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Slide 1: User generated content and social networking Phil Bradley
Slide 2: Weblogs
Slide 3: Weblogs • Weblogs – Create a library weblog – Additional or new library resources – Introduce members of staff – Use it as a repository of data and information by using categories and tags – Don’t regard a weblog as a diary – it’s an important website in its own right…
Slide 4: Weblogs • Use weblogs as an aid in the library – Historical, educational, fictional weblogs – Link to existing book collections – Create new weblogs – Use weblogs for book reviews
Slide 7: Weblogs continued… • Use the weblog RSS feed on the site home page as a news feed • Encourage people to add the feed to their start page or RSS reader • Create a different weblog for a different subject area – invite other authors • Use it in a different way, on a different page
Slide 9: WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
Slide 10: Microblogging • Twitter • Shout’em • Edmodo
Slide 11: Wikis • • • • • • Self created websites Single/multi authored Public/private Quick and dirty/Very professional Short term task Long term project
Slide 12: PBworks
Slide 13: Wetpaint
Slide 14: Web pages • Little/no knowledge of HTML • Various types of data – Bulletin boards – Search resources – Image/multimedia • Easy to update
Slide 15: Zimbio
Slide 16: Squidoo
Slide 17: Disposable web pages
Slide 18: Newsgroups, forums bulletin boards • Google Groups • Tile.net • Omgili
Slide 19: Omgili
Slide 20: Bookmarking • • • • • • • Delicious Diigo SPURL Reddit Digg Sphinn Xmarks
Slide 21: Bookmarking • Share and collaborate on bookmarks – With Staff, students, parents, other librarians • Blend bookmarks into website, specific pages, weblog, wikis • Encourage continual additions
Slide 22: Del.icio.us
Slide 23: Spurl
Slide 26: Xmarks
Slide 28: Shared content • Google maps • Google documents • Cl1p for pc – pc copying
Slide 29: Google docs
Slide 30: Adobe Buzzword
Slide 31: Cl1p.net
Slide 32: Drop.io
Slide 33: Yousendit
Slide 34: Presentations • • • • Slideshare Sliderocket Authorstream WizIQ
Slide 35: Slideshare.net
Slide 36: Sliderocket
Slide 37: Authorstream
Slide 38: WizIQ
Slide 39: Photographs • Flickr • Photobucket • Picasa
Slide 40: Using Flickr • Create a free account • Post photographs of the library, school trips, library events, local history, staff • Create trading cards • Create motivational posters • Blend back into the website, weblog, wiki
Slide 42: Social Networks • • • • • • • • Facebook MySpace Bebo Ravelry Twitter? Ning LinkedIn Plaxo
Slide 43: Facebook
Slide 44: MySpace
Slide 45: LinkedIn
Slide 46: Ravelry
Slide 47: LiveJournal
Slide 48: Ning
Slide 49: LibraryThing
Slide 50: Mashups • #uksnow (A good animation here) • Mashup for almost anything!
Slide 51: http://fullmeasure.co.uk/mashups/ecsitemap.htm http://www.webmashup.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=132
Slide 52: Multimedia • • • • • YouTube etc. Podcasting Audioboo Narrated slideshows Narrated presentations
Slide 53: Schools Radio
Slide 55: Screentoaster
Slide 56: ‘One trick ponies’ • • • • • • • Home/start pages Wall wisher Posters Chats Polls/questionnaires Wordle Chatrooms
Slide 57: Home/start pages • • • • • Netvibes, Pageflakes or iGoogle Create content, hosted by a 3rd party Update when necessary, instantly Incorporate content back onto the website Easy to create and maintain
Slide 58: Pageflakes
Slide 59: Netvibes
Slide 61: Plugoo
Slide 62: Gabbly Chat
Slide 63: Meebo
Slide 64: Coveritlive
Slide 65: ‘Poster/wall based’ • • • • Add to a ‘wall’ Create a poster Single page, single subject Collate content from various sources
Slide 66: Wallwisher
Slide 67: Glogster
Slide 68: SurveyMonkey
Slide 69: Wordle
Slide 70: Search engines • • • • • Custom search engines Searching social media content People moderated search Searching bookmarked content RSS feeds
Slide 71: Google custom search
Slide 72: Eurekster swicki
Slide 73: Social Mention
Slide 74: Whostalking?
Slide 75: Omgili
Slide 76: Web Insuggest
Slide 77: RSS • • • • • Really Simple Search Rich Site Summary ‘Read some stories’ Newsfeeds It’s a common way of transferring data from one resource to another one
Slide 80: • The version a human being sees:
Slide 81: • • • • • • • • • The RSS version: Phil Bradley's weblog http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/ Internet searching, web design, search engine developments and anything that will interest librarians! en-GB 2007-02-23T10:57:53+00:00 Egypt blogger jailed for 'insult' http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2007/02/egypt_blogger_j.html Egyptian blogger jailed for 'insult'. Abdel Kareem Soliman has been jailed for four years for criticising and insulting Islam and the president. He'd used his weblog to take a swipe at the country's top Islamic institution. The link goes to... <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6385849.stm" title="BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Egypt blogger jailed for 'insult'">Egyptian blogger jailed for 'insult'</a>. Abdel Kareem Soliman has been jailed for four years for criticising and insulting Islam and the president. He'd used his weblog to take a swipe at the country's top Islamic institution. The link goes to the BBC story.</p> Current Affairs philipbradley 2007-02-23T10:57:53+00:00 Google charges for web programs http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2007/02/google_charges_.html Google charges for web programs. Well, this is all over the blogs and news at the moment - my link goes to the BBC version of the story. No great surprise here really; Google is going to start selling a... <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6385487.stm" title="BBC NEWS | Technology | Google charges for web programs">Google charges for web programs</a>. Well, this is all over the blogs and news at the moment - my link goes to the BBC version of the story. No great surprise here really; Google is going to start selling a premium version of their email, calendar, word processing and messaging package. It'll cost £27 or 40€ or $50 which includes more storage, phone help and 99.9% uptime (which is actually downtime of about 9 hours per year if you don't want to work it out yourself) and it'll be advertisement free.</p> <p>Google is of course saying that it's not an attack on Microsoft.</p> Google specific philipbradley • • • • • • • • • •
Slide 82: • Each RSS resource has its own URL and other applications can point to that URL, gather the data and display it in a different format.
Slide 83: Bloglines
Slide 84: Google Reader
Slide 85: FeedMySearch
Slide 86: Kick RSS
Slide 87: So, to summarise...
Slide 88: Advantages • • • • • • • • Lots of it! Constantly updated Vast coverage Currency Flexibility Ability to create answers quickly Take/embed content Update website from 3rd party resource
Slide 89: Disadvantages • • • • • • • • Currency Accuracy Bias – covert/overt Locating material Copyright issues Transitory Relying on 3rd party resource Longevity
Slide 90: Disadvantages (yes, more!) • • • • Cannot control or badge content Distrust by management ‘Not your job’ Technical staff opposition
Slide 91: How can you use this stuff? • • • • • • • Jigsaw content together on a web page Write once, Update many Multi authoring Blend content Multi access points Create one-off answers Engage users