19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 1 This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Photo: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1170467 Copyright PAUL FARMER and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Web 2.0 - the truth behind the hype: What is web 2.0 and what isn’t it? Karen Blakeman, www.rba.co.uk, karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk www.twitter.com/karenblakeman, www.slideshare.net/karenblakeman

What does Web 2.0 tools mean to you? 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 2

Ditch the Web 2.0 label! Think about….. 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 3 Sharing knowledge with colleagues Keeping up to date with new developments A more efficient way of collaborating on articles, documents, policies, contracts, conference programmes, training materials A quick and easy way of providing information to your users and clients through different platforms, applications and devices Establishing new contacts Reputation monitoring – what are people saying about your organisation, its services, its products? Marketing and promoting your organisation’s and your own skills and expertise Moving, re-using and republishing “stuff”

RSS for publishing, re-distribution, sharing RSS feed creation in CMS Feeds automatically generated by blogs, Flickr, Slideshare, YouTube,Twitter, publishers RSS feed writers e.g. FeedForAll.com, RSSPublisher.com Add RSS feeds to your blog, iGoogle, Netvibes, Facebook etc using widgets, gadgets, applications, ‘stuff’ Convert RSS feeds to HTML for your web site for example Feedburner http://feedburner.google.com/ Combine feeds using for example Yahoo Pipes, http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Friendfeed http://www.friendfeed.com/ 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 4

Feeds for keeping up to date 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 5

Set up a start page pulling your services, content and alerts together http://www.netvibes.com/ukeig1 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 6

Add news and updates to your web site, blog, Facebook page, LinkedIn etc! 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 7

Promote your skills and expertise http://ergobalance.blogspot.com/ 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 8

19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 9 Blogpulse Trends – companies, products, reputation Shows how often your search terms occur in postings – can compare up to three searches

Twitter for news, keeping up with colleagues, events 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 10

Reputation monitoring 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 11

Flickr.com 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 12

Add presentations to your web site, blog, Facebook, LinkedIn 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 13

Advertise your services: BestforBusiness Birmingham 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXs1scj9Xx4

Friendfeed Combine feeds for blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Slideshare, Library Thing, LinkedIn, Facebook, alerts …….. 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 15

Wikis UKeiG Web 2.0 blog – Wiki category http://ukeig.wordpress.com/category/wikis/ Wikis that work in the real world http://tinyurl.com/a32rnf Wikis for training materials and conference organising http://swashford.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/wiki-wonders/ Wikis for compiling subject guides http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2008/01/09/we-have-wiki/ A free surgical encyclopaedia for surgeons and their patients http://wikisurgery.com/ Using a Wiki for an Intranet - Janssen-Cilag, switched from a static HTML site to using a wiki. http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/09/18/enterprise-wiki-increases-collaboration-and-connections-at-janssen-cilag/ 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 16

http://interlend.pbwiki.com/ 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 17

Social bookmarking Social Bookmarking as a Knowledge Management Strategy, Robert Berkman, The Information Advisor Vol 11 (1), March 2007, Knowledge Management Supplement http://www.informationadvisor.com/IA_KM_March07.pdf Web hosted services Diigo http://www.diigo.com/ Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us/ Connotea http://www.connotea.org/ 2Collab (Elsevier) http://www.2collab.com/ 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 18

Geograph British Isles 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 19

http://tinyurl.com/lyosy4 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 20

#uksnow Tweets - http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/ 9.55 am 2nd February 2009 Google Earth & Twitter hashtag #uksnow Twitterers asked to include first half of post code and give the snowfall marks out of ten e.g. #uksnow RG4 3/10 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 21

CABI Alerts - Monitoring Worldwide SWINE FLU Information http://www.netvibes.com/cabialerts (maps no longer updated) 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 22

Personal and professional networks 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 23

Which collaborative tools will work for you? 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 24 Feedback from participants at a Web 2.0 workshop. The same one day workshop was delivered to three separate groups of people (mostly public sector and academic librarians) over a two week period

Can anything go wrong? Of course it can! Carry out a risk assessment – what would the consequences be if… Brodkin, Jon. "Gartner: Seven cloud-computing security risks” http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/07/02/Gartner_Seven_cloudcomputing_security_risks_1.html 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 25

It can be exciting! 19 September 2009 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk 26