Government and Web 2.0

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Government and Web 2.0

• Who is Doing What
• Webmasters User Group
• September 28, 2007

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Web 2.0

• Wikipedia refers to a perceived second
  generation of web-based communities and hosted
  services such as social-networking sites, wikis
  and folksonomies which aim to facilitate
  collaboration and sharing between users.

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Web 2.0 Services

• Blogs
• Photo sharing
• Google stuff
• RSS feeds
• Social Bookmarking
• Social Networking
• Tag clouds
• Twitter
• Virtual Worlds
• Webcasts, Podcasts, Vodcasts
• Wikis
• YouTube

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Twittering?
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Government Info on Twitter

• Public Laws
• http//twitter/Publiclaws has listing of new
  federal public laws. Includes bill number,
  public law number, and title.
• The House Floor
• http//twitter.com/HouseFloor has live updates
  from the floor of the U.S. House of
  Representatives, updated every five minutes with
  any new information fromclerk.house.gov/floorsum
  mary/floor.html
• Los Angeles Fire Department
• http//twitter.com/LAFD -- full-spectrum life
  safety agency protecting the City of Los Angeles.
  353 followers.

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Life in a Virtual World

• Second Life

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NOAA in Second Life
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Social Bookmarking

• Del.icio.us (del.icio.us)
• Digg (www.digg.com)
• Netvouz (www.netvouz.com)
• Stumbleupon (www.stumbleupon.com)

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Inside Del.icio.us
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Wikis

• NY State Dept of Education Office of Library
  Services
• (http//schools.nyc.gov/Offices/TeachLearn/Office
  CurriculumProfessionalDevelopment/SchoolLibrarySys
  tem/Wikis/default.htm )
• US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals
• (http//www.ca7.uscourts.gov/wiki/index.php?title
  Main_Page )
• California State Trainers California Network of
  Learning Professionals. (password protected)
• New Zealand Police Act Review Wiki
  (http//wiki.policeact.govt.nz/pmwiki.php/Policing
  Act2008/PolicingAct2008 )
• State Agency Databases Across the Fifty States
  (http//wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agenc
  y_Databases )

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7TH Circuit Court of Appeals
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Blogs

• Office of the Governor (http//gov.ca.gov/blog)
• California State Library (http//blog.library.ca.g
  ov/)
• Boating and Waterways (http//www.dbw.ca.gov/Proje
  ctBlog/Index.asp )
• AMES Research Center blog (http//center.arc.nasa.
  gov/ )

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GovGabhttp//blog.usa.gov/roller/
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Social Networking
orkut
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And there is more

• Webcasts
• Podcasts
• Vodcasts
• Photo sharing
• RSS feeds
• Tag clouds
• LibraryThing
• Whats next?

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• Google maps
• Picasa (photo sharing)
• Docs
• Spreadsheet
• Word Processing
• eMail
• Blogger
• Calendar
• Sketch-up (build 3d models)
• Orkut (Social Networking)
• You Tube

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Delaware
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NASA Edge
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CDC Tag Cloud
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Thank you!
Kris Ogilvie California State Library kogilvie_at_lib
rary.ca.gov 916-651-6800