A technology workshop presented to Vermont public librarians on July 22, 2009, at the Norwich Public Library in Norwich Vermont.

1. Web 2.0
Flickr
Blogs
Twitter
Wikis
Norwich Public Library, July 21, 2009

2. Most People Go
Online to Socialize
-- M o r e t h a n t w ic e a s ma ny
p e o p l e g o o n li n e t o s o c ia liz e
(8 1 % ) t h a n t o d o b u s in e s s
(3 9 % ) o r s h o p (3 1 % ).
-P e o p le s e e k e d u c a t io n a n d
e n t e r t a i n m e n t : m o s t p e o p le g o
o n lin e b o t h t o le a r n (8 8 % ) a n d
h a v e f u n (8 3 % ).
-- 7 2 % o f p e o p le g o o n lin e ju s t
t o b e c o m e p a r t o f a c o m m u n it y .
-- A lm o s t h a l f o f p e o p le (4 7 % )
g o o n lin e t o le a r n t o im p r o v e
t h e m s e lv e s a n d n e a r ly o n e -
t h ir d (3 1 % ) t o f in d s e lf - h e l p
e x p e rts o r b o o k s .
-- T h e d e s ir e t o le a r n d r i v e s
p e o p l e t o t h e In t e r n e t ; t o p
a r e a s a r e n e w s u b je c t s (6 8 % ),
t h e w o r ld (6 5 % ), a d is e a s e o r
c o n d it io n (6 1 % ), e a t in g
h e a lt h ie r (5 5 % ) a n d m a n a g in g
f i n a n c e s (3 7 % ).
-- Seniors are going online today for the same
reasons younger people are; to have fun (82%)
and to socialize (80%).
- More people go online to connect via a social
networking site (41%) than to post comments or from PR Agency Ruder Finn
opinions (34%).
- More men (42%) than women (36%) go online
to do business.
-55% of women go online to find venues for

3. • Photo sharing
web site (some
video too)
• Free for basic
accounts (upload 2 videos
and 100MB worth of photos each
calendar month.
• Upload,edit,
organize, share,
maps, create.

4. • Upload from your
• Organize-tag,
phone, desktop, or
create sets and
send by email collections
• Edit your photo— • Maps—share where
crop, eliminate red your photos are
eye, etc. taken
• Create stuff—
albums, order
prints, DVD’s
Go to: Brooks Memorial Library account

5. B LO G
S

6. B LO G
• S
“Weblog” is a type of website
usually maintained by an
individual where entries and
commentary are fairly quickly
done. Entries usually displayed in
reverse chronological order.
• Free web-based software
• Blogger, Wordpress

7. • Sign in with Google account
• Choose template
• Post entries ( HTML editor; spell check)
• Post photos or video
• Add labels or tags
• RSS feeds notify blog followers
• Post by phone or email
• Create team blog for collaboration
• 3rd party applications like Flickr, Library thing.
• to:Use hit counters and statistics like Google
Go Musings Vermont; Reference Librarian's Blog; Teen Brooks Blog
analytics.

8. • Twitter is a
microblog on
the web where
you have 140
characters to
say “what are
you doing
now.”

9. T w it t e r : A q u ic k
to u r
T w it t e r in P la in E n g lis h

10. • Feb 2009, 3rd
most used
social network.
Monthly growth
rate of 1382% A circa 2000 blueprint sketch by
Jack Dorsey, envisioning a SMS-
based social network.
"The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful,"
says Jonathan Zittrain, professor of Internet law at Harvard Law School.

11. • The rankings
as of January
2009

12. The Cons
Blogger Kathy Sierra explains in a post, Is Twitter Too Good?
Twitter scares me. For all its popularity, I see at least three issues:
• it's a near-perfect example of the psychological principle of intermittent variable reward, the key
addictive element of slot machines.
• The strong "feeling of connectedness" Twitterers get can trick the brain into thinking it's having a
meaningful social interaction, while another (ancient) part of the brain "knows" something crucial to
human survival is missing.
• Twitter is yet another--potentially more dramatic--contribution to the problems of always-on multi-
tasking ... you can't be Twittering (or emailing or chatting, of course) and simultaneously be in deep
thought and/or a flow state.

13. The Twitter Curve by
Kathy Sierra

14. OK, let’s go a twittering
http://www.twitter.com

15. Twitter apps
• Twitpic
Is a web based Twitter application that allows
the uploading of photo and/or video to
your tweet.
• Tweetdeck
Is a desktop application that allows you to fully
use the Twitter experience—uploading
photos; shortening URL’s;tracking
groups; tracking one twitter account;
tracking keywords. By using columns
across your screen it gives you different
slices of your Twitter environment.

16. Fu rth e r
re fe re n c e s
• F ly n n , M o n t a n a (2 0 0 9 -0 4 -0 8 ). " H O
• T w it t e r B a s ic s : H o w t o u s e t w it t e
• H u b S p o t ' s In b o u n d In t e r n e t M a r k e

17. W ik i
• Hawaiian for
“fast”
• A web site that
uses wiki
software to create
interlinked web
pages quickly

18. W ik i
S u rv e y

19. W ik i
What does a wiki allow you
to do?
In v it e s u s e r s t o
c o lla b o r a t e
A llo w s u s e r s t o c r e a t e
lin k s b e t w e e n
s u b je c t s o r t o p ic s
E a s e o f c r e a t io n o r
e d it in g

20. W ik i T r u s t
Wiki edits.
U s e r s c a n s e e h is t o r y o f
e d it s in a n a r t ic le
E d it o r s t h r o u g h t h e
r e v is io n h is t o r y c a n
r e s t o r e a n e d it if a n
u n a c c e p t a b le o n e h a s
b e e n e n te re d
F o r p u b lic w ik is c r it ic s
s t a t e t h a t m a lic io u s
a n d f a ls e in f o r m a t o n
c a n b e e n te re d .
S u p p o rte rs s a y th a t
t h e c o m m u n it y o f
u s e r s w ill c o r r e c t t h is .

21. W ik i
What are some real life
wiki applications
locally?
W ik is a r e u s e d t o
e n a b le c o m m u n it y
in v o lv e m e n t , e . g . ,
T h e B r a t t le b o r o B r a i n T r u s t

22. W ik i
E x a m p le
Use at Brooks Library
W ik is a r e u s e d t o m a n a g e
k n o w le d g e
in o r g a n iz a t io n s , e . g . ,
B M L R e f e r e n c e w ik i
C re a te d a s re a d y re fe re n c e
to o l
b y L ib r a r y S c h o o l s t u d e n t
J e s s ic a
W e it z .
U s e d t o t r a c k B r a t t le b o r o
Are a re s o u rc e s
s u c h a s h e a lt h , h o t lin e s , T o w n
in f o ,
c h ild r e n ’ s s e r v ic e s , e t c
S ta ff w h o w o rk o n th e
re fe re n c e d e s k h a s
ac c e s s
B r o o k s M e m o r ia l L ib r a r y R e f e r e n c e W ik i

23. Web 2.0 Tag Cloud
From Wikipedia (accessed on July 14, 2009)

24. Web 2.0