Social Networking & Web 2.0
The next generation of the Web (known as Web 2.0 or the "participatory web") brought innovations that turned the Web from a read-only environment into an online community where people meet, exchange information, collaborate, and communicate using web-based tools and social networking sites. These tools are now core to the Web, and a rapidly growing percentage of people now expect to be able to interact with people and content when they use the Web.
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Library Images Engage Inspire and Tell Your Story
Webinar / Last Modified: April 30, 2012
Archive and associated resources for March 30, 2010, webinar on marketing library services using images.
Climbing Out From My Rock to Look at Pinterest
News / Last Modified: April 20, 2012
The resources shared about Pinterest during our recent webinar are worth diving into.
I'll admit that I had not heard of Pinterest, the latest trend in online photo sharing, until a couple weeks before our webinar this month. My extremely brief investigation told me that Pinterest took the photo-sharing website concept (like Flickr) and added some new ways for users to organize and display their image collections. My colleague Jennifer collected some links about the tool and posted them to WebJunction in anticipation of the April 10 program. After having lived through so many of these launches and trends in online media, I have learned that the most interesting part for me is to watch all the creative "ants" who descend upon a new web application, and work and play with it, poke at it, stretch it, until they discover whether they find it useful (or fun, or both). Then they share their discoveries and their ideas with the rest of us, who then just copy what they already figured out how to do.
Pinterest and Libraries
Document / Last Modified: April 20, 2012
A collection of recent articles and links to libraries using Pinterest.
Virtual Connections
Webinar / Last Modified: April 12, 2012
Archive and related resources for a webinar presented on April 10, 2012 by Melanie Hedgespeth and Randy Merrell on libraries and Pinterest, QR Codes and Google Plus.
What to Consider When Evaluating and Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Your Lib
Document / Last Modified: March 26, 2012
From Planning for Success Cookbook section on Innovation.
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