Web 2.0 Stuff - Interlend08 Workshop

Slide 1 :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 1 Web 2.0 Stuff, Interlend08, Peebles, June 30th – July 2nd Karen Blakeman RBA Information Services http://www.rba.co.uk/ blog: http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk Facebook: Karen Blakeman Twitter: karenblakeman This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License


What is Web 2.0 ? :What is Web 2.0 ? A concept not a product A way of thinking A way of working collaborative, social, sharing reusing and mixing data, mashups About you taking control of your information All sorts of technologies but…. ..should not be about technologies – more about content and information Examples: blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking (e.g. Furl, Del.icio.us, Connotea) Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, web based forums, email discussion lists, YouTube, Second Life…… 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 2


The mandatory web 2.0 meme map! :The mandatory web 2.0 meme map! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 3


Gartner hype curve :Gartner hype curve 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 4 http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp


Blogs, Wikis and RSS :Blogs, Wikis and RSS Blogs and wikis essentially content management systems can be used as collaborative tools within and outside the organisation Blogs one or a select few post (publish) to many but can have comments from anyone useful for announcements, ‘what’s new’, instead of a newsletter, for mini web sites Wikis ideal for collaborating on documents and projects e.g. policies and procedures, course content and documentation, organising a conference RSS a means of delivering information a way to transfer information from one application to another, form one service to another 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 5


Blogs :Blogs What is a blog? short for web log content management system that publishes information chronologically, hence the idea of an online diary content can range from self-indulgent drivel to extreme erudition easy to use and publish from anywhere, therefore there is a high proportion of utter rubbish in the blogosphere most blogs automatically generate RSS feeds “Vodcasts and blogs are to the noughties what graffiti was to the Seventies: mindless scrawls reading: 'I woz ere.' It says: 'I'm a moron, but worship me anyway.” The Observer, 3rd December 2006 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1962820,00.html 03 July 2008 6 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk


Anatomy of a blog (1) :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 7 Anatomy of a blog (1) Title and brief description Most recent posting at the top Author/blog profile RSS feed for postings and comments Categories assigned by author Comments from readers


Anatomy of a blog (2) :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 8 Anatomy of a blog (2) Archives List of recent posts Tags Blogroll of related blogs


UKeiG collaborative blog :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 9 UKeiG collaborative blog List of people who can post articles


Applications of blogs :Applications of blogs Instead of or in addition to a printed, emailed or static web based newsletter Current awareness for staff, users, researchers and clients - “What’s new” publicising new services/products, encourage feedback via comments Marketing tool inside and outside of the organisation CPD – recording professional development and reflective practice Recording project development, discussions Comments or “suggestions” box Monitor blogs for information and competitor intelligence Alternative publishing medium Small web sites http://www.newsbriefsoman.info/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 10


http://www.newsbriefsoman.info/ :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 11 http://www.newsbriefsoman.info/


Why use blogs for publishing? :Why use blogs for publishing? Quick and easy to post and edit Links and management of archives and postings is done by the software Can be done from any Internet connected machine, even via a mobile Can be hosted on your own server or on the blogging service’s server If hosted by the blogging service, do not have to wait for content to be uploaded by the relevant ‘department’ in your organisation Can be individually authored or collaborative 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 12


Blogs as sources of information :Blogs as sources of information Blogs by industry gurus and experts are a good way of keeping up to date with what is happening in a sector Look for the Blogroll of List of Links on a relevant blog Google Blogsearch http://www.google.com/blogsearch use advanced search to search within an individual blog Ask http://www.ask.com/ – Blogs and feeds Live Feeds search - http://search.live.com/feeds Blog search engines and directories http://www.technorati.com/ http://www.blogpulse.com/ http://www.quacktrack.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 13


Advanced search in Google Blogsearch :Advanced search in Google Blogsearch 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 14


Ask Blog Search :Ask Blog Search 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 15


Live.com Feeds Search :Live.com Feeds Search 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 16


Blogpulse Trends :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 17 Blogpulse Trends Shows how often your search terms occur in postings – can compare up to three searches


Product/company reputation :Product/company reputation The “Kryptonite Blogstorm” http://introtodigitalage.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Picture%201.png http://tinyurl.com/9p93l Bicycle lock that could be opened with a bic pen company ignored the blogs until a “demonstration” video appeared then issued reassurances only offered free product exchanges when NY Times and AP picked up the story estimated cost $10 million 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 18


Quality checking blogs :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 19 Quality checking blogs The usual: date last updated, who is behind the site, domain name check if applicable Check out the blogger profile, ‘mission statement’, ‘about this blog’, blogroll Read the content check for obvious bias, errors Use advanced search screens of blog search tools to find out who has linked to the blog or individual postings Technorati, Blogpulse, Ask Blogs and Feeds May be difficult or impossible to check out authors of comments


Corporate blogging :Corporate blogging The Business value of blogging, March 2007 http://www.lewispr.com/Business_value_of_blogging.pdf Blogs and RSS: tools for competitive intelligence http://www.digimind.com/en/download/White_Paper_Blogs-RSS_EN_2006.pdf An excellent overview and introduction to blogs and RSS and how they can be used in competitive intelligence. Includes an extensive list of references and further reading. Downloaded 2 October 2006. The email killers - Information Age http://www.information-age.com/article/2006/august/email_killers 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 20


Blogging librarians :Blogging librarians UK Library Blogs http://uklibraryblogs.pbwiki.com/ Blogorama in Internet Resources Newsletter: http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/ LIS-Bloggers email discussion list http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIS-BLOGGERS.html British Librarian Bloggers | Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/britlibblogs 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 21


Yet more blogging librarians :Yet more blogging librarians Brian Kelly’s Blog http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ Info Junkie http://swashford.wordpress.com/ Swansea Libraries http://swansealibraries.blogspot.com/ Spineless? http://hwlibrary.wordpress.com/ Galway Library http://galwaylibrary.blogspot.com/ Libraries in the NHS http://nelh.blogspot.com/ Talking Knowledge Management http://talkingkm.blogspot.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 22


Where are the blogging librarians? :Where are the blogging librarians? Science @ UCD Library http://ucdscience.blogspot.com/ Reader Services@ucd Library http://ucdreaderservices.blogspot.com/ Shush! – the Information Services Library blog http://library.northampton.ac.uk/blog/index.php Univ of Bath Library Science News http://bathsciencenews.wordpress.com/ E-Resources News and Trials (University of Liverpool) http://liveresources.blogspot.com/ The Manchester Lit List http://manchesterlitlist.blogspot.com/ Tell Us What You Think of The Library Weblog http://telluswhatyouthink.wordpress.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 23


Setting up your own blog :Setting up your own blog Host on the blogging service’s own server or install on your site Blogger - free http://www.blogger.com/ owned by Google host on Blogger or publish to your own site, but need to use blogger.com for both Wordpress - free Host on http://www.wordpress.com/ Software for loading onto your own site at http://www.wordpress.org/ Typepad – priced Host on http://www.typepad.com/ Also Movable Type, Live Journal at http://www.sixapart.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 24


Blog host or own server? :Blog host or own server? Blog Host May not be allowed on your organisation’s server Keeping it private may not be straightforward consider confidentiality Not possible to fully customise the blog in line with the ‘corporate image’ User stats not always easily available Can post from any Internet connected computer without having to worry about firewalls Could lose your information if the services closes or fails Own Server Should be able to customise the look and feel, and interface of the blog but depends on the software Can integrate the blog fully with your web site Can include the blog in your site search option Easy access to user stats Can easily keep the blog private or for selected users But the content may still have to go through the usual authorisation channels 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 25


What can go wrong? :What can go wrong? 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 26


Integrating your blog with your web site :Integrating your blog with your web site 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 27


Blog usability 1-5 :Blog usability 1-5 Weblog Usability Top 10 from Jakob Neilsen’s Alertboxhttp://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html Author biography Author photo [optional] Use descriptive posting titles Use descriptive links Have links to “classic hits” 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 28


Blog usability 6-10 :Blog usability 6-10 Categorise postings Publish frequently or have a publishing schedule [but don’t publish for the sake of it!] Have focussed content and find “your voice” – set up more than one blog if necessary Do not forget that you might be writing for your future boss Set up your own domain name [not essential – blogs with Typepad, Wordpress or Blogspot in the URL are commonplace and accepted] 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 29


Blog content :Blog content Postings can be as short or as long as you like can be short announcements of new services can be lengthy, detailed articles http://www.theoildrum.com/ http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ Beware of copyright and plagiarism Quote sources and acknowledge other blogs Add value: summarise lengthy articles, sources why might it be relevant or important to your readers include your own opinion or evaluation 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 30


Comments :Comments ‘Comments’ can be used to facilitate feedback and encourage discussion Can be switched off If switched on are you: going to allow anyone to comment (dangerous – automatic spamming is ubiquitous) force people to register use a ‘captcha’ - completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart use a spam detection module e.g. Akismet moderate all comments combination of two or more of the above 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 31


Bling for your blog :Bling for your blog Phil Bradley, Library and Information Show, NEC Birmingham, April 18th 2007 – Adding Bling to Your Blog! Gadgets, widgets, page elements etc. that you can add to your blog RSS to email RSS to PDF Calendars Tag clouds Photos from Flickr, Picasa Embed Youtube videos Embed Slideshare, authorSTREAM presentations RSS feeds from other blogs and sites Twitter feeds 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 32


Tag clouds :Tag clouds Analyse your CV, job description, web pages, promotional literature Wordle (http://wordle.net/), Tag Crowd, Tag Cloud Generator etc 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 33


Policies and legal issues :Policies and legal issues Internal or public blogs? even if internal (within the organisation) there are still IP, regulatory, data protection and FoI implications Blogging policy outlines what you can say and do internally and publicly for example IBM’s blogging policyhttp://tinyurl.com/28mpha (goes to the IBM web site) written collaboratively using an internal wiki Accessibility issues How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers - American Foundation for the Blind. http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=57&TopicID=167&DocumentID=2757 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 34


Return on investment :Return on investment Difficult to tell Encourage feedback from readers Number of readers if hosted on your own servers, can tell from your web stats if hosted on Blogger install third party page tracking services http://www.sitemeter.com/ Google analytics – http://www.google.com/analytics if hosted on Wordpress, basic stats are supplied as part of the package many people may read the content via the RSS feed and not visit the blog 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 35


Wikis :Wikis wiki-wiki – Hawaiian meaning quick First wiki was the WikiWikiWeb, Ward Cunningham 1995 A collaborative web application that allows users to easily add and edit content Can be used for developing documentation project management History keeps a record of the changes and different versions of the documents developing a conference programme Many have blog like discussion areas and RSS feeds Most famous example is Wikipedia 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 36


Wikis :Wikis Standardised format and layout “Makes our contributors concentrate on content rather than wasting time on pretty layouts” Default in many wikis lets anyone create and edit a page need to protect Admin functions and limit creation, edit and access rights ‘lock’ individual pages or sections can require registration to set up new pages or edit existing ones many wiki packages and hosted services now automatically protect the ‘admin’ or guide you through the process of setting up permissions 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 37


Alex on Wikipedia :Alex on Wikipedia http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/graphics/2008/06/04/calex04.gif 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 38


Wikipedia :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 39 Wikipedia Option to edit the page


Wikipedia (2) :Wikipedia (2) 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 40 No edit option


Wikipedia - history :Wikipedia - history 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 41 Date of edits Author/editor


http://www.alacrawiki.com :http://www.alacrawiki.com 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 42 No edit option even if you register and sign in


Wikis for collaborating on documents :Wikis for collaborating on documents Single centrally located copy instead of multiple copies circulating via email all with different edits Version control Collaborators do not have to be running the same software or same version Can see the “time line” or history of edits who has edited what and when useful in compliance situations Some wikis allow for comments and discussion on edits But have to be online to work on the document 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 43


What are wikis used for in real life? :What are wikis used for in real life? National Archives http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Wiki used to write a thesis http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Alicia+Holsey Using a wiki for a Lab Open Notebook http://1cellpk.wikispaces.com Wiki CrimeLine http://www.wikicrime.co.uk/ Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/ InfoTeach http://www.infoteach.org/wiki/ ShareILL - Interlibrary Loan Wiki http://www.shareill.org/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 44


What are wikis used for in real life? :What are wikis used for in real life? Wikis for training materials and conference organising Sarah Washford http://swashford.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/wiki-wonders/ Wikis for compiling subject guides We have Wiki http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/01/09/we-have-wiki/ A free surgical encyclopaedia for surgeons and their patients http://wikisurgery.com/ Using a Wiki for an Intranet Janssen-Cilag, switched from a static HTML site to using a wiki. http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/09/18/enterprise-wiki-increases-collaboration-and-connections-at-janssen-cilag/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 45


Organizing a conference http://interlend.pbwiki.com/ :Organizing a conference http://interlend.pbwiki.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 46


Conference proceedings :Conference proceedings Inspiring the iGeneration http://inspiringtheigeneration.wetpaint.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 47


Top 3 tips for using implementing a wiki :Top 3 tips for using implementing a wiki Identified at “Blogs and Wikis in Libraries – Our New Best Friends?” 8th November 2007. Organised by CILIP’s Information Services Group – London and South East branch Don’t call it a wiki Don’t call it a wiki Don’t call it a wiki 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 48


Experimenting with wikis :Experimenting with wikis May already have wiki options on your system Blackboard, Moodle, SharePoint feedback on Sharepoint wiki – robust but basic Not always straightforward to install on your own system use third party “wiki farms” to start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_farms some wiki farms make your wikis completely open, that is viewable and editable by anyone Compare wikis at http://www.wikimatrix.org/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 49


Experimenting with wikis :Experimenting with wikis Some wiki farms to try: Peanut Butter Wiki http://pbwiki.com/ Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com/ Seedwiki http://www.seedwiki.com/ Wet Paint http://www.wetpaint.com/ Also try Google Docs http://docs.google.com/ Google Sites http://sites.google.com/ Zoho http://www.zoho.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 50


Google Docs & Spreadsheets :Google Docs & Spreadsheets http://docs.google.com/ need a Google account Google will try and force you to use an existing account text documents (Word, Open Office, Star Office) spreadsheets presentations Can upload existing documents and will keep most of the formatting (wikis usually removes formatting) Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address Edit documents online with whomever you choose Has a similar version/history record as wikis Publish documents to your blog 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 51


http://www.zoho.com/ :http://www.zoho.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 52


Google Sites http://sites.google.com/ :Google Sites http://sites.google.com/ Marketed as a way of producing your own site hosted on Google Can be set up and used as a wiki 100 MB storage 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 53


RSS in Plain English :RSS in Plain English http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english or on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 54


What is RSS :What is RSS Stands for Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary or RDF site summary depends on version Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.9x) RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9 and 1.0) Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.x) also ATOM (Google) written in XML extensible markup language look for the orange logos A means of delivering headlines, alerts, tables of contents 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 55 Regarded as the de facto standard


Why isn’t RSS more popular? :Why isn’t RSS more popular? 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 56


But a feed may be displayed like this… :But a feed may be displayed like this… 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 57 Q. So why do I need a reader? A. To bring your feeds together in one place


What do you need? :What do you need? Need a feed reader to read them and get the most out of the technology Web based readers or Programs on your desktop machine, laptop, Blackberry, mobile RSS reader incorporated into IE 7 and Outlook 2007 now rolling out onto people’s desktops Firefox and Thunderbird users already able to read and use RSS directly or via add-ons Opera already handles RSS 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 58


http://www.google.com/reader :http://www.google.com/reader 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 59 ….like Google Reader


Feeds in Outlook 2007 :Feeds in Outlook 2007 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 60


RSS instead of email :RSS instead of email Reduces the overload in your email inbox By-passes spam filters Quicker and easier to scan and spot individual headlines within an alert or newsletter and decide what is relevant Can set up filters to pick up stories that mention specific products, companies etc. (desktop programs only) You control when you receive and read the feeds Easier to “unsubscribe” 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 61


Adding a feed to your reader :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 62 Adding a feed to your reader Spotted an interesting RSS feed? Click on the RSS, XML, Atom or feed logo Sometimes it is just an html link to the feed Copy the URL of the feed page Paste into the Add or Subscribe box of your reader That's it!


Want to add a feed to your reader? :Want to add a feed to your reader? 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 63


Want to change feed readers? :Want to change feed readers? No problem Export your list of feeds to an OPML file (Outline Processor Markup Language) Import the OPML file into your new feed reader 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 64


Want to unsubscribe from a feed? :Want to unsubscribe from a feed? Simply delete the feed from your feed reader! 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 65


RSS readers :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 66 RSS readers RSS Compendium http://rsscompendiumblog.wordpress.com/ http://allrss.com/ Web based readers access from any terminal or PC options and functions not as comprehensive as most PC programs Newsgator.com, Bloglines.com, www.google.com/reader/ Desktop programs plugins for Outlook e.g. Newsgator standalone programs e.g. Omea, GreatNews, RSS Bandit, Feed Demon(priced) Outlook 2007 and IE 7 have RSS capability built in


What else can you do with RSS? :What else can you do with RSS? Add them to your iGoogle page Incorporate them into your Pageflakes or Netvibes start page Display them on your web site, blog or wiki Monitor Twitter tweets Send your favourite feeds to your Twitter stream via Twitterfeed Send the first 140 characters of your blog postings to your Twitter stream Monitor your Facebook notifications Almost anything 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 67


Add feeds to your web page or blog :Add feeds to your web page or blog 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 68 RSS feed from the Blog RSS feed of eLucidate table of contents


Add feed content to your web page or blog :Add feed content to your web page or blog Web page Check existing options in your content management system Use a third party service to convert the RSS feed and create code for your page e.g. Rapidfeeds.com Blog Blogger – sign in to your blog and go to Layout, Add a page element, click on Feed and enter the URL of the feed in the box Wordpress – sign in to your blog, go to Design, Widgets, Add the RSS widget and then click on Edit to add the URL of the feed and configure it 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 69


iGoogle :iGoogle 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 70


Pageflakes, Netvibes :Pageflakes, Netvibes http://www.pageflakes.com/ http://www.netvibes.com/ Known as ‘start pages’ Collate data, photos, videos, weather news, calendars, notepads for queries, RSS feeds etc. by adding ‘flakes’ to your page Can have multiple tabs to generate separate collections Can keep them private, share with a group of people, or make them public (pagecast) 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 71


Pageflakes :Pageflakes http://www.pageflakes.com/ UKeiG http://www.pageflakes.com/ukeig1 East Lothian Libraries http://www.pageflakes.com/libraries0/17137920/ Dublin City Public Libraries http://www.pageflakes.com/dublincitypubliclibraries/ Scottish Libraries http://www.pageflakes.com/scottishlibraries Llyfrgell Ceredigion Library in Aberystwyth http://www.pageflakes.com/LlyfrgellCeredigionLibrary/19167751 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 72


Pageflakes - UKeiGhttp://www.pageflakes.com/ukeig1 :Pageflakes - UKeiGhttp://www.pageflakes.com/ukeig1 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 73


Pageflakes – East Lothian Librarieshttp://www.pageflakes.com/libraries0/17137920/ :Pageflakes – East Lothian Librarieshttp://www.pageflakes.com/libraries0/17137920/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 74


Pageflakes – Dublin City Librarieshttp://www.pageflakes.com/dublincitypubliclibraries/ :Pageflakes – Dublin City Librarieshttp://www.pageflakes.com/dublincitypubliclibraries/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 75


Tracking down RSS feeds :Tracking down RSS feeds Look for the RSS/XML logos on a site Use blog search tools Ask.co.uk – Blogs and feeds Windows Live (live.com) – Feeds http://search.live.com/feeds also site: + feed: command to track down feeds on a specific site e.g.site:bbc.co.uk feed:bbc.co.uk feed:amazon.co.uk site:amazon.co.uk energy Exalead.com - limit search to RSS feeds 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 76


Page doesn’t have a feed? :Page doesn’t have a feed? Page2RSS http://www.page2rss.com/ essentially a page change monitoring programme that sends alerts as RSS feeds enter the URL of the page you want to monitor copy and paste the link of the RSS feed into your reader 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 77


Who does RSS? :Who does RSS? Lots of people Companies and organisations, for example CILIP, UKeiG for delivering news of training and events, headlines and abstracts of newsletter articles, blog headlines, discussions in web based communities of practice many news services now offer RSS feeds Yahoo News, Google News, Moreover BBC, newspapers, magazines, Factiva professional, scientific, trade press BMJ, New Scientist, Information World Review etc. book publishers 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 78


How much of the story do you see? :How much of the story do you see? Depends on: how the author of the feed has set it up first few lines whole article sometimes just the title your feed reader and how it has been configured there is always a link to the full article and source 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 79


Quality of RSS feeds :Quality of RSS feeds Quality dependent on source of the feed Assumed that RSS feeds are always immediate depends on publisher and aggregator may be deliberate policy to delay free services aggregator may take longer to generate the feeds than individual publisher may be delayed due to publishing schedule and/or technology in use Not all the articles may be available copyright clearance may not have been given by the author advertising and revenue issues why get the hard copy + adverts when available without ads electronically 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 80


Potential problems :Potential problems Can become addictive “Can’t talk now – have to squeeze five minutes work in between feed updates” Information overload don’t subscribe to unnecessary feeds delete feeds you no longer read use filters or the search option in your feed reader to automatically identify key stories Not always the most up to date e.g. FT, IWR, Moreover 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 81


Share and move ‘stuff’ around :Share and move ‘stuff’ around From one application to another, one service to another, one site to another RSS APIs Widgets Gizmos Flakes ‘Stuff’ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 82


Social bookmarking :Social bookmarking Social Bookmarking as a Knowledge Management Strategy, Robert Berkman, The Information Advisor Vol 11, No 1, March 2007, Knowledge Management Supplement http://www.informationadvisor.com/IA_KM_March07.pdf Furl http://www.furl.net Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Connotea http://www.connotea.org/ 2Collab (Elsevier) http://www.2collab.com/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 83


Design your own search engine :Design your own search engine For regularly searched sites selected sites on a topic searching sites on a reading list Rollyo http://www.rollyo.com/ max 25 sites Google Custom Search Engines http://www.google.com/coop/cse at least hundreds of sites, maybe thousands! no limit given in the notes can import lists of sites 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 84


Create your own Google CSE :Create your own Google CSE 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 85


Or host it on Google.. :Or host it on Google.. 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 86


Flickr :Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Owned by Yahoo! Share photos with selected individuals or make public Put photos of your library’s or organisation’s events on Flickr promote your department, information centre, organisation direct journalists to your ‘album’ when they ask for photos to accompany articles about you make sure you tag and describe them organise into sets decide on copyright and Creative Commons licenses http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukeig/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 87


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Sutton Libraries :Sutton Libraries http://www.flickr.com/photos/54117187@N00/747212623/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 89 Click on book to see catalogue entry and where you can borrow the book


Sutton Libraries :Sutton Libraries http://www.sutton-libraries.gov.uk/uhtbin/isbn-search/9780091914493 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 90


Slideshare, authorSTREAM :Slideshare, authorSTREAM Share presentations Include an accompanying commentary Keep private, share with selected people, or make public Slideshare does not keep animations and embedded links, authorSTREAM does Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/ authorSTREAM (can also convert to iPod and video for YouTube) http://www.authorstream.com/ Embed Slideshare and authorSTREAM in your blog, web site, Facebook profile, start page …….. 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 91


Slideshare :Slideshare 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 92


Slideshare :Slideshare 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 93 Identify a relevant presentation and Slideshare will try and find similar types of presentation


authorSTREAM :authorSTREAM 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 94


YouTube :YouTube http://www.youtube.com/ Owned by Google Videos of varying content and quality news broadcasts ‘how to’ videos, ‘fan’ videos, corporate broadcasts promo’s, advertising campaigns The Queen has a YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel Greg Notess, Google strange mid page results http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCjzo3bWIg Embed YouTube videos in your blog, Facebook page, start page, web site etc. 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 95


Greg Notess – Strange Midpage Results :Greg Notess – Strange Midpage Results 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 96 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCjzo3bWIg


Promos for events :Promos for events Embed in: Facebook web site blog start pages etc. etc. 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 97


Videos of conference presentations :Videos of conference presentations 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 98


Facebook :Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ Originally set up to enable students of Harvard University to keep in touch Now available to anyone Set up your personal profile Join and create groups can be open, closed or secret discussion boards, ‘Wall’, photos, videos, events Can monitor company/competitor groups and activist groups Monitor what people are saying about your organisation Someone may have set up a Group with your organisation’s name! East Renfrewshire Council Community Services http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18144605260 Dublin City Public Libraries http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin/Dublin-City-Public-Libraries/9761761153 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 99


East Renfrewshire Council :East Renfrewshire Council 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 100


Dublin City Public Libraries :Dublin City Public Libraries 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 101


Twitter :Twitter http://www.twitter.com/ ‘Microblogging’ ‘tweets’ 140 characters only what are you doing? send first 140 characters of your blog postings to Twitter using Twitterfeed.com ‘follow’ friends 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 102


Slide 103 :03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 103


Loads of Twitter applications :Loads of Twitter applications Twitter apps – http://twitterapps.co.uk/ Sidebar in your browser e.g. TwitKit http://engel.uk.to/twitkit/features/ 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 104


Twitter :Twitter What are people saying about you? Oh dear! 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 105


Twitter :Twitter 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 106


Who is on Twitter? :Who is on Twitter? 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 107 The BBC The Times 10 Downing Street


Conference Twitter Streams :Conference Twitter Streams “Blogging conferences is soooooo 20th century!” twitterers/tweeters abound at conferences The INSOURCE Conference Twitter Experiment http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2008/02/11/the-insource-conference-twitter-experiment/ can set up a Twitter event stream delegates, conference chairs, moderators can all comment on and monitor the proceedings use hashtags to follow conference postings send tweets to your blog using LoudTwitter generates a chronological list of your tweets by day and with the oldest listed first easier to read as a record of the event 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 108


Tweets to blogs via LoudTwitter :Tweets to blogs via LoudTwitter 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 109 http://karenblakeman.livejournal.com/


Hashtags :Hashtags Ideal for following conference tweets Follow hashtags on Twitter Include hashtag in tweet e.g. #interlend08 View hashtags on http://www.hashtags.org/ Also picked up by Twemes.com 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 110


Second Life :Second Life 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 111


Slide 112 :Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration. Jan Koblas, Chandos Publishing, ISBN 1-84334-178-6 Associated web site http://www.booki.info/display/website/Home How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library, Phil Bradley. May 2007, Facet Publishing, 224pp paperback ISBN: 978-1-85604-607-7 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 112


What next? :What next? Play and experiment You don’t have to try everything Focus on what you think will make your work easier, more productive, more effective If it does not work or it takes longer to carry out a task without significant benefits, ditch it! There is no law that says you have to use something just because it has a web 2 .0 tag 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 113


And finally….. to encourage you in your Web 2 endeavours, a short promotional video :And finally….. to encourage you in your Web 2 endeavours, a short promotional video 03 July 2008 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 114 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I