This post explains how the project will work. There are 14 Web 2.0 tools in the project listed under "Learning 2.0 Things": blogs, wikis, tagging, RSS feed, YouTube, MySpace, podcasting, Facebook, LibraryThing, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter, IM, and text messaging. There are also several other links about these tools that you might find useful and interesting. Only the 14 things listed here are part of the project.
The purpose of the project is to give staff the opportunity to learn about Web 2.0 tools, how they can be used to enhance library services, and acquire a functional knowledge of how they work in order to promote the Library's web based services. You can start at any point in the list, top, bottom, middle, it doesn't matter. When you have finished reading about each tool, post your comments and questions here, under this post. Answers to questions will be posted here too.
You may recall during a recent staff meeting Sherry Gomez announced that The Friends of the Library had generously donated a gift certificate for the lucky winner of the drawing at the completion of the project. Anyone who completes the project within the time period is eligible to enter the drawing. Completing the project means reading and commenting on each of the 14 social networking tools. Posts are chronological so this one will not always be at the top of the page, just scroll down until you see it.
The project will run from September 2 through November 15, 2008. You will need to have entered a comment on each of the 14 Web 2.0 tools by 6:00 pm Saturday November 15th to be eligible for the grand prize drawing.
Remember the Carrot and Have Fun!
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Diane is here at the regional
Rovia and Mercedy needs a new MP3 player
first time. I hope I do this right
commenting for practice
Hi this is carol at regional meeting.
At a meeting to learn how to do this. Am I suceeding?
Yay blogging and learning 2.0!
I'm not spelling welllll.
Here are the things that I have already done previously, now need to go and do the others on the list.
LOOOOVE Del.icio.us... best thing that I have found so far. Used to hate not having the bookmark that I needed on my computer when it was saved somewhere else.
I like Podcasts, would like to investigate more into creating them and also videocasting.
You Tube is great, love seeing some of the videos out there, but then some of them need to be more private. I don't know that I would personally add videos though.
RSS Feeds are great, I like the ability not to have to go back to each site to see if there are new things to see, view.
Myspace and Facebook, in my opinon, both are okay. Myspace more for the pre-teen and Facebook now becoming the teen and adult location. I have had a myspace account for a while, but do not really like it, go it because my sister wanted to comminicate that way. Don't visit it much. Like Facebook better.
Hi Marci,
I think you may have one more to do, wikis.
Chris,
Yes sir you are done!
I'm learning how to use web 2.0 tools.
Rhonda McIntire
Karen and Erica here at the Meeting! Very informative & lots of fun!
Rosamond Branch Rocks! Pam says so!
this is a test
We are the Janets at the Regional meeting.
test
I was at Ridgecrest Regional Meeting!!
Kris
I already have an MP3 player - mostly for use at the gym! I bought a Motorola "sports" model. At my gym, they play numerous TVs and also the radio! It's very schizophrenic, annoying and distracting. Blocking out that noise with my own music selection piped into my own ears is much better!
Vicki at Regional meeting
Thanks for telling us about the blog and NewsBank today. Marsha
I already have an MP3 player - mostly for use at the gym! I bought a Motorola "sports" model. At my gym, they play numerous TVs and also the radio! It's very schizophrenic, annoying and distracting. Blocking out that noise with my own music selection piped into my own ears is much better!
Shiann at regional meeting
which "library"-related websites are the best? I am on "LibraryThing" and enjoy it; except I am too slow to get on the active reviewer lists.
I have looked at some of these things but they take same time, I think it'll be fun though.
Facebook, I think began as, and was intended to be a business page.
YouTube is hilarious! It might be a serious distraction as a library resource.
Twitter is just fun.
I use wiki's when ever I need to know how long I have to go with my manga titles and also school.
I just watched "Blogs in Plain English", so apparently I've been blogging all along... so here is my latest news, I get to go to the CLA Conference in San Jose this November. I'm really excited about going, I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
Wikis are great, they simplify planning, allowing multiple users to contribute and manipulate a webpage great idea whoever thought of it!
I can't believe how many abbreviations there are for text messaging. It seems that I am behind the times or I have been "AAK" ;o)
I created an account on Library Thing and added a couple of titles, and reviewed book reviews, and added tags to a collection. This is a great resource. I checked into “Tags” under technocrati, and enjoyed the information, and the meaning of the e authenticity number.
I signed on to Face book, and joined several networks, will email a staff member. This site has quite a potential for communicating about future events
I signed on to MySpace and I need to add an image to it, and check out the blogs
I created an account on Twitter, and I am looking forward to some replies
till to do: .
YouTube
Podcasting
Flicker
Podcasting turns out to be much more than I thought it was. I was under the impression that "podcasting" was downloading music into an "ipod", it's really so much more than that!
I did'nt think DELICIOUS was delicious at all. YouTube on Obama was the only site I enjoyed listening to.
meow - comment at meeting!
This is Cathy at the regional meeting trying to figure this out.
comment at meeting :)
Who has time for all of this?
HI! Just participating in the Regional Meeting! HI!
Judi says Hi from Taft
It was interesting to look at the abbreviations for the messaging. I see people with fingers flying when texting.
Leafy Sea dragons! The Green Bear project is so interesting.
Okay, I wasn't sure about practical uses for Flickr, but guys... have you seen the SW Library Halloween photos? I think Flickr is a good way for library branches to share things between each other. Or show off. :)
PS: YouTube is officially my second-favorite website in the world. It's got everything from Romanian rock videos to hand-animated cartoons from the 1930's to cat herding videos. If you can't find it on YouTube, it doesn't exist. I helped an older lady today by searching YT for clips of Charlie Chaplin movies, and in doing so, I found the one she wanted! This was good for her, because she would have checked out the other 3 movies otherwise, without getting what she wanted.
Twitter, ok, you all know by now that I'm really out of it when it comes to all this "instant" anything technology. I did like the quote on Twitter about the concept sounding really stupid until he got involved. Maybe there's hope for me?
The Library wiki has a lot of good info. I checked out Programs for Adults and found some pretty easy to do programming ideas. I'm remembering this wiki!
Saw some of the highlights of the election campaign on Youtube. Pretty neat to have all of that available.
I've visited Wikis: library success, went to reference services, saw a blog called Library Grunt. He sounds like us, everything we've ever said or felt. Nice that we're not alone in our thoughts and gripes, but I wouldn't tune in to his blog again.
Hi, I took a little break and now that I'm cramming for the big deadline, I'm seeing that these 14 look familiar. I used the "find" key for my name to see if I could pick them out of the 296 posts but found I commented 2x on a few. Long way around to say I think I'm done. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. thx.
Sandy,
I just recounted and by my count using the Find feature, you have commented on 13: Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Blog, Podcast, IM, LibraryThing, del.icio.us, Twitter, wikis, text messaging, MySpace and tagging.
Nice use of YouTube Merry! and thanks for the cat herding video, very funny. Where did they get all the cats?
Wow, Twitter. All I can say is "Ew!" I hate when people pick up their cell phones and ask "What are you doing?" Do we really want to know what people are doing every second of the day? I'm singing German disco music, I'm sneezing, I'm searching for a tissue, I can't find a tissue, I'm using my sleeve... I mean, really? Does anyone want to be "hyper-connected"? The only practical use I see is for helicopter moms and their activity overloaded children.
PS for Twitter: this would be a huuuuge distraction at work. I envision things like "I'm breathing through my mouth so I don't smell this patron!" "LOL I'm surfing myspace on worktime!" "I just won $400 on some offshore poker site!"
Tagging: Love love LOVE LOVE LOVE! tags! I am a librarian at heart, and like to organize everything according to my fancies, and tagging is great for that. It lets me find posts faster, it helps me search things with better relevance, and it helps me organize my thoughts better. I love Delicious, how could I not love tags?
And Wikis. Ah, my dear wikis. Is there anything they can't do? Wikis are constructed to mimic human thought patterns by linking words to relevant pages. I've got a wiki-making program on my computer, and I use to for databasing all my characters that I make up, I use it for Greek mythology, and I made a California History wiki last year for a class. Btw, I got an A in that class, all thanks to my homemade wiki. Even if wikis weren't useful, it's fun to say wiki. Wiki wiki wiki.
Merry,
Oh Twitter, it's for the very needy. I'm impressed with your wiki-ing, I tried to set-up one with PB Wiki but it was too hard, took up too much time. Would you share your Cal Hist wiki, I'd like to see it?
I got an email subject line that said "David Webb is following you on Twitter." Luckily David (former BEA libn) is my friend, but does anyone else think the "following you" line sounds creepy? He's been watching KCL's 2.0 progress and getting inspired but at his library, everything they do on the computer has to go through County computer which is a little resistant to the neat ideas the library's generating.
The only thing I missed on our challenge is RSS feed, which I did for a while using Herb Benham's column from the Bakersfield Californian newspaper. I dropped it after 2 wks since I already read him in the real paper and, as much as I like him, one reading is enough. I get the Library's news and events in RSS.
We're trying to figure out in Reference how to make ourselves an internal blog and how to share incident reports within the public service desks at Beale. In the back of my head, though, I wonder would these be considered a work product and therefore open to public scrutiny...
Sandy,
I do believe there is an option on blogspot that allows you to keep the blog private and away from public view. I don't know, however, if it can be password protected. I'll see what I can learn.
Ok, just checked and there is an option that allows for a choice of who gets to view the blog by email address. This would be a good venue to communicate things going on at the desk.
:( Sorry, that California History wiki was destroyed when my computer crashed earlier this year. Mostly, it was just tailored to the CalHist study guide the teacher gave me. :( Sorry.
Okay, continuing on for my mp3 player! :3
Blogs: Yay! so much potential! It helps me keep in touch with friends MUCH better than with an instant messaging thing, as most of the people I know don't spend all day on the internets, and instead post a blog once every few days. That way, I know what they're up to, and it's more relevant/in-depth than something instant. I like that blogs can be updated at any time, so there's "instant" with it; and also that blogs can be searched through tags/date/subject, so you can go back a couple days or weeks to see more.
And blogs are so versatile! There's the original "online diary" use, the after-school club's blog (I used to run one for the anime club in high school), the day-by-day blow-by-blow theater blog, dorm floor newspaper blog, interlibrary blog... the possibilities are endless! :D
LibraryThing: hey, I've got a program called "Books" for my Mac that cataloges all the books I own. However, LT is waaaaay cooler! I can review my books, and read reviews from other people, as well as see how they tagged it, and what recommendations there are for other books. Thank god I'm not the only who thought Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell was like running through quicksand! Hoorah!
Hello KCL staff,
I'm not sure I am going to complete the Web 2.0 items by the deadline, but I thought someone may enjoy the following YouTube entry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dUSLl18C60
There's no sound. It was created as a quick video to embed into a website for a class assignment. The embedding of the video was the focus of the assignment so the content . . .well, that was less restricted. Anyway, hopefully you'll enjoy the Southwest Branch antics.
Cheers.
Thanks Marcus! I needed that video today especially! :)
oh love the lamb on the tour of flicker, so i think this gets me at the halfway mark...but don't count me out yet fellow staff. I will make sure to complete all 14 so I can enter that drawing.
I loved Marcus's video.
Can I hire you to turn my grants class into one of these?
LibraryThing will prove to be a useful if I ever find the time to get all of my books into it. Anyone heard whether there is anything like this for Music?
Tagging is everywhere now it seems, I like the ability to add a tag that means something to me and not just a standard generic LOC subject. I have used this on Amazon, and seen it on many other sites. Like it in LibraryThing as leads to many other interesting reads to find It also leads to some interesting and amazing pictures in flicker.
Flicker and Picasa are both great, as they provide ways to share your pictures with friends and family, without the email or snail mail back and forth. This along with blogs, youtube and facebook you have the ability to keep everyone up to date with what is going.
There seems to be a wiki for everything. I personally like, wikihow.com (a how to manual for almost everything) who would have thought, they even have step, by step instructions on how to tie your shoes. Loved the warning that went along with it “Do not leave your left index finger in the hole between the loops otherwise it will be tough to walk in the tied shoes.”
Well I tried texting and guess who failed…. Not the 8 year old I was texting with.. who would have thought?
IM and I are not friends. I am a constant editor, and find that by the time I have gone back, re-read what I wrote, made my many changes and then pressed send, my friends and family are already 5 conversations ahead of me.
Gail, I think this completes the list but please check me to make sure.
Ok so it appears I already have a FACEBOOK account, so now i just have to figure out my password from who knows when, or ask my daughter since she usually signs me up for those things..but i guess I wasnt really into it enough to remember my password and continue with it.
As for TEXTING - I love that one because now I can learn all the abbreviations. It seems that the kids use it in conversation as well as on the computer or cell phones so know when my daughter starts talking to her friends in abbreviations I can be nosey!! So far that one is the best one for me.
INSTANT MESSAGING- ok this one i have down really good. This was popular when AOL online first came out....very easy if you only IM one or two people at a time.
RSS- this one I did at the regional meeting. I even signed up for it on my yahoo account...I like that one
LIBRARY THING- this one is good if we want to join a book club or something right. I like this one so i can at least try to join a book club where I pick the genre of the book..
Ok so why was my comment about IM and RSS posted as anonymous..Kinda like the in house count I guess Sherry...well those two were mine.
TRICIA ALBUREZ
dont count me out yet guys. this is my last day here at work before the deadling so i will finish them today...
oK well Really I am not cheating fellow staff, but the one about the WIKIS above is mine too...mark those to Tricia please Gail...
cancel last comment, I meant the one about LIBRARY THING...I am on wikis now....that one is good for advertisement and sharing ideas. I like that one I just might have to work with for a while....to get it down good.
PODCASTING- ok i guess seems like talk radio.
ok last two I believ;
TAGGING- seems too confusing and long to get to where you want to be. I liked the others better.
TWITTER- for me was also a bit confusing. Maybe because squeezed my last ones into a days work. But i will spend more time learning this one. Something caught my attention making me want to learn it so this one is my new conquer mission. So I believe that wraps the 14 up for me
I checked out LibraryThing... connecting with people who have read the same books as you or who are currently reading the same book could be really fun.
I have already checked out Delicious, apparently "tagging" is part of social bookmarking. I think that is a great way to take your favorite pages with you to whatever computer you are logged on.
Gail, did I get all 14?
Hi Merry,
By my count you have RSS and Podcasting left, right?
ALMOST DONE
Tomorrow is the last day to leave comments for the grand prize drawing. If you have questions about how many you have left to complete, email me.
okay- my current favorite on you tube is "stuck on escalator"-- do you think the guy really owns a cell phone and is just fibbing? Sherry
well, I tried to IM the great Ref staff last week or so, but it froze, and was unable to do it offsite. They answered my question the old fashioned way, by phone.
Oh, by the way, Horn Book has podcasts!! I signed up for an RSS feed from our webpage, i think Dewars needs one to tell us when they announce a new flavor or a new chew. Sherry
has anyone actually gone thru all of the top 100 learning tools at delicious? I have lurked at LibraryThing, but this time I actually signed up to review a book. Sherry
Just a few hours left KCL staff! A big thanks to Gail who put this together for us and to David, who got it up and running. I took a look at Library Thing and was almost tempted. I can understand why people who like books, talking about books and sharing books would be drawn to this site.
I'm old fashioned (some may say an old fuddie duddie!), but I want to keep my life private from all but a few. My Space has no personal appeal, but I understand how those who enjoy social networking flock to the site and how libraries can use it to get the word out.
Text messaging...interesting to find the abbreviations for text and it is pretty amazing that a person can connect this way. Again, give me good old email and I'm happy. If someone REALLY needs to contact me they can call. In my mind, talking on the cell or texting are equally distracting.
Alright, I bet I totally missed the deadline. :( Oh well, this was an interesting experience! In case I didn't miss it yet:
RSS: This is so cool-- instead of me going to each of my favorites to check if new episodes/chapters/whatever are up, the updates come to ME. Yay! This saves me time so I can troll around YouTube more.
Podcasting: I keep getting podcasts from the Nanowrimo people. It's so weird; I've gotten a podcast from Philip Pullman to spur on the creative writing flow... he sounds like a normal person. Crazy. I like it, but I left it on while I wandered out of my room and when I came back, he was still talking. It freaked me out so much. :D Hahaha.
Okay, I think I was missing IMs. How glad I was to notice that I had until Saturday! Yes! :D
IMs: with the proper technology and enough librarians, I think IMs could be such a great tool. I know my mom already does 24/7 and that she likes it.
My bank also offers instant messaging service during business hours, and those sessions have saved me countless trips to the bank.
It was especially helpful when I was in San Francisco to be able to talk to the people from my Kern County-based bank without needing to whip out my cell phone. I wasn't put on hold, I didn't get lost in a phone tree, and my reception didn't cut out when it wanted, because I was chatting with the guy online! Also, I had to give information to him, like my account number and stuff, and it felt so much more secure over the bank's chat system than over a phone.
I just worry that the computers at the library can't handle it. I've used 24/7 once before, and the ancient computer I was using froze and crashed before I could tell the librarian "thank you!".
PS: I just found a myspace page where the girl makes podcasts of herself reading her angsty blog entries. Mayhaps we are too connected?
Thanks to everyone for participating and leaving such interesting comments, I enjoyed reading them all.
Yes Merry you made the deadline and completed all 14 Things.
I agree, Chat is for more enjoyable that phone trees and waiting on hold for the next available...
The Learning 2.0 Project is closed. Stay tuned for the Grand Prize Drawing!
My comments are well past the contest deadline but I want to explore and learn just the same so I have been busily signing up for blogging, Social Bookmarking, Im'ing, Flickr, Twitter, etc. accounts. I feel as though I am exploring a new continent.
I lost contact with my best friend and emailed her via Flickr. I did a name search and located (well I HOPE it is her, lol)an individual of the same name and sent her a quick note. I also gave an apology in advance to the person in case it is not the person I do know!
I am off to 2.0 land-wish me well :)
I am currently viewing FLICKR 365 Library Days:
I do like the idea of visually documenting our library (and the experiences within) for historical preservation. Sometimes I know I take the little things for granted in my busy life and it would be nice to have a reminder to look back on-especially if it was an inspirational or otherwise noteworthy moment in our life.
Now I can make REAL use of my Blackberry. Should we get together and designate subjects to specific departments (or individuals) to document our days (or special moments)?
I did learn a bit more about Delicious and the possibilities this application has for librarians. It is a great way to share the resources that we find and assist with centralzing them too. I do wish it was possible to use two words when choosing each 'tag'.
Facebook is a great way to stay in contact, especially when there is the photo with the name. I am still trying to locate a number for the friend that I have lost contact with. I did find a number but it had been disconnected so the search is on...
I visited Libworm. I came across an article called "An answer, Converged Devices, Barcodes & the Future". It's location is via the libworm tag cloud "Tame the Web". The author posed a question using a 2D code which are acording to Snapper.com: "Like ID Barcodes-They identify an object uniquely...virtually identify anything...Anybody can scan this code and get to the information you decided to put in". It seems 2.0 is creating virtual possibilites that are ripe with library application possibilities. How about using this type of advertisement for our programs and events?
I signed up for a Twitter account and today I located my cousin. Another lost contact found via 2.0 technology. At the CLA conference the Infopeople mini-session speaker talked about Twittering and she mentioned that there might be some who consider the 140 character limit a pain. I don't mind it but I have only just begun so stay tuned...
I added ten books to my library at LibraryThing today. I haven't reviewed them of course but that will have to wait till a later date. Perhaps I will only add a book when I have the time to post the review as well?
I have to admit the more I do this 2.0 thang the more I like it and the less intimidating it is. It is sort of addicting to go from anonymous to not so in a weird sort of way. My next test is to plough through the many IM abbreviations and according to webopedia there are 1000 of the little buggers.
What is the consensus on the shift from 'regular' library to 'library 2.0'? What do you all think about this? Are we ready for this change? Do we have the infrastructure to handle the new 2.0 or 3.0 information portal? I know times are changing. I am really convinced that the library will be in our society for many years to come. However, it remains to be seen just in what capacity it will continue to offer its services. I liked the article by Mr. Casey and Mr.Stephens entitled "The Transparent Library: Six Signposts on the Way". They write concerning this very topic, "Focus on user-driven policy, not driving users away...We recognize that true reference questions are slipping on our stats pages, but demand for access to the web, emerging technologies, and traditional library services can still thrive."
Went on myspace and posted a blog. I haven't officially added any friends yet since I haven't had the time to respond to the initial set up email from the site. No real ideas on this site yet since I haven't got to play in there. I have noticed that my teenage boys do quite a bit of activity there so it must be interesting...
All of these new terms to learn around the 2.0 galaxy, such as tagging. I like the terminology. Gives one the sense that they are doing something on the DL but it isn't really bad just a turn of the phrase which is fun for us old timers, lol. There is also a sense of freedom to tagging. I get to choose whatever terminology I prefer. Talk about satisfied librarian!
I created a blog and now I cannot locate the thing! Anyone else have that situation? I guess I can now make another one.
I am now creating my own Wiki. I can say I am now wikismart. Ok not wikismart but wikilearner?
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