouTube ImagesMaps

News

Early 2012

Early 2012

2013

What elsecan we find out aboutCharles Brush utilizing Google?

Report on manufacturing industries in the United States at the eleventh census: 1890

BRUSH FOUNDATION(The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History)“The BRUSH FOUNDATION was established in 1928 in Cleveland by CHARLES FRANCIS BRUSH, in memory of his son, Charles F. Brush, Jr. (d. 1927). The foundation supported the fledgling Maternal Health Assn. of Cleveland (later PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER CLEVELAND, PPGC) and played a significant role in the organization and funding of the Intl. Planned Parenthood Federation (1949).”

After that, you need a cookie…

www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com

Participating In

drive.google.com

drive.google.com

sites.google.com

sites.google.com

www.panoramio.com

picasa.google.com

www.youtube.com

blogger.com

little-people.blogspot.com

developers.google.com

“Tweeting”

Utilizing

#10

tweetping.net

http://techland.time.com/the-140-best-twitter-feeds-of-2012/

search.twitter.com

[kim jong un near:seoul]

[library near:columbus within:10mi]

#hashtag#olc_cc13

#ReadAcrossMaryland#ff

twubs.com

tagdef.com

Participating In

twitter.com/kin24x7@kin24x7

Replies,Retweets (RT),Modified Tweets (MT) and #hashtags

Conversations

Beyond basic text…

• dev.twitter.com/media/live-tweeting• dev.twitter.com/media/hashtags• twittertoolsbook.com/how-to-use-twitter-hashtags/

Best Practices

“Wikifying”

Utilizing

#6

Referral tool…

Popular culture…

Popular culture…

Language study…

Language study…

Language study…

Local perspective…

Local perspective…

Participating In

Wikipedians• Over 18 million registered users• 270,000 active users monthly• 91% are male• 20% live in United States• 59% are aged 17 – 40

Share knowledge and hobbies…

Take control of online identity…

Promote local resources…

March 8, 2013

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training

Don Boozerdon@cpl.org

http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer

Thank you!

Don Boozerdon@cpl.org

http://www.slideshare.net/donboozer

BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES – Page 1• Rankings from http://www.alexa.com• Public Library operating revenue: https://harvester.census.gov/imls/pubs/Publications/pls2009.pdf• Google revenue: http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html• Wikimedia Foundation revenue: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/4f/2012-13_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan_FINAL_FOR_WEBSITE.pdf • Twitter revenue: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-01/twitter-said-to-expect-1-billion-in-sales-in-2014-on-ad-growth.html • Google locations: http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/• Twitter location: http://mashable.com/2012/06/21/twitter-new-san-francisco-headquarters-pics/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/• Photo: Wikimedia Foundation staff, San Francisco, California. Photographed by Lane Hartwell (http://fetching.net/) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Staff_05.jpg• Photo for Google Work-in-progress slide: “Portrait of Ernest Edwards, blacksmith of Drouin, Victoria” http://www.flickr.com/photos/national_library_of_australia_commons/6174068586/ (plus addition of Google Logo)

BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES – Page 2• Photo for Charles Brush Arc Lamp: http://brentdurken.com/charles-brush-arc-lamp/ Photo of mail room: “U.S. Troops Surrounded by Holiday Mail During WWII”http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian/3112472619 • Photo of “John, the Cook, baking slapjacks” http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/4493497975/ • Google Graveyard: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/2013/03/google_reader_joins_graveyard_of_dead_google_products.html • Instagram: http://instagram.com/• yfrog: http://yfrog.com/• Vine: https://vine.co/• twitpic: http://twitpic.com/• bitly: http://www.bitly.com