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What We Will Be Covering

• What is Web 2.0?• RSS Feeds and Blogs• Other Kinds of Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0?

• Encourages input from the user• Collaborative and Interactive• Driven by community needs• Combination of and reuse of

applications in new and efficient ways

• Meeting library customers where they already are

Old Web

• Passive• Static content• Top – down approach

New Web

• A site is published on the web, and readers modify it.

• Active.

Challenges

• Evaluation of what you are reading (Information Literacy)

• Security

RSS

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)

• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.90)

• Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91).

Blogshttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1189222,00.html?offer=web2.0iq

• “a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. . . a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or reflect the purpose of the Web site that hosts the blog.”

Blogs• Reading blogs• WWW.Bloglines.com

Blogs• Creating blogs• https://www.blogger.com/start• WordPress-free

Microblogginghttp://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/

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• Immediacy• Portability• Twitter: "A global community of

friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"

Other Examples of Web 2.0

• Bookmarking • Mashups• Online Office

Tools• Photo Sharing

• PodCasts• Social Streaming

Video• Virtual Reference• Wikis

Social Bookmarking

• Maintain your bookmarks on the web instead of an individual computer

• Share those bookmarks with others

• Give those bookmarks “tags” that enable others to find them

Social BookmarkingNhttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1268406,00.html#introetworking

• Popular versions include del.icio.us, Furl and StumbleUpon.

Mashups

• Avian flu mashup: interactive map tracing the spread of Avian Flu in birds and humans from September 2003 - April 2006.

http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com/pages/2006/05/avian_flu_mashu.html

Online Office Tools

• ZOHO• Google Docs• Open Office

Photo Sharing

• flickr• Dotphoto.com

PodCastshttp://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1189222,00.html?offer=web2.0iq

“A podcast is an audio file published on the Internet with an RSS feed, allowing users to subscribe to automatic downloads of a series of such programs.”

Social Networking

• The practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.

Streaming Videohttp://searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com/sDefinition/

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• Sequence of "moving images" • Sent in compressed form over the

Internet• Displayed by the viewer as they

arrive.

Virtual Reference

Wikishttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Wiki.html

• A collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors.

How Do I Keep All of this Straight?

• Social Aggregator• Flock• Friendfeed

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Cleo Pappas MLIS, AHIPCleo Pappas MLIS, AHIPcleop76@uic.educleop76@uic.edu

Rebecca Raszewski, MS Rebecca Raszewski, MS raszewr1@uic.eduraszewr1@uic.edu