LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Spring 2010)

This week, you'll be learning about wikis and social bookmarking, but this is something we'll be exploring in greater depth in the subsequent two weeks as well when we explore internal collaboration and collecting knowledge from our users. Both tools are instrumental for those tasks. I plan to cover social bookmarking and tagging in depth in my lecture two weeks from now on user-generated content, so this week I will focus my lecture on wikis.

Why Wikis are Amazing

This week, we will be looking at the creation of video content online, including vodcasting and screencasting. These have become increasingly popular outreach tools in libraries, so it's definitely a good idea to be well-versed in their use.

Vodcasting

If any chapter of my book is evidence that technology is constantly changing, it is the chapter on Social Networking Software. Things have changed so much since I wrote that chapter in 2006. Even between writing it and sending it to my publisher three months later, I had to make substantial changes as so much had changed with Facebook and MySpace.

I'm writing this lecture under the assumption that you already know what Twitter is. If not, take a look at Mashable's Twitter guidebook before reading this to get some background.

Online identity is something many of us are concerned about as individuals. I have an uncommon name, so nearly everything that comes up in a Google Search for Meredith Farkas is about me. For someone who doesn't know me well -- maybe a person who is considering taking my class or offering me a job -- a Google search may be the way that they develop their impression of me. So it's important to me to keep track of what comes up in that search and what people are saying about me online.

Please note that Part 1 of your lecture is on the Week 1 page and is a video lecture.