Repository Development Officer The Headingley Library, James Graham Building Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park Leeds, LS6 3QS Email: [email protected]Main blog: http://repositorynews.wordpress.com/ Other blogs: http://personanews.wordpress.com/ http://bibliosightnews.wordpress.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrnick Nick Sheppard
Delivered as part of the "Scribbling on the job - effective writing for librarians" at Leeds Metropolitan University on 29th April 2010. * Several slides based on ideas from a presentation by Gareth Johnson "Confessions & Lamentations" - http://www.slideshare.net/GazJJohnson/ukoln-march2010confessions
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1. Repository Development Officer The Headingley Library, James
Graham Building Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park Leeds,
LS6 3QS Email: [email_address] Main blog:
http://repositorynews.wordpress.com / Other blogs:
http://personanews.wordpress.com/
http://bibliosightnews.wordpress.com/ Twitter:
http://twitter.com/mrnick Nick Sheppard
2. Writing for Web 2.0
What exactly is Web 2.0 anyway?
Why do I keep a blog?
Twitter hyperbole
Why do I tweet?
Whole-person-tweeting (or is all public communication
official?)
An anecdotal case study
What benefits could Web 2.0 offer to you or your
organisation?
Web 2.0 at Leeds Met
What are the pitfalls?
3. What exactly is Web 2.0 anyway?
User generated content
Dynamic
Interrogative
Social (usually)
Public (mostly)
Informal (generally)
All pervasive
Third party
4. Source:
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/21/twitterfeed.jpg
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-
NoDerivs 2.0 License .
5. Some Web 2.0 services
6. Why do I keep a blog?
Mandated by project funder (JISC)
Project documentation
I enjoy it!
Aide-mmoire
Thought processes/half-baked ideas
Communication
Community presence
Part of a network of blogs
7. Who reads my blog(s)?
JISC programme managers
Repository community
Twitter followers
Googlers
Quality is more important than quantity!
8.
9.
Has Twitter really changed the world?
Twitter is full of banal, meaningless drivel isnt it?
Twitter hyperbole is just a tool
10. Why do I tweet?
I enjoy it!
Community presence
One of the most effective networking tools Ive come across
Self-selecting enthusiasts
A friendly and engaging resource for asking questions (about
anything!)
Cross-pollination of blogs and projects
11. Image based on an idea by Gareth J. Johnson -
http://www.slideshare.net/GazJJohnson/ukoln-march2010confessions
12.
13. Twitter essentials
Whole-person-tweeting?
Its your call
Communicate and engage
#tags
To follow or not to follow?
Great ways to increase your followers! (Yawn)
Quality is more important than quantity!
14. An anecdote
Using Yahoo Pipes to redirect to Open Search metadata page
instead of intraLibrary public URL (and the power of Twitter)
http://bit.ly/6dQK3M
I tweeted about my RSS problem
@ ostephens helped me solve problem with Yahoo Pipes
15. What benefits could Web 2.0 offer to you or your
organisation?
Web 2.0 breaks down the corporate faade and humanises your
service
Go to where your users are dont expect them to come to you