2.0 Cafe Program Description
Library 2.0 Roundtable: Was held at the Sheraton Park Hotel, Palm Ballroom, Saturday 6/28, 2008, 1:30-3:30.
- It was WebJunction and MaintainIT community facilitated conversation exploring the questions you have about building successful and relevant online communities with your patrons and library colleagues. In the spirit of 2.0 technologies, we experimented with a live webcasting the session using our online conferencing tool Wimba Classroom.
- Menu (PDF attached)
- Library/Web 2.0 Glossary
Library/Web 2.0 Glossary
The Library and Web 2.0 Quick Glossary was created for the ALA 2008 Library 2.0 Roundtable hosted by WebJunction in cooperation with MaintainIT. Special Thanks to Stephanie Gerding and the Library Instruction Wiki (http://instructionwiki.org) for glossary content items.
Aggregator: A software package or web site that allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, getting the newest updates for a number of weblogs, sites, and online publications automatically in one place. Also known as an aggregator, feed reader, or newsreader.
Avatar: a graphic representation of a person online. Can be an icon, photo, or cartoon/computer animated image. Users can avatars online (for example http://avatars.yahoo.com). Some people try to make avatars look like themselves, and others go for idealized/stylized visions.
Blog: Short for weblog, a blog is an easily updated web site, generally in reverse-chronological order by date. These web sites range from personal diaries to professional tools and users can usually subscribe to them using a newsreader. Blogs often link to other blogs and comments from readers can help the blog take the tone of a conversation. Blog writers are called bloggers and engage in blogging. Blogging originated as a text-based activity, but now commonly includes photo, video (vlog), and audio (podcast) –based blogs.
Blogroll: A list of links on one blog that point to other blogs recommended by the blog owner. Linking to another blog is considered a sign of respect in the blogosphere.
Blogosphere: Network of bloggers on the web. Often connected via blogrolls, bloggers read and comment on each others’ blogs. Concepts spread from blog to blog until the entire blogosphere is “in the know.”
Creative Commons: Stanford copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig created the Creative Commons concept that allows content owners to specify a level of copyright protection that works for their needs. CC often relaxes copyright restrictions to promote creative freedom and remix, balancing end-users’ desire to freely use web information with authors’ intellectual property rights. CC replaces “all rights reserved with “some rights reserved.”
Del.ici.ous: A "social bookmarking" site. Users can store URLs, personal comments, and descriptive tags to organize web pages, working somewhat like a favorites “folder” on the Internet.
Federated Searching: allows searching of multiple repositories in one search interface. A federated library search would search a libraries subscription databases AND catalog in a single search.
Feeds: RSS is the most common type of feed, normally created for blogs, podcasts, websites, etc. Social-bookmarking services such as Delicious and Flickr let users subscribe to tag feeds via RSS.
flickr: A photo sharing site for digital photos. Allows users to add descriptive words, or "tags," to photographs, allowing discovery by the community and retrieval by photo owner.
Folksonomy: A way to classify data using collaborative efforts of an online community. Often falls under the heading of “tagging.” Del.icio.us and flickr develop folksonomies (taxonomy created by “folks”) via tagging.
IM: Instant messaging conversations are normally one-to-one and happen in real-time. Most services offer an indication of whether people on one's list of contacts are currently online and available to chat. This may be called a 'Buddy List'. Examples include AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Yahoo, GoogleTalk, and MSN.
Mash-up: A way to combine multiple tools and web sites to create a new interface, product or tool. One example: a happy hour website that that combines a Google map of a local area and user-submitted reviews into a zip-code searchable happy hour guide. Usually dependent on open or customizable APIs.
Microblogging: Involves sending brief posts to a personal web space or a microblog site (such as Twitter). Microblog posts are measure in characters (twitter limits to 140) rather than words or paragraphs.
Podcasting: putting audio content on the Internet, may be delivered via RSS feeds (see below), so that subscribers receive new content automatically. Can be downloaded to iPods, or other players, or listened to on a computer. There are free versions of software to allow you to record content using a computer with a microphone. Radical Trust: a web 2.0 concept of allowing organization members, employees, government officials participate in online community, content creation, site development, and information sharing. An example of radical trust is an organization’s use of blogs, wikis and social networking to cultivate relationships with an online community.
RSS: Stands for “real simple syndication” or “rich site summary.” You can subscribe to RSS-enabled weblogs, newspapers, journals, and other online content so that it automatically comes to you, rather than having to keep going back to the original site to see if new material has been posted. It's a way of packaging Web items such as blog entries in a stripped-down, XML-based format so that they can be imported into other web pages. Most blog-hosting services automatically create RSS versions of blog posts.
Screencasting: The act of capturing a video of your screen activity (for example, to show people in real time where to click, what to type, etc.). Camtasia and CamStudio are common screencasting tools.
Syndication: a way to decouple web information from actual websites, allowing users to subscribe to and consume information in the manner they choose. Prime are RSS and Atom feeds. Syndication is a great way of making news updates, blog entries and podcasts immediately available to a Web audience.
Social bookmarking: Online services which allow you to store your bookmarks online, categorize them, and share them with other site visitors interested in similar topics. Social Networking: Broad term for a many-to-many approach to online interactions. Social networking makes for greater collaborative work online. In social networking, users can have an effect on their online environment, shaping it to fit their needs and sharing their ideas with others.
Social software: Software that lets people connect, collaborate and communicate over the Internet. The collaboration may occur in real time (called synchronous collaboration) or at different times (called asynchronous collaboration), while the locations may be across the world or across an office. The ultimate goal of social software is to build a community around a given topic or issue.
Tags: to categorize online content. Tagging content allows it to be shared with others interested in similar topics; multiple tags can be given to the same content. Also referred to as folksonomies. Tag Cloud: A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites.
Twitter: A popular microblogging service that allows users to immediately share short (140 character) snippets of content via text messaging, the web, and other interfaces. Web 2.0: Coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2004, Web 2.0 is the second generation of the Web and involves the use of interactive, collaborative, and community oriented on-line experiences. It is all about collaboration, creativity, social software, radical trust, and systems and tools designed for easy data sharing.
Wiki: A collaborative web site where anyone can create new content or edit existing content
Cafe Brainstorms
These are responses to the Cafe question: How can your library apply 2.0 concepts and tools in a relevant way to engage your community?
- Smithsonian Institute, where people are spread all over the world, so they used YouTube type 60 minute presentations to introduce themselves to the rest of the remote co-workers and speak briefly about their job responsibilities.
- library uses a blog to replace their printed library newsletter
- Kids creating "how to" videos on emerging technology to post on the library website for community instruction
- videocasts with local oral histories collected into digital collections online (and partner with service groups to highlight local professionals to address succession planning for those with retiring staff)
- Storytubes project
- Offer 2.0 classes to your public to engage the community
- Use what you have to work around limitations like a clunky CMS (Content Management System)i.e - link to a blog or wiki you set up for free from your website to have community interactivity, use Surveymonkey for online registration rather than an expensive registration system or setting up complicated web forms.
Blog coverage of 2.0 Cafe
- BlogJunction post about ALA 2.0 Cafe
- MaintainIT(thanks Sarah and Brenda!!)
- Blah, Blah, Blah(thanks Stephanie!!)
- Librarian on the edge
- LSLC Training blog(thanks Stephanie!!)
Background Resources
- Web 2.0 Top 1000 resources
- Michael Wesch Web 2.0-explained video
- Wikipedia Unconference Resources
- World Café Hosting Guides
