Keep in Touch

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• Keep in Touch
• With Web 2.0
• Peter Bromberg
• http//librarygarden.blogspot.com
• Sophie Brookover
• www.popgoesthelibrary.com
• September 5, 2006

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Goals for Today

• Get a handle on Web 2.0
• Preview some Web 2.0 technologies
• Use Web 2.0 tools to keep in touch with your
  family!

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Web 2.0 Defined

• Web 2.0 is the next incarnation of the World
  Wide Web, where digital tools allow users to
  create, change, and publish dynamic content of
  all kinds

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Web 2.0 Defined

• We will all be publishers and creators of our
  own information and entertainment channels with
  these applications.
• -- Michael Stephens, Web 2.0 for Librarians,
  ALA TechSource Blog, www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2
  005/09/web-20-for-librarians.html)

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Web 2.0 In Short

• Personalized content
• Portable
• Many-to-many and few-to-few communication

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Web 2.0 Benefits

• Conversation
• Participatory, not passive
• Staying in touch has never been easier

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1.0 vs. 2.0

• Yahoo mail vs. Gmail
• E-mail vs. IM
• Newsletters vs. blogs
• Shutterfly vs. Flickr
• Isolated vs. interactive

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Some Web 2.0 Technologies

• Blogs/RSS
• IM
• Flickr
• Podcasting

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Blogs

• Frequently updated
• Entries in reverse chronological order
• Entries are usually brief, chock full of links
  commentary

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Blogs

• Individual blog entries are saved with a unique
  URL, and can be categorized and searched
• Entries are archived automatically
• Blogs can have one or more contributors.

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Why Use Blogs?

• Easy to update
• Easy to maintain -- multiple contributors!
• Start conversations with your friends family

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Lots of Choices Blog Software

• Blogger www.blogger.com/
• Type/Pad/Movable Type www.sixapart.com/movablety
  pe/
• MySpace www.myspace.com (Xanga, Facebook,
  LiveJournal)

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Blogs on Every Topic

• Arts culture
• Business
• Politics
• Pregnancy Infertility
• Parenting
• Crafts
• Libraries

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Blogs on Every Topic

• Sports
• Technology
• Travel
• Education
• Pop Culture
• Diaries
• Publishing

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Blogs Cross Every Demographic

• www.dooce.com
• http//www.masondixonknitting.com/
• http//ppltechtalks.blogspot.com
• http//www.urbanvancouver.com/blog/395
  (self-proclaimed Oldest Living Blogger)
• http//www.camdencc.edu/blogs/blogs.htm

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Technorati Blog Tracking

• www.technorati.com
• Currently tracking
• 52.7 million blogs
• Technorati calls itself a blog search engine.
  Its a great way to see whos talking about (and
  linking to) whom
• Many people have an ego feed

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RSS The Glue of Web 2.0

• Time For Pete to step in!

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Family Blogs

• http//thejhatfields.org/blog/
• http//crabapplelane.net/ftb_blog/
• http//www.macmynatt.com/family/
• http//www.haemibalgassi.com/

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Making the Most of Your Family Blog

• Bridge distances time differences
• Everyone on IM -- use a Meebo badge to draw
  readers into the conversation
• Share a family Flickr account
• Podcast major minor events

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IM What is It?

• Instant messaging is a form of real-time
  communication between two or more people based on
  typed text. The text is conveyed via computers
  connected over a network such as the Internet.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

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IM

• AIM www.aim.com
• MSN Messenger http//get.live.com/messenger/over
  view
• Yahoo http//messenger.yahoo.com/

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IM

• GTalk GMail Chat http//www.google.com/talk/
  
• Aggregate Your Accounts with Meebo
  www.meebo.com

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Meebo
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Why use IM?

• On-the-fly catchup sessions
• Communicate with Gen X Y family members on
  their terms
• Stretch your brain, learn a new skill

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Flickr

• A massive, and massively popular, photosharing
  site.
• www.flickr.com

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Using Flickr

• Upload photos
• Tag (assign keywords to) your photos
• Organize photos into sets
• Share password with family members for one big,
  happy online photo album
• Paste code for Flickr badge into your blogs
  sidebar

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Podcasting

• Podcasting could be called audio blogging.
  Podcasting is uploading an mp3 audio file to a
  blog post and syndicating it out via RSS 2.0 or
  an ATOM feed.
• -- Michael Stephens

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Podcasting Tools

• PC or Mac Audacity a cheap microphone
• http//audicity.sourceforge.net
• Mac only Garage Band v.3 (in iLife suite of
  programs)

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Audacity http//audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Podcasting For Your Family

• Oral histories
• Funny conversations between family members
• Babies first words
• Reports from the field college, study abroad,
  Peace Corps, vacations

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Dont Feel Overwhelmed!

• One 2.0 thing at a time
• Dont be afraid to make mistakes
• Dont fly solo -- create a team!
• Have fun!

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Further Reading

• New Wisdom of the Web (Newsweek/MSNBC article)
  http//tinyurl.com/f7vmn
• eHub interviews with Web 2.0 application
  creators
• http//www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/interviews/

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Wrap-Up

• Questions? Ask em!
• Please contact us with any questions that arise
  later
• sophie.brookover_at_gmail.com
• peterbromberg_at_gmail.com
• Thank you!