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Slideshow available at: http:libs.uga/presentations/lipsmacking

Lip-smacking Good. Slideshow available at: http:www.libs.uga.edu/presentations/lipsmacking.ppt All links available at:. Lip-smacking Good. Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog. Overview: Introductions Brief intro to Web 2.0

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  1. Lip-smacking Good Slideshow available at: http:www.libs.uga.edu/presentations/lipsmacking.ppt All links available at:

  2. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Overview: • Introductions Brief intro to Web 2.0 • Blogging: Brief overview of what we are doing and blog/social networking choices • Fun stuff: • flickr (image hosting) • del.icio.us (bookmarking + tagging) • YouTube (video hosting) • Widgets (snapshots, meebo, twitter, etc.) • RSS feeds (technorati, pageflakes, etc.) +Mashups

  3. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • A little more about Web 2.0: • Web 2.0 technologies provide an easy way to store, describe, share, discover,organize and create information in a way that makes sense to user • Web 2.0 is collaborative • ·Web 2.0 technologies provide an ease of use (little or no coding experience needed) • Web 2.0 facilitate discovery (e.g., the ability to share, recommend, or discover resources from other users) • Power to the people! So, how can libraries tap into this?

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  5. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Blogging: • One of the easiest way to tap into Web 2.0 technologies is through the use of blogging. We have been blogging since January 2005. • We use Wordpress (open source software) hosted on the libraries server

  6. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • ·A little about Wordpress • Wordpress • Advantages/Disadvantages • Customizing • Wordpress MU • How it differs from regular Wordpress • Advantages/Disadvantages What if you can’t host a blog?

  7. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Blogging: • Free choices hosted elsewhere: • Blogger • Wordpress.com • TypePad Why would you want to blog?

  8. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Blogging • Reasons to Blog/social network: • PR/Marketing • Subscription via RSS feeds; also ability to embed content into other websites (pageflakes etc.) • Ease of updating website • Instant updating/editing • Provide a more informal “face” to the library • Push out content to users, i.e. be in their space

  9. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Blogging: • Guidelines & writing style sheets • Finding contributors • To comment or not to comment • High ranking pages in Google

  10. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • The Fun Stuff • Image hosting (free) - Flickr • Free and easy to use • Paid accounts have more privileges, but free accounts can get the job done • Uses for blogging and websites • Flickr toys (slideshows, etc.) • Networking • Creative commons/licensing • Find graphics and images for use

  11. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • flickr • Libraries/librarians doing neat things with flickr • LibraryMan (Michael Porter) http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman • Dewey Graduate Library - University at Albanyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ualibraries • NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Centerhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ncsu_scrc/

  12. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Image hosting - Flickr • Fun stuff to do in your blog or website with flickr • Slideshows • Flickr badges

  13. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Social bookmarking – del.icio.us • Free and easy to use • Uses for you or your library • Centralized storage of resources/links lists in del.icio.us • Easy to update – no coding necessary • Bookmarks travel with you – never lose them! • Resource sharing and Discovery (recommend links, find popular links by tag, etc.) • Private or shared • Pathfinders/guides for individual classes • Bibliographies

  14. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Social bookmarking – del.icio.us • Uses for websites and blogging • Del.icio.us toys (links list, tag clouds, etc.) • Networking • Resource sharing and discovery • Easy maintenance of links lists

  15. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Social bookmarking - del.icio.us • Nashville Public Library – TeenWeb http://www.library.nashville.org/teens/teenweb.asp • College of New Jersey – Italian Studies Pathfinderhttp://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html • UGA Libraries • Cataloging Resources • Weird & Wacky Web Watching

  16. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Video hosting (free) – YouTube • Free and easy to use; accepts most formats; no need to convert! • Videocasting • Provides easy way to get videos on the web • Embed into blog posts • Is now owned by Google

  17. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog Video hosting – YouTube • Uses • Embed videos in blogs, presentations, websites, etc • Storage space (no need to store large size videos on server) • Networking • Resource sharing and Discovery • Videocasting

  18. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog Video hosting – YouTube • Day in the life of the Library - St. Joseph County Public Libraryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrtYdFV_Eak • Installing a new OS on library computershttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIrxuF5NSo • Why do NJ patrons love their libraries?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeQI25n8qPQ • Guide to the library – from Williams Collegehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-t0LHnw-fc

  19. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Wonderful world of widgets • What is a widget? • Widgets are just little tools which are generally easy to install in a user interface. Widgets can be embedded in blogs and websites (snapshots, flickr toys, etc.), downloaded for use on the desktop or on a mobile device. Blogger and wordpress are both utilizing widgets more. Pageflakes, a free web based service, uses widgets to put the page together. Pageflakes widgets include RSS feeds, flickr, and even static webpages.

  20. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Wonderful world of widgets • Widgets make it easy to embed third party content (flickr, YouTube, etc.) or even code into websites with little or no coding experience. Widgetbox is an excellent resource! • Widgets are frequently drop n drag or copy and paste. • Examples of widgets to embed in websites: flickr slideshows, YouTube movies, snapshots, links lists, etc. • Pageflakes and netvibes are two widget based services

  21. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Meebo provides a single interface to AIM, Yahoo, MSN Chat • Meebo widgets are embeddable • > Meebo in action

  22. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • Snapshots provide a popup preview of links.

  23. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog • A little about RSS feeds • What are RSS feeds? • RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication • RSS provides an easy way for users to find and subscribe to information. Makes content portable to other web pages. • Feedburner

  24. Lip-smacking Good Web 2.0 Technologies + Your blog A little about Mashups • What is a Mashup? • In web terms, a mashup takes content or data from different sources or services to create a new thing • An example of a mashup is Flickr Maps which uses both images from Flickr and Google Maps

  25. Resources • Web 2.0 Minipresentation: • http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dkcxvp2_7d7ms9d • Web 2.0 movie: • This presentation: • Slideshare • Del.icio.us • Handouts at googledocs • Contact: • Amy, amywatts@uga.edu • Robin, fay@uga.edu • http://www.robinfay.net • fay@uga.edu Lip-smacking Good:

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  27. Thank you….. Lip-smacking Good:

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