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Practical uses for Web 2.0 in
     your organisation
Phil Bradley, Freelance Librarian and
        Internet Consultant.
       http://www.philb.com
Libraries and Web 2.0
•   It’s not about the tools
•   It’s about the mindset
•   It’s about the activity
•   It’s about freeing up time
•   It’s about taking control
So!
• What is it that libraries and librarians do
  again?
Communication - weblogs
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Minimum expectations
But how about...?
Flickr
But expand the use!
Wordle.net
Bookmarks/Favo(u)rites
• Share resources
• Network with colleagues
• Take a feed and place it onto an appropriate
  page
• Use it as a search engine
Del.icio.us
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Google RSS reader to share
         content
Wallwisher
Nik Peachey’s Wallwisher
Glogster
Home/Start Pages
•   Netvibes
•   Pageflakes
•   Virtual library pages or portals
•   Ease of updating
•   Interactive
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Social networking
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Ning
Google groups
Wikis
•   Self created websites
•   Single/multi authored
•   Public/private
•   Quick and dirty/Very professional
•   Short term task
•   Long term project
PBworks
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Disposable web pages
Google docs
Xmarks
Google Custom Search
Search with RSS
Instant chat
Ask a librarian!
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Twitter
Add a Twitter feed to your blog
Yammer or Shoutem
Screentoaster
Instructional videos
Slideshare.net
Embed presentations
WizIQ
Mash-ups
Podcasting
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Audacity recording software
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
Multimedia
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
VoiceThread
‘One trick ponies’
• They do one thing, very well.
LibraryThing
Bookseer
Drop.io
And then...
• Blend it all together
• Web sites are now of different importance
• Everything should link to everything else
Using Web 2.0 tools in the library
In summary
• ITANTTS
  – (It’s the activity, not the tool, stupid!)
• If a tool only does one thing, drop it
• Forget loyalty
• Try it and see what happens; understand what
  you want to achieve
• Combine and blend
• Take control!
Thanks to:
•   http://uklibraryblogs.pbworks.com/
•   http://www.flickr.com/photos/plymouthlibraries/3638349056/
•   http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Se2CEhZjQyo/SZ60IsJ9HmI/AAAAAAAAAeY/1ExtNzF_Pec/s1600-h/librarian%5B1%5D.jpg (For
    the ask a librarian cartoon)
•   http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/teachersweb20

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