I think I’ve just about recovered from my first NAG Conference, which was held this year at Keele University…
A big “thank you” to everyone who came along to the “Web 2.0 – It’s Okay to Play” workshops and I hope it sparked one or two ideas that you might want to pursue!
Some of the photos I took are now on Flickr (I’ve used the tag “nag2007”).
The presentation is available to view or download at SlideShare: www.slideshare.net/daveyp/n-a-g2007
As promised, here’s those links for you to explore…
slide 23 – “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” video
- YouTube
- mediatedcultures.net – has links to higher resolution versions of the video
slide 24 – Some Web 2.0 concepts
- Wikipedia – Web 2.0
- What Is Web 2.0? (Tim O’Reilly)
- Web 2.0 Compact Definition: Trying Again (Tim O’Reilly)
slide 29 – The “Network Effect”
slide 31 – University of Illinois Survey (2006)
- http://results.webuse.org/uic06/ – the report no longer seems to be available to download 🙁
slide 32 – US Internet User Demographics
- Demographics of Internet Users (Pew Internet)
slide 39 – Library Blogs
- University of Glamorgan, LRC Blog
- New York Institute of Technology Library Blog
- Ann Arbor District Library
- Ohio University Libraries News
- Cambridge Libraries Blog (Canada)
- Thomas Ford Memorial Library – local history project
- Delany Library News
- University of Worcester ILS Matters
slide 40 – Internal library blogs
slide 45 – Library staff blogs
- Moira Bent, Moira’s Info Lit Blog
- David Bigwood, Catalogablog
- Tom Roper’s Weblog
- Metalibrarian
- David Lee King
- Annoyed Librarian
- Peter Godwin
- Jane Secker
- Pete Smith, Library Too
slide 46 – Technorati
slides 47 & 48 –
slide 50 – Blogs: Doing it yourself
slide 51 – Blogs: Externally hosted options
slide 52 – Finding blogs
- Technorati
- Google Blog Search
- LibWorm
- LISZEN
- HotStuff – tag cloud of popular topics (more info)
slide 54 – Micro-blogging
- Casa Grande Library
- Nebraska Library Commission, reference questions
- University of Illinois, UGL alerts
- A Guide to Twitter in Libraries (Ellyssa Kroski)
- Twitter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter (David Lee King)
slide 57 – RSS feeds
slide 58 – Some general RSS feeds
- BBC News
- Met Office
- BBC Weather Centre
- Radio 4, Today – podcasts
- National Library for Health
- Highways Agency
- 10 Downing Street
- UK National Newspaper RSS Feeds
slide 59 – Library RSS feeds
- The Bookseller – RSS icon at bottom of page
- EBSCO Finally Gets RSS Right (Jenny Levine)
- College of New Jersey
- University of Kent
- St. John’s College
slide 62 – Tagging in practise
- Flickr
- flickrvision
- retrievr
- Colr Pickr
- Flickr Suduko
- LibraryThing
- LibraryThing for Libraries
- Danbury Library – uses LibraryThing for Libraries
- Randolph County – uses LibraryThing for Libraries
slide 63 – Web services and mashups
- OCLC xISBN
- LibraryThing thingISBN
- Amazon Web Services
- Harry Potter – mashup (xISBN + Amazon)
- amaztype – mashup (Amazon)
- dartmaps – mashup (Google Maps)
slide 65 – Library wikis
- University of Connecticut Libraries’ Staff
- Stevens County Rural Library District
- Huddersfield, Electronic Resources
- Huddersfield, Info Desk
- University of South Carolina Aiken Library
- Ohio University Libraries Biz Wiki
- Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
slide 66 – Setting up a wiki (yourself)
slide 67 – Setting up a wiki (externally hosted)
- pbwiki
- Wikispaces
- WikiMatrix – compares wikis
slide 69 – Social networking
slide 71 – Social bookmarking
more links
Kathryn Greenhill has been posting some excellent and level-headed articles about Library 2.0 on her Librarians Matter — the most recent of which is “What’s new about Library 2.0? Shift in power“.
If you were intrigued (or horrified!) by tagging and folksonomoies, then check out Ellyssa Kroski’s blog post “The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging“.
One of the most interesting staff development projects has been the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County “Learning 2.0 Program“, designed by Helene Blowers.
I’m sure that there are at 100 other things I could have linked to, so please feel free to post a comment with worthy links!
final note
I didn’t seek permission to include any of the blogs and wikis in the presentation and most were just picked at random as examples. Hopefully the owners didn’t mind me linking to them!
I found the workshop both informative and inspiring!
I am sharing your presentation with colleagues today in an effort to kick-start our discussions here on some practical applications.
Many thanks