BCR's Shelly Drumm is talking about Social Software.
She asks: What do you think of when I say "social software"?
Answers:
- Young people
- MySpace
- YouTube
Great visual at http://xkcd.com/c256.html
The Machine is Us/ing Us (YouTube Video)
Web2.0 has made a lot of things different. It's scary all the new tools that are available out there.
Reading + Writing + Sharing = Fundamentals of Kindergarten.... and Web2.0
When we talk Web 2.0, we're talking about user-created content as a part of it. Look at Netscape home page from 10 years ago versus now. Today, there are options to add content, comments, stories, conversation.
What makes it all social?
- Meeting & sharing TOGETHER
- Making connections
- Commenting & messaging
- Social tools
Some tools as examples of Web2.0:
RSS - allows subsciption to your friends, videos, blogs, tags, photos, news
Some cool things of value to libraries:
- LibraryThing: Sharing books
- Flickr: Sharing photos
- YouTube: Sharing videos
- del.icio.us: Sharing bookmarks
- MySpace: sharing...everything
- Wikis/Blogs/Podcsat: Sharing words (written, spoken)
Interesting Note: Amazon added tagging, but it hasn't really taken off. Why? Theory: people will tag what they own (a la Library Thing). By using the tags in LibraryThing we can find out who else reads a particular author and, then, find out what other books they like. Readers Advisory via social networking.
Someone said: Amazon recently bought Shelfari.
del.icio.us - allows you to bookmark website. Very helpful especially when you don't always use the same computer when you are on the Web. You can tag the links. Helpful sometimes to save one and tag it "read me" to go back and read later. What are libraries doing w/ del.icio.us? Example: Seminole County Public Library (FL) is using it to share useful links for their users. You can import all your bookmarks from Firefox or Internet Explorer so it will start with all the bookmarks you already have.
Making friends online: Often called "contacts" or "buddies" or "friends" , etc.
You can follow people to see their photos, updates or whatever. It's not always reciprocal. People don't always have to friend you back.
YouTube & Commenting. Not only can you comment on a video, but some people choose to reponse WITH a video. Check out some "Response Videos"
MySpace: Interesting uses of it. Barack Obama has a MySpace. So does John McCain. So does the American Library Association. Hey, so does ICFL. Of cousre, so does BCR.
