web 2.0
This is a great video on understanding web 2.0
I came across this video on one of the art blogs I read. I think it applies equally well as a learning resource for understanding web 2.0. Explorations of mediated culture The machine is US/ing us
On Dan's Presentation last week
Oh man, I'm so bummed I missed this presentation. Meredith, I have really enjoyed all the speakers that you found for our class. I am really interested in possibly working in a special or corporate library because I know I would love the challenge of providing reference and research in a specialized setting.
Recommendation
I have been really fortunate to find this site and although I am not too deep into the reading, I believe it will be a great help with the coming social software paper.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
It is a collection of well cited essays on blogs and online community building. I found quite a bit of other stuff through the ACM Database (at the King Library) which Meredith suggested.
MySpace
Completed my MySpace page last night, but wanted to give it a bit to sink in and reflect before I posted to the board.
Widgetbox
This is so neat that I just had to share it. I was looking for a way to add a suitable RSS feed to myspace and came across this program that really rocks and works across many different platforms. Facebook, myspace you name it.
Wikipedia Thoughts
Wikipedia has proved to be a bit of a dilemma for me. I've swung back and forth on the issue so many times! I was definitely one of the later ones to get swept into the web 2.0 flood. I was in college when Myspace, Facebook, Wikipedia, and all of those things were really getting popular. But I didn't ever really want to explore. I was very "academic" in my pursuits, and when I wasn't working on papers and projects, I preferred playing mindless games on my computer over editing an encyclopedia, online or otherwise. All this to say, I hadn't even
SCELC, Ebsco, & OCLC
I went to SCELC today at Loyola and sat through presentations from OCLC and Ebsco. Since I have been enjoying the class so much my mind was focused on the applicability of these issues to these two tools which I spend so much time with.
OCLC discussed a new OPAC they are rolling out that can be combined with whatever system the library is currently using. This OPAC will have hard links and tags for delicious built in as well as promises for tagging etc.
University of Washington was the library used to display it.
Too Good Not to Share : School Libraries & 2.0
You’ll find something useful here even if you are not a school librarian. Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson were interviewed Tuesday on Women of Web 2.0 (WOW2). They shared their views on the 21st Century school library, the changing face of books & literacy, and more. You can listen to the recording on EdTechTalk
Thoughts on Week 6
I don’t know what I’ll do when I graduate. It is a great feeling to be studying things (such as social networking) that are happening now and that very relevant to librarians. Just today I read an article on the Yalsa journal about a place they had specifically for library students. I assumed it would be another listserv and I decided to join.
Social bookmarking and me
Delicious has definitely made my life easier. In my previous position, I worked in almost every aspect of the library from reference to children’s to circulation. It was very frustrating to be caught at the circ desk with a reference question when all my best resources were at another desk. Then I discovered delicious. This not only allowed me to access my bookmarks from any computer but now I could share these resources with my co-workers.
