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. Examples of the web-based tools that make this possible are wikis, photo- and video-sharing sites, blogs, tagging, and social networking sites. Specific examples of sites that use these tools are Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Del.icio.us, and Facebook. 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.
Also check out this collection of resources for providing patron training on social software.
Guide to Core Web Tools
- Blogs for Libraries: What are blogs and why libraries should care
- Innovation - Tools: An overview of "web 2.0"--online collaboration tools and concepts
- 30-Minute Webinar: Public Computers and 2.0 Tools: Using Web 2.0 tools in the library (aka "Library 2.0")
- 23 Things Summit: A webinar on the "23 Things" approach to staff learning about online collaboration tools
- Social Software and the Rural Library: A webinar on using blogs, wikis, IM, and more in small or isolated libraries.
- Everyday Ethics: The Ethics of Facebook [WJ-Kansas]
- Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging: How to mark sites so you and others can find them
- Tagging: Best practices for tagging content
- Get Flickr-tastic! Using online photo-sharing sites for your library
- 31 Flavors - Things to Do With Flickr in Libraries: How to use photo-sharing web sites for your library
- Introduction to Chat Online chat and instant messaging: time saver or time waster?
- Mobile Instant Messaging Meets Social Networking: Twitter - A Beginner's Guide: A primer on the latest trend in online social communication tools
- Twitter and the Missouri River Regional Library: How one library uses Twitter for marketing communication
- Online Discussions: The various forms on online communications are covered
- U R the Best: Community Building through Chat: Using online chat to talk to patrons
- What is RSS and How to Use It: RSS is just another term for "online news feed"
- Blog the Web with RSS: Is it Really Simple Syndication? How RSS and blogs work together
- RSS-to-Email Keeps You Connected to the Action: How RSS and Email can work together
- Websites and Internet Resources on Computer Policies: includes examples of social networking policies
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Computing Takes to the Cloud
Take this tour of cloud computing to get familiar with the basics and some of the complexities. |
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Introduction to Social Networking
A presentation created in March 2011 summarizing social networking, including blogging, and the major social media websites, including Facebook and Twitter. |
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Getting Started with Blogging
A presentation for learning simple methods of writing blog posts and generating ideas for blog posts, with writing tips and links to blog-hosting sites and sources of more information. |
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Blog Writing Workshop for Librarians
A 60-minute workshop in which library staff members who are new to blogging learn simple methods of writing any kind of blog post and of generating ideas for blog posts. |
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Finding a Legal Comfort Zone on the Web
Archive and associated resources for the July 27, 2011, webinar with Eli Neiburger and Barbara Jones on how libraries can navigate through issues of intellectual freedom and privacy issues in emerging technologies. |
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